Gregg Rock

Member since: June 25, 2003

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.

Company: DBizInstitute.org, BPMInstitute.org & BAInstitute.org

Job Title: Editor & Founder

Other Interests:

Business Process Management (BPM)

Business Architecture (BA)

Agile Business Analysis (ABA)

Analytics/Big Data

Application Protocol Interface (API)

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Cloud Computing

Customer Experience

Design Thinking

Internet of Things (IoT)

Mobile/Social

Operational Excellence (OPEX)

Organizational Change Management (OCM)

Robotic Processing Automation (RPA)

Web Services / SOA

Business Decision Management (BDM) / Business Rules (BR)

Articles by: Gregg Rock

Automating Daily Tasks With Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

Speaker(s):

Gregg Rock

Editor & Founder, DBizInstitute.org, BPMInstitute.org & BAInstitute.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, DBizInstitute.org, BPMInstitute.org & BAInstitute.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, DBizInstitute.org, BPMInstitute.org & BAInstitute.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, DBizInstitute.org, BPMInstitute.org & BAInstitute.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, DBizInstitute.org, BPMInstitute.org & BAInstitute.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, DBizInstitute.org, BPMInstitute.org & BAInstitute.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, DBizInstitute.org, BPMInstitute.org & BAInstitute.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.

Case Study: Business Architecture at United Airlines

Speaker(s):

Gregg Rock

Editor & Founder, DBizInstitute.org, BPMInstitute.org & BAInstitute.org

Jeff Scott

President, Business Innovation Partners

Diane LeBeau

Director Business Architecture, United Airlines

Launching a business architecture program is challenging. Culture, politics, and even our own thinking present significant challenges. Though the challenges are great, the benefits are even greater. Organizations struggling to realize their goals and move their companies forward are in desperate need of the solutions business architecture offers. This webcast features two industry experts who will share their insights into the world of Business Architecture, including the challenges, the opportunities and the road ahead.

Business Architecture Curriculum

Speaker(s):

Gregg Rock

Editor & Founder, DBizInstitute.org, BPMInstitute.org & BAInstitute.org

Linda Finley

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

Patrick Salaski

Global Business Architecture Practice Leader, Medtronic, PLC

Significant Updates Included In Latest Release of Core Courses

Most new business architecture (BA) teams jump right into defining business architecture models and frameworks. They spend incredibly little time defining the practice itself, what they want it to be, and how they are going to drive results. Yet this is where the challenge is.

Join Gregg Rock and two senior BA instructors, Linda Finley and Pat Salaski, as they discuss the objectives and unique value proposition of each of the core BA courses you need to get your practice off the ground and ensure long-term success.

The BA curriculum is designed specifically for individuals and organizations seeking to establish a standard BA training roadmap for their BA practice.

Making the case for OpEx and BPM

Speaker(s):

Gregg Rock

Editor & Founder, DBizInstitute.org, BPMInstitute.org & BAInstitute.org

Marvin Wurtzel

Faculty Member, BPMInstitute.org and Principal Consultant, Marvin M. Wurtzel & Associates, Inc.

The integration of Operational Excellence, which relies on a proven, systematic set of tools in Lean Six Sigma, and Business Process Management (BPM), which relies on a systemic view and a technology enabled approach is likely to create greater value for both customers and the company. The integration and consolidation of these two approaches to process improvement will not only identify and eliminate waste, it will also align and better utilize information systems, promote cross departmental collaboration and keep the customer front and center throughout.