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

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.

BPM Outlook: Gartner Outlines 2013 Trends

Speaker(s):

Gregg Rock

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

Janelle Hill

VP & Distinguished Analyst, BPM Research, Gartner Inc.

BPM is more important today than ever before. Only the most agile enterprise stands a chance in today’s constantly-changing business environment. Many are struggling, even more are falling behind. Janelle Hill shares Gartner’s perspective on the top BPM trends and opportunities for 2013.

Janelle will also share’s the results of a Gartner survey in which chief-level executives identified the approaches they are using to achieve their business objectives.

Learn how leading BPM teams are:

Faster Cheaper Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done

Speaker(s):

Gregg Rock

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

In Faster Cheaper Better Hammer and Hershman study both the successes and the failures of many companies—both what they had done and not done—to identify where they had run aground or what had made their efforts bear fruit. These in-depth case studies of Hammer and Company clients who used process methods include:

Combining Cloud, SOA, BPM and Rules to Create Break-Through Solutions

Speaker(s):

Gregg Rock

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

Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a hosted service over the Internet i.e. ‘the cloud’. The goal of cloud computing is to provide easy, scalable access to computing resources and IT services.

Enterprises large and small are drawn by the advantages of cloud, resulting in very low barriers to entry and exit and high agility.

Talent Development and Training Strategies: Cost Effective Training Solutions For A Challenging Economy

Speaker(s):

Gregg Rock

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

Does your staff need training… Are looking to spread BPM education throughout your company…Are you considering a continuous process improvement initiative…but you have the “can’t travel” budget blues?

Join BPMInstitute.org’s Founder & Editor, Gregg Rock, for an executive overview of cost-effective Training strategies already being employed by other members.

During this Round Table, you will learn how to:

Provide training for your staff at a fraction of the cost of traditional Face-to-Face training
Increase your employees options for receiving the training needed to become mo

Does your staff need training… Are looking to spread BPM education throughout your company…Are you considering a continuous process improvement initiative…but you have the “can’t travel” budget blues?

Which BPMS is Right for You?

Speaker(s):

Gregg Rock

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

Over the past 12 months, we reviewed 11 leading BPM Suites using a common analytical framework, and published the results using a common outline as The BPMS Report series, available for free from BPMInstitute.org. Based on that research, we now offer a comparative scoring of these offerings. Each BPM Suite was rated for both human-centric and integration-centric processes, and the human-centric evaluation was further broken out into two subclasses, production workflow and case management.

Seeing the World from a Process Point of View

Author(s):

Gregg Rock

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

Simon Hayward is chief of research for software and a Gartner fellow emeritus. With an interest in the relationship of business processes, software applications and software infrastructure, he oversees research in the software sector and develops integrative activities between research areas. He will deliver the featured analyst keynote address at the Business Process Management Conference in June in San Francisco.

Enabling the Process-Driven Agile Enterprise

Speaker(s):

Gregg Rock

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

Tom Dwyer

Editorial Director and current Faculty Member, BPMInstitute.org

What do Business Process Management, Service-Oriented Architecture, Business Architecture, Business Rules and Organizational Performance all have in common? Well, besides the obvious…

BPMInstitute.org and SOAInstitute.org research shows that companies are planning to marshal these technologies and methodologies together into a comprehensive strategy, platform and discipline.

What do Business Process Management, Service-Oriented Architecture, Business Architecture, Business Rules and Organizational Performance all have in common? Well, besides the obvious…

BPMInstitute.org and SOAInstitute.org research shows that companies are planning to marshal these technologies and methodologies together into a comprehensive strategy, platform and discipline. One that will enable organizations to make better business decisions – more quickly – both in the short term and the long term.

What is BPM Anyway? Business Process Management Explained

Author(s):

Gregg Rock

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

Tom Dwyer

Editorial Director and current Faculty Member, BPMInstitute.org

BPMInstitute.org defines Business Process Management as the definition, improvement and management of a firm’s end-to-end enterprise business processes in order to achieve three outcomes crucial to a performance-based, customer-driven firm: 1) clarity on strategic direction, 2) alignment of the firm’s resources, and 3) increased discipline in daily operations.

BPM is an enterprise-wide, structured approach to providing the products and services that your customer’s value most. It is grounded in the premise that you must take a process view of your company in order to understand what products and services your customer values most. By understanding the key business processes your company uses to meet these customer needs, the gap between customer expectations and your ability to perform begins to emerge.

Performance Improvement Requires Multi-tiered Approach

Author(s):

Gregg Rock

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

Gregg V. Rock talks with Dr. Geary A. Rummler, industry pioneer in process and performance improvement

Dr. Geary A. Rummler’s book, Improving Performance-How to Manage the White Space on the Organization Chart, is considered one of the groundbreaking works in business process and performance improvement. As a co-founder of the Performance Design Lab, he has continued to evolve and expand the theory base and methodologies that can lead to breakthrough approaches to management systems, measurement, strategy, and organization structure design and implementation. His latest book, Serious Performance Consulting According to Rummler, is designed to enable performance consultants to move beyond their focus on individuals to produce organizational results. He talked to Gregg V. Rock, Editor of BPMinstitute.org.