Welcome to the Business Process Transformations Group
Never Too Late to Join the Process Future
The next two years is not the time to retrench into functional silos and traditional hierarchical management structures. As competition intensifies in shrinking market sectors, survival as an undifferentiated supplier of medium value standard product will become increasingly problematic.
Not only end-to-end process, but high value-adding process will be at the core of business strategy in these testing times.
Now is the time to ensure that the business has process at the core of its strategy for survival and future success, that management confronts functional segregation and other divisive root causes of inefficiency and ineffectiveness and takes decisive action to strengthen the skill sets of process embedded in the organisation.
The BPTGroup approach prepares both key individuals and their organisations for delivering the benefits of process-centric change and is d esigned for
- Business Change Professionals whose role is to represent both the business’s requirements and the customer’s needs
- Process Owners and Process Managers as they shape the structure, work on the design of, and then manage the new business processes
- IT Professionals who need to understand the requirements of process from a strictly business and customer perspective to better inform their key role in the development and delivery of the enabling technology
Our competency-based approach to professional and effective business process training and development has been honed and extended since its inception in 1991, making it one of the most mature programmes available globally. It has been presented, around the world, to thousands of executives, managers, analysts and business process change professionals.
The BPTGroup is dedicated to providing organizations worldwide with the insight, resources and the developmental training to help transform themselves into truly successful, process-driven leaders in their sector. We help you focus on value creation, operational process clarity and the right organisational structure to vision and deliver genuine end-to-end business processes.
The New 8 Omega
In the 4 years since it was launched the 8 Omega Framework and its associated generic methodology have been tried and tested by thousands of individuals and hundreds of organisations worldwide. They have used its comprehensive perspective to engage people from all levels in their organisations in the lifecycle of process-centric change.
We have learned from the experience of our clients and their feedback. Using also our own practical observation and research we have introduced a few important modifications to the 8 Omega structure.
To see the new the new 8 Omega presentation in detail click here
Audit Services for Business Change Professional Development and Training
The BPTGroup offer a range of audit services designed to enable our clients to effectively identify training and development requirements for business change professional staff. We conduct audits by questionnaire, personal interview and team workshops for
- Business Process Professionals
- Business Analysts
- Project Managers
…and also carry out
- Process Managers Skills Audits
- Process Maturity Audit for the Organisation
We can audit against mutually agreed professional standards or an organisations internally agreed criteria. We can assist in the development of those standards and/ or use the agreed criteria and outcomes on which our Advanced Professional Qualifications for Business Change Professionals are based.
Click through to Audits for Change for full details
Capability Assessment for Business Change Professionals
BPTGroup, with our partner SkillsEdge, have developed and refined a straightforward yet sophisticated means of measuring the knowledge base of a business professional. For business analysts and project managers we can deploy Capability Assessment tools which your staff business change can complete online. In practice this means minimising the risk of hiring the wrong person or spending valuable training budget on things people either already know or, worse, don't need. We have developed the Business Analysis Capability Assessment Tool with our partners Skillsedge which you can access at. You will find the Project Management tool equally as valuable.
“The Core Skills of Business Analysis and Process Design”
As one of our most sought after courses, and in response to client feedback, we have reformatted this programme. “The Core Skills of Business Analysis and Process Design” will normally run as a seven day in-house programme and an intensive 5 day open course.
The seven day in-house programme is broken down into two sessions with a one or two week gap in between. The 5 day intensive open course covers the same accredited programme.
The first of these 5 day programmes will run 19th May to 23rd May 2008. For full details click here.
Look out for … in the very near future
Third World Process in a First World Country
For those of us in the process fraternity case studies come and go but every now and again one surfaces which evokes nothing but disbelief. This one is all the more remarkable in that it provided an accompaniment to the formation of the BPTG. Like many organizations that pay apparent lip service to their clients in reality, when the process is broken, they are impenetrable monoliths. And it only needs one point of failure for the shutters to go up.
We are going to launch this as the basis for a competition.
Managing in the Process Driven Organisation
Our restructuring of 8 Omega helped refine our understanding of the training and development needs of those engaged in Process. The needs of the business change professional are met initially through our “Transforming Business Processes” 4-day programme; we are about to introduce a new 3-day module entitled
“Managing in the Process Driven Organisation” – drop us a line if you wish full details to be sent to you when published.
It is no good transforming the processes if you can’t manage and sustain what you have created. The challenges for functional managers moving into an end-to-end business process environment must be identified and addressed
Defining and Managing Business Requirements
Who is responsible for requirements definition? When should they be done? What influence do they have on business rules, and the rules on the requirements? What is the nature of the relationship between business and IT requirements? Is requirements definition the Achilles heel of process design?
The failure in requirements definition perfectly illustrates the value of collaborative and communicative management style, a key success factor for process driven organizations. Good or poor, done or not done, business requirements and system requirements have traditionally been formulated within functional silos.
The BPTGroup will shortly launch its 3-Day in-house and open course programme on “Defining and Managing Business Requirements” – drop us a line if you wish full details to be sent to you when published.
