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Gregg Rock interviews George Barlow in April 2022.
GR: In your experience, do you find that organizations understand the value of Business Architecture, or is it a bit of a learning curve?
SL: The standard consulting response is that it depends. Some to, and some don’t. From what I’ve seen, organizations that are rich in workflows and in business roles, such as insurers, claims adjusters, lenders, transportation companies, they tend to have a greater appreciation for what Business Architecture can provide. Now, some of them start with a business reference architecture and tailor it to fit their way of doing business, others develop their own business process models usually, but not always, in a top down fashion.
GR: What do you think the future holds for Business Architecture and what do we have to do to stay in lockstep with the future needs of the organization and the advances we’re seeing in technology?
SL: In one of my articles published on the Business Architecture Institute’s website, I was making the case that the traditional methods that make up the standard Business Architecture canon, they tend to assume a slow changing, relatively predictable, business environment. A business environment where you don’t have major shocks to the system, major external or internal upheavals, essentially an environment that can wait for the business architect to do the architecting.
GR: What originally attracted you to the Business Architecture discipline, and what does Business Architecture mean for you?
SL: Well Gregg, to me gravitating towards Business Architecture has really been a natural evolution. My career started with an education in computer science, followed by a few years of software development, and from there I quickly realized that analyzing and distilling the customers requirements was a lot more interesting than coding the spec. And then, moreover, understanding the why behind the requirements, and that the needs that drove the requirements was even more interesting. Being able to correlate those needs with the customers business mission, business processes, supporting system, and data architecture while having that bird’s eye view of the whole texture of the organization was extremely compelling.
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.
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.
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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:
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.
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 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.
Register for this webcast to find out what the top ten fool proof digital mini journeys are.
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You're looking for a way to improve your process improvement skills, but you're not sure where to start.
Earning your Business Process Management Specialist (BPMS) Certificate will give you the competitive advantage you need in today's world. Our courses help you deliver faster and makes projects easier.
Your skills will include building hierarchical process models, using tools to analyze and assess process performance, defining critical process metrics, using best practice principles to redesign processes, developing process improvement project plans, building a center of excellence, and establishing process governance.
The BPMS Certificate is the perfect way to show employers that you are serious about business process management. With in-depth knowledge of process improvement and management, you'll be able to take your business career to the next level.
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