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

Business Architecture Curriculum

Speaker(s):

Gregg Rock

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

BPM Salary Survey – A comparative analysis

Author(s):

Andrew Spanyi

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

Gregg Rock

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

A must read for business analysts, business process analysts, business process managers, business process designers and business architects.

This BPM Salary Survey report outlines a regional comparison across the USA, Canada and EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). It is based upon the data collected in the BPM 2015 Salary Survey conducted by BPMInstitute.org which represented the first such survey and formed the baseline for our future research in this area.

Business Transformation & Process Management

Speaker(s):

Gregg Rock

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

Marc Kerremans

Research Director, Gartner

Organizations are undergoing major transformations – to shift to digital business, become more customer-centric, and keep pace with regulatory changes. Any transformation impacts business processes, often requiring dramatic changes to how people work. Yet over 70% of transformation initiatives fail. Process management practitioners can change that and directly contribute to the success of their organization’s initiative by applying the latest process thinking, techniques and technologies to innovate and drive change.

Listen to Marc Kerremans discuss what you’ll learn at Gartner’s London Business Transformation & Process Management Summit.

Transforming Business Through Strategic Process Management

Speaker(s):

Gregg Rock

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

Janelle Hill

VP & Distinguished Analyst, BPM Research, Gartner Inc.

A recent Gartner poll of their client base found that 80% of public and private sector companies say they are undertaking major business transformation due to:

desire to shift to digital business
desire to become more customer/constituent-centric
perennial activities to keep pace with regulatory changes

More than 70% of these initiatives fail to deliver the desired outcome.

Process management practitioners can defy these odds by applying the latest process and change management thinking, techniques and technologies.

BPM Outlook: Gartner Outlines 2015 Trends

Speaker(s):

Gregg Rock

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

Janelle Hill

VP & Distinguished Analyst, BPM Research, Gartner Inc.

Digital Business: From Process Improvement to Driving Big Change

Facing continual digital disruption, companies are rethinking their business models and reinventing their processes to transform business operations for the digital age.

Traditional BPM has driven tremendous efficiencies and cost reductions. Now the challenge is to apply BPM to drive growth.
Key challenges are:

What Skills are Needed for BPM Success?

Author(s):

Gregg Rock

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

Andrew Spanyi

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

One of the most frequently asked questions (FAQs) on BPM involves the skills needed for BPM success. While most people understand the importance of modeling skills, there’s a lot more involved in succeeding with BPM and it goes beyond skills or aptitude to mental models or attitude.

Earlier this year, Gartner identified 15 skills critical to the success of any BPM project. As depicted in Figure 1, they elected to group these skills into three types of critical competency: transformational, operational and technical.

Figure 1. Top 15 Business Process Management Skills[i]

Meet the Author: Shelley Sweet, renown BPM expert and author of The BPI Blueprint

Speaker(s):

Gregg Rock

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

Shelley Sweet

Faculty Member, BPMInstitute.org and President, i4 Process

The BPI Blueprint provides you with a detailed plan of action to create results the first time, inspire leaders of business processes, and build invigorated skilled teams. So if you’re looking for a simple, no nonsense, guide to help you develop and manage effective Business Process Improvement projects, regardless of your experience level, you’ve got the right book.

In this conversation we will explore why Shelly wrote the book, how it’s different from other books in the field, what you’ll learn from the book, and how you can use its practical guides to make your projects easier and more successful.

We’ll talk about the audience for the book (it’s for more than BPM practitioners), and specific topics that can help your BPI projects, including:

Getting Started

Gartner Outlines Transition to Digital Business

Speaker(s):

Gregg Rock

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

Janelle Hill

VP & Distinguished Analyst, BPM Research, Gartner Inc.

Digital business promises to be a massive disruption to all industries. Practitioners will need to reinvent core operational processes for the digital industrial economy. What are the forces driving digital business disruption? How do you deal with digital business? Janelle Hill shares Gartner’s perspective on Process Reinvention, steps that practitioners should take to capitalize on Digital Business and Business Moments and a sneak preview of major themes that will be a part of Gartner’s BPM Summits in 2014.

Attend this webcast to learn:

State of Business Decision Management & Decision Modeling

Speaker(s):

Gregg Rock

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

James Taylor

Faculty Member, BPMInstitute.org and CEO and Principal Consultant, Decision Management Solutions

Business Decision Management is an approach that allows you to take advantage of powerful technologies, particularly business rules management systems and predictive analytics. Applying decision management allows you to develop agile, analytic and adaptive systems that deliver significant business ROI. In this webcast, hear James Taylor, CEO of Decision Management Solutions and Editorial Director for Business Decision Management at BPMInstitute.org, introduce Business Decision Management. He’ll outline key concepts and technologies describe the kinds of decisions to focus on, outline the value proposition for business rules management systems and introduce the new Decision Model and Notation standard and its role in developing decision models alongside your process models.