Gregg Rock

June 25, 2003

Professional Member
Associate Corporate Membership

Secondary Topic:
Business Architecture (BA)
Digital Transformation (DX)
Agile BPM (AB)
Agile Business Analysis (ABA)
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Customer Experience
Operational Excellence (OPEX)
Organizational Change Management (OCM)
Robotic Processing Automation (RPA)

Bio:

With over 25 years experience building and creating professional communities, Gregg Rock is recognized as an industry leader in professional training and education vital to helping enterprise organizations support their transformation initiatives. His work has been recognized in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine, Financial Times, CIO Magazine, and New York Times.

Throughout his career Gregg has developed communities, hosted executive networking forums and the formation of advisory boards on topics ranging from IT security and outsourcing to multimedia and Y2K, but is most widely associated with his accomplishments in the areas of Business Process Management (BPM), Digital Business (DBiz), Business Architecture (BA), and Cloud Computing.

BPM in particular is a widely accepted approach for designing enterprise organizational and information systems. This focus on process-related skills is creating demand for BPM content, collaboration, and training resources by corporations—a niche Gregg has spent years to fill.

In 1997, Gregg founded BrainStorm Group and the network of BrainStorm Communities, consisting of discipline-specific web portals for BPM, BA, and SOA practitioners to network and receive education, professional training online and through live in-person events. This has enabled over 100,000 practitioners from over 125 countries to collaborate and share best practices, online and face-to-face.

BrainStorm Communities feature a comprehensive suite of member services including newsletters, discussion groups, blogs, virtual and live events, live and online training, certificate programs, and professional certification.

During his tenure, Gregg has produced more than 100 industry events in North America, South America, EMEA, and Australia attended by over 300,000 professionals.

He led the development of the Certified Business Process Management Professional program. Harnessing the collective intelligence of leading BPM subject matter experts, this certification establishes an objective evaluation of a BPM professional’s knowledge, skill, and ability.

He recently led the launch of BrainStorm's newest Community, focused on Digital Business and Transformation - DBizInstitute.org.

Gregg also earned his private pilot license in 1991 and remains an active member of Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA). When not flying, he’s active in his community and enjoys coaching little league, soccer, and lacrosse for his children.

Articles by: Gregg Rock

What is Business Architecture?

Author(s):

Gregg Rock

Editor & Founder, BPMInstitute.org, BAInstitute.org and DBIZInstitute.org

Edward Hunt

Faculty Member, BAInstitute.org and President, Hunt Consulting Group, LLC

Gregg Rock interviews Ed Hunt in November 2021.

GR: Ed, how would you explain business architecture to somebody that’s just coming, brand new, to the space?

EH: That’s a great question. The BA Institute defines business architecture in a very important way: It’s a holistic view of the enterprise, it’s not just the one part, but the whole thing. And that view integrates and aligns capabilities and the BA Institute’s defines capabilities as people, process, tools, and information.

What’s important about business architecture is that it uses models and blueprints of the business to facilitate decision making and help an organization take their strategy from vision, all the way through to execution.

Business architecture also enables the key stakeholders across the organization, at all levels, to align the purpose, mission, vision, strategy, and execution and the models are the tools that make that happen.

Agile BPM: How to apply Agile Concepts to Business Process Management and Business Analysis

Speaker(s):

Gregg Rock

Editor & Founder, BPMInstitute.org, BAInstitute.org and DBIZInstitute.org

Joanne Carswell

Faculty Member, BPMInstitute.org, Agile SME

Join Gregg Rock and our lead Agile instructor, Joanne Carswell, as they introduce a new methodology – Agile BPM.

This webcast discusses five agile concepts that can be directly applied to process improvement and management as well as to business analysis initiatives. We’ll discuss how to adapt these agile concepts to provide value more frequently to the process users. You will leave this session with tangible action items as well as a better understanding of agile. A more in-depth view of this concept – infusing BPM with agile – may be found in the new curriculum offered by BPMInstitute.org.We will also provide a brief overview of each of the courses in our Agile BPM Certificate Program:

Agile Methodology for BPM: Discusses how to apply agile concepts, principles, and standards for members of Business Process Management including analysts, project managers, and leaders. Providing value more frequently in BPM is emphasized.

Distance Learning for Professional Development

Speaker(s):

Gregg Rock

Editor & Founder, BPMInstitute.org, BAInstitute.org and DBIZInstitute.org

The Distance Learning Leader

BPMInstitute.org has been delivering online training for more than 15 years for individuals and groups. We can even provide training to groups across multiple time zones and around the world.

We’ve put together this short webcast to help you understand all of your options for online training.

View the webcast now >

Download the pdf (but you miss out on the audio)

(Keep an eye out for a special discount on the last slide.)

Automating Daily Tasks With Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

Speaker(s):

Gregg Rock

Editor & Founder, BPMInstitute.org, BAInstitute.org and DBIZInstitute.org

Clay Richardson

Faculty Member, DBizInstitute.org and Co-Founder, Digital Fast Forward

Cornelius Pone

Faculty Member, DBizInstitute.org and Co-Founder, Digital Fast Forward

Join Gregg Rock, Clay Richardson and Cornelius Pone as they provide you an overview of where and when you can implement Robotic Process Automation (RPA) as well as demonstrate an actual bot automating an arduous task.

