Advanced Professional Qualifications for Business Change Professionals

The skill sets of change are vitally important to a modern organisation; the rapidly transforming global economy places Change as a core competence alongside more traditional business skills as an instrument of organisational survival. For this reason the “Advanced Professional Qualifications for Business Change Professionals”, a suite of training and development programmes developed by David Lyneham-Brown of BPTGroup in co-operation with Richard Johnson of Charnwood Management Centre, is offered to individuals and organisations to structure the development of their business change expertise.

The Advanced Professional Qualifications for Business Change Professionals (APQBCP) is the successor programme to an earlier training and qualification system launched in 1995 which was adopted by some UK banks and other organisations to structure the development of their business change teams. As part of the International Association of Business Process Management (IABPM) the BPTGroup is actively engaged in developing a global accreditation system for business change professionals.

By clicking on the individual modules in the structure below you will see the objectives, outcomes and detailed programme for each as we roll out these modules over the next 18 months.

Currently, the following programmes are in release:

• Core Skills of Business Analysis & Process Design
• Transforming Business Processes – the BPM Practitioner Programme
• Managing the Process Driven Organisation
• Enabling Technologies of Business Process Transformation

Delegates can take individual modules purely for the knowledge and insight offered or they can, for a small additional registration and assessment fee, submit a post-course project that will be assessed and, when of the required standard, certified by both the BPTGroup, and as the programme unfolds, by Edexcel, our accrediting agency.

The first module, the “Core Skills of Business Analysis & Process Design” was formally accredited in November 2006 and the next four modules are currently in submission. Much more information on the accreditation process is available but delegates attending our programme of Business Change modules can rest assured that they are all delivered to the standards required by the accrediting agency.

The BPTGroup is dedicated to providing a broad range of training and educational opportunities to the business change community for the purpose of helping individuals and organizations achieve the highest possible level of success in their business change endeavours. We will do this through accredited and non-accredited courses, seminars, events, developing online learning systems to support all levels of skill, experience and roles.

To explain our accredited professional approach we have split the subject down into two major sections:

• Operational Aspects of Accreditation – how it works for the business change professional
• Authenticity and Validation of BPTG Approach to Accreditation – background, authenticity of accreditation, international accreditation initiative