As one of the largest BPM conferences in the world, the Gartner BPM Summit offers objective advice and insights into some of the latest issues, disciplines and trends emerging in the BPM community. With the Gartner BPM Summit coming up next week in Baltimore, we thought we’d take this opportunity to pull together a quick guide of some must see sessions.
Gartner Keynote: The 2011 Gartner Scenario: Critical Capabilities That Create and Sustain Business Value
We all know that there is an alarming disconnect between business and IT. For some time, the two groups have struggled to see eye-to-eye to deliver value for their process improvement initiatives. In this session, Ken McGee plans to dive into the most important capabilities business process improvement teams should leverage and how they will evolve over time.
Orientation to Business Process Management
For those of you that are new to BPM, this session is a must! You will learn everything you need to know about BPM, from terminology to key perspectives and major trends to concepts and decision frameworks.
The BPM Scenario: From Operational Excellence to Resilient Processes
In this session, you will discover how BPM technologies move past the traditional focus on operational excellence and dive deeper into adaptive processes. Janelle Hill will discuss why BPM is more important than ever and the strategic reasons why organizations should start moving from operational excellence to more adaptive processes.
Leveraging a COE to Drive Better Business Process Improvements
Organizations that implement a process Center of Excellence (COE) have a higher rate and degree of success for their business improvement programs. In this roundtable, Kevin Haugh, vice president of product marketing and management for Metastorm, will lead an interactive discussion on how Process Centers of Excellence enable organizations to better manage, streamline and standardize their BPM projects by applying best practices and prior lessons learned around requirement discovery techniques, project success metrics, methodologies and team makeup.
Advancing BPM Maturity
Learn how to assess and advance your BPM maturity in this session hosted by Janelle Hill. You will discover what BPM maturity really means, where your organization falls on the BPM maturity spectrum, and how you can advance your BPM maturity.
Selling BPM to Your Organization
Getting everyone onboard for a large BPM project can be difficult. In this session hosted by Janelle Hill, you discuss who the right people are that you should select for your BPM planning team and how you can gain buy-in and support for launching your BPM initiative.
Using BPM as a True Business Process Improvement Platform
In this session, Metastorm customer Manoj Kumar, director of enterprise application development for AmerisourceBergen, a Fortune 25 pharmaceuticals company, will share his experience around how AmerisourceBergen has successfully evolved its use of BPM from a proof-of-concept pilot to a full-scale, enterprise business process improvement platform. AmerisourceBergen has deployed more than 200 processes in Metastorm BPM and is also using BPM to support broader business transformation initiatives and is continuing to leverage BPM to drive enterprise-wide change, augmenting and extending its SAP system and critical legacy and enterprise applications, and govern numerous cross-functional and customer-facing processes.
Social BPM: A Tweet Size Overview
It seems that everyone is talking about Social BPM, but there’s still a lot of confusion about its value. Elise Olding will explore some of the key trends that are driving social technologies in organizations today, how they are advancing, and how Social BPM differs across business and IT.
Real-World Innovation: Great Solutions Driven by BPM Technology
This panel of the leading BPM solution providers, including Sandra Moran, director of product marketing for Metastorm have an interactive dialogue on the different innovative solutions organizations are achieving leveraging business process management technology.
There’s so much to learn at next week’s Gartner BPM Summit. Visit their website today to register for any of these sessions at http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/na/business-process/.
Be sure to stop by Metastorm’s booth (Booth #5) to view a product demonstration or speak to a representative. If you’d like to schedule a meeting during the conference, stop by the 1:1 scheduling booth or contact Wendy Werve, director, analyst relations at wwerve@opentext.com
Don’t forget to follow the event on Twitter with the hashtag #BPM11
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