RPA is something you should consider if you are wanting to reduce risk, redundancy and errors and increase productivity and compliance by automating daily tasks such as the following:

Extract and enter form data
Log into multiple systems
Download reports
Change passwords

What is RPA
Robotic process automation (RPA) is the application of technology that automates workflows of administrative tasks and processes, leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to complete and manage more complex work and tasks.

Find out how to build your own bots at the end of the webcast.

Meet the Author: Business Architecture – The Missing Link

Speaker(s):

Gregg Rock

Editor & Founder, BPMInstitute.org, BAInstitute.org and DBIZInstitute.org

Bernard Gagnon

President, ASATE Group

Pierre Hadaya

Vice-president, ASATE Group

History has shown that having a competitive advantage is critical to the success and long-term viability of all organizations. To create and sustain such an advantage, organizations must formulate a winning strategy, surpass competitors at implementing and executing it, and excel at continuously adapting it in response to internal and external events. Although numerous best practices have been adopted by organizations over the years to help them succeed in their strategic endeavors, 50 to 90% of strategic endeavors are still considered failures. That is why we have spent 5 years devising an innovative approach to help organizations address the causes of the difficulties they face during their strategic efforts.

The Future of Digital Business

Speaker(s):

Gregg Rock

Editor & Founder, BPMInstitute.org, BAInstitute.org and DBIZInstitute.org

James Sinur

CEO, Fleuresque

The top three digital destinations are new business opportunities, better customer loyalty and better business results.

No organization is too big to fail. The avg tenure of a S&P 500 company is forecast to shrink to 14 years by 2026. Large companies are feeling the pressure from customers and competitors to “go digital” more and more everyday.

It starts with digital mini journeys.

Essential Skills for Digital Business Leaders

Speaker(s):

Gregg Rock

Editor & Founder, BPMInstitute.org, BAInstitute.org and DBIZInstitute.org

Andrew Spanyi

Faculty Member, DBizInstitute.org and Managing Director, Spanyi International

Clay Richardson

Faculty Member, DBizInstitute.org and Co-Founder, Digital Fast Forward

Cornelius Pone

Faculty Member, DBizInstitute.org and Co-Founder, Digital Fast Forward

A successful digital business initiative relies upon adopting agile principles, an enduring focus on improving customer experience and executing programs with a business process based view with enabling digital information technology.

Measuring what matters to customers and challenging the current operating model of the business are two important characteristics of digitally mature organizations.

Join Gregg Rock and our leading digital business experts as they discuss the critical skills needed in your digital transformation initiatives:

Introduction to Digital Business
- by Andrew Spanyi
Design Thinking Applied
- by Clay Richardson
Robotic Process Automation
- by Cornelius Pone
Digital Customer Experience
- by Andrew Spanyi

Meet the Author: Dr. Mathias Kirchmer, High Performance Through Business Process Management

Speaker(s):

Gregg Rock

Editor & Founder, BPMInstitute.org, BAInstitute.org and DBIZInstitute.org

Dr. Mathias Kirchmer

Managing Director | Co-CEO, BPM-D

Strategy Execution in a Digital World

This management book presents value-driven business process management as a successful discipline to turn strategy into people-and technology-based execution, quickly and at minimal risk. It shows how to achieve high performance successfully in a digital business environment.

Career Options for Business Analysts and Project Managers

Speaker(s):

Gregg Rock

Editor & Founder, BPMInstitute.org, BAInstitute.org and DBIZInstitute.org

Andrew Spanyi

Faculty Member, DBizInstitute.org and Managing Director, Spanyi International

Linda Finley

Faculty Member, BAInstitute.org and Architect and Owner, Leadership Advantage

Joanne Carswell

Faculty Member, BPMInstitute.org, Agile SME

We live in times where the only constant is change. Efforts to shift to Digital Business and transformations are underway everywhere. It’s no wonder that many of our members, especially analysts and project/portfolio managers, are trying to figure out where they’ll go next in their careers and what types of skills they’ll need to have continued success.

This webcast brings together three preeminent subject matter experts to provide you with insight into three disciplines that we believe have staying power and are potentially a good fit for you and your career.

For each topic, we discuss:

What to Look for in 2017?

Author(s):

Gregg Rock

Editor & Founder, BPMInstitute.org, BAInstitute.org and DBIZInstitute.org

Andrew Spanyi

Faculty Member, DBizInstitute.org and Managing Director, Spanyi International

According to a recent article in Forbes, there’s a high level of consistency on macro technology trend predictions for 2017 by organizations such as Gartner, Forrester, Deloitte, Accenture, and McKinsey. That’s not surprising as “digital transformation” is pretty much the leading buzzword in today’s corporate lexicon and executives scramble to get up to speed on related concepts such as social, mobile, cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, cognitive computing, analytics, and big data.