February 26, 2009 – [PR2WEB] - IRM announces upcoming Business Process Management Workshops and Seminars:

Enterprise Level Business Process Management

9-10 March 2009

This seminar, presented by Roger Burlton, a BPM Pioneer, provides a comprehensive examination of the state of the art in Enterprise-level Business Process Management (BPM). It addresses innovations in ways of managing processes as assets of the enterprise. It focuses on maintaining the critical role that processes play in the alignment of the strategic objectives of the organization with what people do every day. It is geared to those with or without process experience seeking to learn a set of pragmatic practices packaged into a reusable BPM way of working strategically and tactically. The facilitated workshop sessions are highly interactive and ensure experience-sharing with other delegates. Built on lessons learnt, both good and bad, from real companies, this seminar and workshop provides you practices to deal with the real and tough challenges you will face. Delegates will benefit from the experience and wisdom of the world leader on the topic. Roger Burlton’s book, Business Process Management: Profiting from Success will also be provided to all who attend.

Delegates will learn:

· Understand what’s new in BPM practices and how these may work for you strategically

· Be able to apply enterprise and process level techniques that are practical

· How to set up an internal pragmatic BPM Centre of Expertise

· Learn how to sell the Enterprise BPM value proposition and gain cross-organization acceptance

· Be able to develop a process architecture that is the foundation for planning, budgeting, organization design, compliance, change management, SOA and the introduction of breakthrough BPMS technologies

· See how to institute day-today process management and governance for continued progress

Business Process Modelling, Analysis and Design

11-13 March 2009, 2-4 December 2009, London

This workshop oriented session is like no other session of its type offered anywhere in the world. This course is unique in that it is built around a case study developed by the participants in team workshops. Consequently, participants leave with real world knowledge that can be used for accelerating their own projects. It is the longest running session on process modeling, analysis and design in the world. It specifically addresses the tactical aspects of process improvement project work.     Topics include Introduction to Business Process Management; Define Process Project; Capturing Process Knowledge; Modelling Current Process; Measuring Processes; Analyzing Processes; Creating New Processes; Designing New Processes; Validating New Processes; Selection of Tools.  Workshop  will  be featured throughout the course.

Delegates will learn:

• The importance of properly managing the "people" aspect of process redesign
• Critical Success Factors for process improvement
• Practical process modeling and analysis and design techniques
• How to avoid creeping project scope and analysis paralysis
• The recommended tools currently available
• Tips and Techniques for avoiding common pitfalls in process improvement projects

Business Process Management Conference Europe 2009

28-30 September 2009, London

This conference will discuss what it takes to align strategy, processes and services.  The emphasis will be on the practical aspects of making BPM work, on both initiating and sustaining BPM.  The conference will consist of pre-conference workshops and 3 conference tracks.  There will be novice and advanced practitioner sessions.