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April 15 – April 18, 2024
9am – 5pm CT
Online and in-person, full-day training format

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Skills Development for the Digital Age

In an era where digital transformation is the heartbeat of thriving organizations, the demand for digital skills has never been hotter. As the world evolves, so must your skillset. Welcome to our immersive online training session where we’ll help you bridge the skills gap and prepare for the digital revolution.

Elevate Your Expertise with Professional Certificates

We’ve curated a lineup of seven cutting-edge professional certificates designed to equip you with the prowess needed for the digital era:

Professional Certificates: Eight-course programs consisting of core and elective courses.

  • Business Process Management Professional Certificate
  • Business Architecture Professional Certificate
  • Digital Transformation Professional Certificate
  • OPEX Professional Certificate

BPM Professional Certificate

Specialist Certificates: Four-course programs focused on specific disciplines.

  • Business Process Management Specialist Certificate
  • BAIS Certificate
  • Agile BPM Certificate
  • OPEX Specialist Certificate
  • Digital Transformation Specialist Certificate
  • Agile Business Analysis Certificate
  • Decision Automation Certificate
  • Process Mining Certificate
  • Intelligent Automation Certificate

 

Experience Unparalleled Training

We take pride in being the industry’s leading authority in process improvement and related training. Recognized by Forrester Research as a top-tier BPM training and certification provider, BPMInstitute.org has achieved the highest accolades in five key categories.

Only with BPMInstitute.org can you access a comprehensive curriculum of courses, professional certificates, and certifications dedicated to process improvement. Whether you prefer on-demand, live online, or in-person sessions, we’re here year-round to cater to your needs.

Our instructors are not just educators; they’re renowned experts who bring real-world case studies and hands-on exercises to the forefront of your learning experience.

What to Expect

Our training sessions are not just classes; they’re immersive experiences. Join a community of like-minded professionals and expert instructors in an intimate online learning environment. Expect to acquire the disciplines, methodologies, and hands-on skills that will catapult your career and projects to new heights.

What’s in store for you at our Spring Session

  • Over 25 engaging training courses
  • Unbiased, vendor-neutral content
  • Networking lunches and mixers
  • Hands-on skill development exercises

Need Guidance in Course Selection?

Our Learning Paths offer personalized suggestions based on your role, job responsibilities, or discipline. For tailored advice, connect with our training advisors at (508) 475-0475 x15 or schedule a one-on-one meeting to discuss your individual or group training needs.

Register for the Spring Session

Ready to embark on your digital transformation journey? Register online, call us at (508) 475-0475 x15 to speak with a training advisor, or schedule a personalized consultation to fine-tune your training plan.

 

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Step into a world of transformation and empowerment as you embark on a full-day immersion with our internationally acclaimed instructors. These experts are not just educators; they are revered authorities in their respective fields. Join them for a day of enlightenment and deep learning, where the foundations of real-world process improvement come to life.

Designed for Forward Thinkers

Our training courses are a beacon for forward-thinking business and technology professionals like you. If you’re eager to explore and apply the latest ideologies, strategies, disciplines, and methodologies to your unique business environment, you’re in the right place. Our immersive training experience will equip you with the knowledge and tools to lead your industry into the future.

Reignite your passion for learning and innovation. Join us for a day that will redefine your approach to business excellence.

