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Derek serves Enterprise Architecture Professionals. He is an internationally recognized expert in business process management (BPM) and organizational transformation. He has worked in this area for more than 20 years, dealing with major brands, governmental organizations, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Derek's research focuses on the methods, approaches, frameworks, tools, techniques, and technologies of business architecture; BPM; business process improvement; business transformation; and organizational change. He places special emphasis on an outcome-based, customer-focused approach.
Derek is a well-known keynote speaker and chair of major EA conferences. As co-chair of BPMI.org, he helped merge the organization with the Object Management Group (OMG).
Derek completed the Early Growth Program at London Business School.
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How do we develop an internal mobile strategy to provide employees with the necessary tools and applications to improve effectiveness and productivity?
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We are looking for a comparative analysis of the financial reporting tools that major US insurance companies are using to perform daily, monthly, quarterly, and year-end reports, BI analytics, and...
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I am developing my on-site search road map. What trends are on the horizon?
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Please describe approaches to enterprise information management in terms of the following groups: laggards, middle-of-the-pack, early adopters, and government.
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