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Leveraging the Value Proposition of SOA: How Enterprise Architecture Helps Organizations Analyze and Develop Their Services Strategy

Leveraging the Value Proposition of SOA: How Enterprise Architecture Helps Organizations Analyze and Develop Their Services Strategy

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BPMInstitute.org
Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

This SOA paper discusses the benefits of SOA as an architectural principle that opens the door to using IT technology in new ways to help improve efficiency and productivity. Along with an enterprise architecture – the intellectual component of an SOA – organizations can approach SOA as a new way to enable architecture instead of another new technology to move data.

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A New Foundation For The Shifting Sands Of The Communications Industry: Business Process Management

A New Foundation For The Shifting Sands Of The Communications Industry: Business Process Management

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BPMInstitute.org
Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

This Solution Brief highlights the issues facing both communications equipment providers and telecommunications carriers as they strive to deal with a changing competitive landscape of hybrid players, legacy systems and customer churn. Case studies from the biggest and best telecommunications companies show you how IT and Business have used BPM (Business Process Management) disciplines and technologies to streamline mission-critical processes and gain competitive advantage.

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The Productivity Paradigm-Shift:  Enabling Business Efficiency through Collaborative BPM

The Productivity Paradigm-Shift: Enabling Business Efficiency through Collaborative BPM

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BPMInstitute.org
Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

Today, most BPM tools see human task as an end point – making an accept, reject, or delegate decision. The system is oblivious to what that person needs to arrive at a decision – who he needs to talks to, the documents he needs to reviews, the people he must email. In order to capture the totality of the process lifecycle, BPM must enable collaboration – not just in in aligning business and IT goals and deliverables during the development cycle, but with functions that capture and promote end-user productivity.

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Leveraging Data Models to Create a Unified Business Vocabulary for Service Oriented Architectures

Leveraging Data Models to Create a Unified Business Vocabulary for Service Oriented Architectures

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BPMInstitute.org
Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

Early SOA initiatives generally focused on defining business services first, and worrying about the data later. Today, we acknowledge that services and data must work in concert to produce coherent and well-aligned service architectures. The unifying elements in the architecture include a shared definition of business information structure, validity and vocabulary – in other words, the metadata.

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Process Discovery – The First Step of BPM

Process Discovery – The First Step of BPM

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BPMInstitute.org
Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

How do you pick the process that best addresses corporate objectives, current problems and feasibility concerns?

Every company considering an investment in Business Process Management (BPM) practices and technology asks this question. This is called process discovery. It is a crucial capability for your organization. Learn about the challenges of process discovery, what capabilities you need to develop and how Lombardi’s Blueprint can help you get started with BPM.

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Why Runtime Governance is Critical for SOA

Why Runtime Governance is Critical for SOA

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BPMInstitute.org
Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

With SOA services now in production within many organizations, system architects are realizing that the most critical control/governance issue is in runtime. Data point after data point has demonstrated that many SOA implementations are just not working in production as designed or expected. Problems range from service interruptions to entire business processes failing, to compliance risks that generate costly delays and lengthy triage cycles. As these problems continue to pile up, runtime governance is now taking center stage for companies launching and utilizing SOAs.

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Improving Product Lifecycle Processes To Drive Business Agility

Improving Product Lifecycle Processes To Drive Business Agility

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BPMInstitute.org
Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

Are you a product-centric enterprise striving for agility in bringing quality goods to market faster? Do you deal with a complex value chain with multiple handoffs and contingency points? Business Process Management (BPM) solutions help companies like yours turn product lifecycle management into a competitive weapon. Download this informative solution brief now to see how leaders have transformed their order management, product planning, and channel forecasting processes to capture more customers and nimbly respond to market changes.

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Next-Generation BPM: Creating the Strategic Enterprise

Next-Generation BPM: Creating the Strategic Enterprise

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BPMInstitute.org
Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

In its simplest form, business process management (BPM) is the definition, modeling, execution, automation and management of business processes. Organizations worldwide use BPM to coordinate workbetween people and systems, with the ultimate goal of improving organizational efficiency, responsiveness and reliability.

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SOA with Six Sigma Methodology: A Process for E-business Development

SOA with Six Sigma Methodology: A Process for E-business Development

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BPMInstitute.org
Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

SOA is a “thinking process” rather than an architecture tool or a method framework.

Six Sigma is a measure of quality that strives for perfection. It is attributed as a disciplined, data-driven approach and methodology for eliminating defects. It is also a way to enable the evaluation / re-evaluate of an organization / project’s financial benefits and to verify them.

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Making Intelligence Actionable: Business Process Management and Business Intelligence

Making Intelligence Actionable: Business Process Management and Business Intelligence

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BPMInstitute.org
Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

Are your BI systems loaded with untapped potential that can increase your company’s success? Make all that intelligence actionable with process management solutions and boost performance metrics by magnitudes.

Download this informative solution brief, “Making Intelligence Actionable: Business Process Management and Business Intelligence.”

Enterprises combining BI & BPM report significant performance gains and efficiencies. See how!

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Featured Certificate: BPM Specialist

Everyone starts here.

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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  • Business Process Management Specialist
  • Earning your Business Process Management Specialist (BPMS) Certificate will provide you with a distinct competitive advantage in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape. With in-depth knowledge of process improvement and management, you’ll be able to take your business career to the next level.
  • BPM Professional Certificate
    Business Process Management Professional
  • Earning your Business Process Management Professional (BPMP) Certificate will elevate your expertise and professional standing in the field of business process management. Our BPMP Certificate is a tangible symbol of your achievement, demonstrating your in-depth knowledge of process improvement and management.

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BPM Certification

  • Make the most of your hard-earned skills. Earn the respect of your peers and superiors with Business Process Management Certification from the industry's top BPM educational organization.

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  • Operational Excellence Specialist
  • Earning your Operational Excellence Specialist Certificate will provide you with a distinct advantage in driving organizational excellence and achieving sustainable improvements in performance.
 

 

OpEx Professional Certificate

  • Operational Excellence Professional
  • Earn your Operational Excellence Professional Certificate and gain a competitive edge in driving organizational excellence and achieving sustainable improvements in performance.

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  • Agile BPM Specialist
  • Earn your Agile BPM Specialist Certificate and gain a competitive edge in driving business process management (BPM) with agile methodologies. You’ll gain a strong understanding of how to apply agile principles and concepts to business process management initiatives.  
 

Business Architecture

 

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  • Business Architecture Specialist
  • The Business Architecture Specialist (BAIS) Certificate is proof that you’ve begun your business architecture journey by committing to the industry’s most meaningful and credible business architecture training program.

  • Business Architecture Professional
  • When you earn your Business Architecture Professional (BAIP) Certificate, you will be able to design and implement a governance structure for your organization, develop and optimize business processes, and manage business information effectively.

BA CertificationCertification

  • Make the most of your hard-earned skills. Earn the respect of your peers and superiors with Business Architecture Certification from the industry's top BPM educational organization.

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  • Digital Transformation Specialist
  • Earning your Digital Transformation Specialist Certificate will provide you with a distinct advantage in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape. 
 

 

  • Digital Transformation Professional
  • The Digital Transformation Professional Certificate is the first program in the industry to cover all the key pillars of Digital Transformation holistically with practical recommendations and exercises.

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  • Agile Business Analysis Specialist
  • Earning your Agile Business Analysis Specialist Certificate will provide you with a distinct advantage in the world of agile software development.

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  • DAS Certificate
  • Decision Automation Specialist
  • Earning your Decision Automation Certificate will empower you to excel in the dynamic field of automated decision-making, where data-driven insights are pivotal to driving business innovation and efficiency.