ABOUT THIS SESSION:
To effectively model business processes and business rules, organizations need tools that are as flexible as the business they are being used to define and improve. As business needs shift, the changes must be quickly reflected in the business model and propagated throughout the system linked to the business models. As a result, more companies are becoming aware of the need to select tools that support and enable this type of change.
Organizations which started with drawing tools as the basis for defining and understanding their business are now looking for one toolset or vendor to provide a complete solution.
The good news is that many of the tool vendors have made the appropriate changes t their toolkits or acquired the functionality needed through partnership with or the purchase of other vendor’s products. One critical capability of tools is the reusability of modeling elements. It is extremely efficient if the tool can also translate business objects into code for application development technologies. Additionally, reverse engineering facilities make it easy for business and technology to stay in sync by engineering business models from code.
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How to create the right criteria for selecting a good toolkit
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How notations like BPMN are an important part of your tool decision
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How to gain the benefit of using tools to document process and business rules in the same technology
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How the concepts of flexibility and reuse should influence your toolkit selection
ABOUT THE SPEAKER(s):
Kathy A. Long, a Principal of the Process Renewal Group, and President of her own company, Innovative Process Consulting, has been helping organizations understand and improve their business performance through improved processes since the mid-1980’s. She has experience improving processes in a wide variety of industries worldwide, including leasing, manufacturing, customer service, telecommunications, banking, petrochemicals, government and retail. Ms. Long brings a very practical, common sense approach to process improvement, applying a variety of techniques and the application of innovative concepts to help move organizations forward with better more effective and adaptable processes. Working with clients, she has enabled them to increase the efficiency of their processes by literally thousands of percent.
She is regarded as realistic practitioner who believes people are one of the critical factors for success in any process improvement initiative and coined the phrase, “People are the Process”.
