Welcome to the Business Process Transformations Group
Moving Forward
The first six months for the BPTGroup have been hectic in the extreme – courses and development programmes in London, Canberra, Johannesburg, Exeter, Los Angeles, Auckland, and Cape Town among others have kept us on the road. However, along side our client activity we have been developing new courses and materiel designed to serve the needs of the business change professional. My apologies that it has taken longer than hoped to launch phase two of the website development programme but as you can see from the following we have a raft of new offerings starting now and unrolling over the next few months. My thanks for the continuing support and encouragement from so many of you from all parts of the world.
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.