Training Courses

Thursday, April 18, 2024
Establishing Business Process Governance & Centers of Excellence
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This course builds a comprehensive understanding of how to establish process governance with a focus on the emerging roles of process owner, process council, and the process office.
Process Modeling With BPMN: Part 2
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The objective of BPMN is to support business process management for both technical users and business users by providing a notation that is intuitive to business users yet able to represent complex process semantics.
Organizational Change Management
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Organizational change management (OCM) is needed for success with business improvement and transformational programs. This exercise based course provides insight on OCM and reorganization, technological change and process based change initiatives.
Agile BPM in Action
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Agile BPM in Action gives participants hands-on experience applying the principles of agile BPM.
Launching Your Business Architecture Practice
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Business Architects need to think from a business perspective; expert in employing consultative techniques like facilitation, influence, change leadership and communication. In this course participants will gain new insight to critical perspective for the business architect.
Digital Customer Experience: Personas and Journey Mapping
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Digital customer experience is all about creating the best possible experience for your customers when they interact with your brand online. It's about understanding their needs and expectations, and then designing and delivering an experience that meets or exceeds those expectations.
The Practice of Agile Business Analysis: Part 2
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Participants will learn how to function tactically and strategically as an agile business analyst. Detailed work and hands-on exercises will include writing user stories, decomposing epics, analysis wall management, and practice with more techniques.
Advanced Process Mining
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Low Code/No Code Competency Centers and Best Practices
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Process Measurement and Metrics
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Process measurement skills are essential to BPM success. In this course you will acquire a solid understanding of practical measurement techniques and how to apply these to the analysis and design of business processes.
Process Modeling With BPMN: Part 1
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The objective of BPMN is to support business process management for both technical users and business users by providing a notation that is intuitive to business users yet able to represent complex process semantics.
Customer Experience, Modeling, Analysis and Design
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This course provides participants with the key concepts, terms, methodologies, and techniques to map, model, analyze and design customer experience.
Agile Techniques for BPM
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Agile Techniques for BPM discusses the principles and standards of the agile methodology for members of Business Process Management
Building a Business Architecture: Part 2
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Business Architecture provides context and understanding for defining and delivering organizational strategy. This course builds both conceptual and practical knowledge of the tools and techniques used in business architecture.
Business Architecture / IT Architecture Alignment
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This training course provides attendees with the ability to establish and map formal blueprints of business and IT architectures and use these blueprints to drive solution oriented roadmaps, IT transformation funding and project definition, prioritization and deployment.
Process Automation Approaches: Working with Hyperautomation, Process Mining, RPA, and BPMN Automation
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As part of the core Digital Transformation curriculum, this course provides a high-level introduction to the process automation landscape including hyperautomation, process mining, RPA, and model-driven application development using BPMN.
The Practice of Agile Business Analysis: Part 1
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Participants will learn how to function tactically and strategically as an agile business analyst. Detailed work and hands-on exercises will include writing user stories, decomposing epics, analysis wall management, and practice with more techniques.
Process Data Cleansing and Aggregation
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Low Code/No Code Competency Centers and Best Practices
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Process Modeling, Analysis & Design
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Achieving success with BPM relies upon skill in process modeling, analysis and design. This course equips you with the practical, applied knowledge to lead/facilitate process improvement projects.
Advanced Facilitation Skills
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Whether you are developing a business architecture, creating a process model, leading an improvement team, or running a meeting, great facilitation skills are crucial. You need to be able to keep people engaged, elicit the necessary information, create shared understanding and build consensus all while keeping them focused on the intended goal.
Agile BPM Roles and Responsibilities
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The Agile BPM Roles and Responsibilities class focuses on how to implement agile in BPM initiatives. Participants will learn how to apply agile principles to BPM and the agile BPM delivery life cycle. In addition they will learn how to adapt roles in agile and how to setup process improvement work that delivers value more quickly to internal and/or external customers.
Building a Business Architecture: Part 1
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Business Architecture provides context and understanding for defining and delivering organizational strategy. This course builds both conceptual and practical knowledge of the tools and techniques used in business architecture.
The Business Architecture Playbook
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This course brings together the knowledge and skills from other Business Architecture courses and puts it within context. It provides an end-to-end process for creating and applying Business Architecture for various scenarios. This includes everything from planning an effort, to assessing the current state and architecting the target state, to planning initiatives and measuring the results. It describes key activities to be performed as well as the inputs, outputs (deliverables) and roles involved with each. It identifies key integration points with related disciplines. The course also provides deep dives on key topics such as developing target architectures and strategic roadmaps, and integrating architecture across the organization.
Low Code/No Code: The Good, The Bad and The Challenging
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Low Code/No Code empowers Citizen Developers and enhances IT productivity. However, to succeed, its challenges need to be addressed through pragmatic best practices.
The Agile Business Analyst
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Not your typical agile class! Learn how business analysis and agile based project management fit into an agile implementation.
Process Mining to RPA & Process Automation
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Low Code/No Code: Platforms, Paradigms & ROIs
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Monday, April 15, 2024
Business Process Management 101
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BPM 101 is the foundational course for those starting their BPM journey. It presents an overview of process modeling, analysis, design, the technologies in BPM and the role of BPM in digital transformation.
Methodologies and Approaches for BPM
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Understand the similarities and differences between four seminal methodologies: Six Sigma, Lean, Reengineering and BPM. Do exercises for techniques and discuss cases in each methodology.
Agile Methodology for BPM
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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. This class is excellent for BPM practitioners who are working with scrum teams and for leaders who want to inject agile principles into their process improvement departments.
Business Architecture 101
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Business Architecture provides context and understanding for organizational environments. This course provides an overview of key concepts of the profession and practical application of business architecture.
Establishing Business Architecture Governance and Centers of Excellence
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Once the value of Business Architecture is demonstrated within an organization, the next step is to set up governance and a Center of Excellence to formally establish the practice and the Business Architect role within the organization.  This course provides the roadmap for creating a successful Business Architecture practice.  It is beneficial for anyone who is just starting to establish a Business Architecture practice within their organization or for those who are already on the journey.
Digital Transformation 101: Alleviating Digital Transformation Debt
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Foundation course to create a roadmap for your cultural and digital transformation journeys leveraging hyperautomation, No Code, AI, Process Mining, IoT and Blockchain with best practices & examples.
Agile Business Analysis 101
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Not your typical intro to agile class! This course focuses on teaching the basics of agile while explaining the limitations and provides recommendations for avoiding typical agile implementation pitfalls.
Process Mining 101
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Learn Process Mining - the new method for data-centric analysis, improvement, and execution of processes. Process Mining helps organizations discover and enhance real (vs. theorized or assumed) processes - with all its variants.
Low Code/No Code 101
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The course will provide an overview of Low Code/No Code platform landscape, highlight the Citizen Developer empowerment, cover the best practices for MVP and Digital Transformation and describe the potential challenges and pitfalls of Low Code/No Code.

Venue Information

Laguna Niguel
200 East Randolph Street Suite 5100
Chicago, IL 60601

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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.

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