Many business technology forces are propelling enterprises to transform their business processes, including the strategic need for greater customer engagement, an aggressive push into global markets, pressure for greater levels of compliance, a hunt for global talent, and the strategic impact of technology on business outcomes. Moving to this new state won't be easy, because companies have very limited skills in business process transformation, the IT organization is often relegated to cost-cutting and technology modernization instead of transformation, and the enterprise's process, IT, and business teams lack experience working together on continuous improvement and business transformation.
These three groups — business functions, process teams, and IT — play a key role in process transformation, working seamlessly together on transformation projects. But often that doesn't happen. Instead:
- At the most basic level, these groups work independently on process initiatives with little interaction, cross-training, or shared methodologies. The enterprise may achieve limited process improvement success, but it won't drive business process transformation across the organization as long as these three essential groups work independently without a shared vision.
- At the next level, these three groups sometimes work together but are constrained by their inability to collaborate, lack common methodologies, and even go without a shared understanding of the problem/challenge they are asked to solve. They may deliver results, but not at the business transformation level.
- At the highest level, these three groups have learned to collaborate as one holistic, integrated team with a single purpose, and with individuals cross-trained in different process transformation and improvement disciplines. These groups target process transformation and usually deliver impressive results.
No matter what level the enterprise is operating at, process transformation does not take place in a vacuum — technology also marches forward, with new gamechangers such as cloud, systems of engagement, and consumerization of IT, giving the business more power than ever over its technology future. This reality also drives IT toward metamorphosis — becoming not just more business-facing, but much more synchronized or fused with the business.
As this occurs, IT and process teams that both serve the business will begin to overlap and eventually merge. The role of the CIO and process executives is also changing, with one possible outcome that CIOs or process execs become chief process officers or business architects — helping drive the process transformation agenda.
Agenda:
- The process-driven business of 2020 is being pushed today by several powerful forces, making it imperative for IT, process teams, and the business to work together on an unprecedented level. This webinar briefly reviews these forces and the impact they have on the business, process teams, and IT.
- Three process transformation archetypes have emerged, which we call pop soloist, classical trio, and jazz orchestra. This webinar examines the hallmarks of each archetype and explores how enterprises can move from one business process transformation maturity level to the next.
- The webinar also provides three to four case studies of organizations that are in the midst of business process transformation, and it examines how their IT orgs, process teams, and business executives have worked together (or not) to achieve significant process improvements and transformation. The case studies briefly examine the role of business architects and chief process officers in the most mature scenarios.
- The webinar concludes with predictions and recommendations for building a stronger business/IT/process team partnership for business process transformation.
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