EAC
Few topics cause more debate than how to improve the relationship between the Business and the Information Technology organization. Survey results among CEOs and CIOs repeatedly identify business alignment as the crucial issue, yet rarely do they reveal consensus agreement on how to achieve it. Better project management, IT Governance, requirements management, SOA delivery, and agile development are all offered as possible solutions. While they are all important, they focus only on part of the problem – project delivery.
Only one discipline unites business and information technology across the full holistic context of what the business really is – all of its strategies, objectives, processes, information, people, infrastructure, solutions and systems. That discipline is enterprise architecture and it is one of today’s hottest topics in information technology management.
BPM
As the BPM marketplace moves from early adopter to an early majority phase, there are more and more new professionals joining forces with experienced practitioners and managers to change what their organizations do and how they do it. They are starting to make a difference in business performance for their organizations’ stakeholders. At the IIR BPM conference, all groups will have an opportunity to learn from respected BPM authors and leaders, as well as collaborate with seasoned members of organizations finding and delivering new business value in a world of unprecedented pressure and rising expectations.
For the newcomers the good news is that, by now, there is a set of reliable principles that provide a set of base guidelines to make BPM repeatable and trustworthy. For the veterans, the good news is that the state of BPM is ever-evolving and that peer organizations are learning the subtleties of advanced approaches to continually improve the processes of process. For business and IT managers alike, the associated management of process assets is becoming a management discipline itself that the leaders can describe, demonstrate and repeat.
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