BrainStorm San Francisco

June 25th thru 28th, 2012 at the Marriott San Francisco Union Square

Only the agile survive

In today's constantly-changing business environment, only the most agile enterprises stand a chance. At BrainStorm San Francisco, you’ll receive intensive training and workshops covering the real-world skills needed to successfully implement continuous process improvement in any organization.

If you are looking for more than just incremental improvements in your business, join us in San Francisco for an unbiased source of education and insight from the leading experts in the field - and begin building your agile enterprise today.

More than "Just Another" Conference

What started as a series of conferences has evolved into something more. Educational events designed to give attendees the skills they need to improve their organization’s operational efficiency and advance their own careers, regardless of their current position – from business analyst to CEO.

At BrainStorm San Francisco, we offer a blend of both product-agnostic training and product-specific workshops.

Full-Day Immersion Training - Disciplines and Methodologies
Immerse yourself in the foundations of real-world process improvement. Learn to apply the underlying concepts and principles of proven disciplines and methodologies from the leading experts in the field.

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Half-Day Innovation Workshops - Tools and Techniques
Learn how to evaluate and incorporate the latest state-of-the-art tools and techniques into your specific environment.

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Full-Day Immersion Training - Disciplines and Methodologies

Our best-in-class instructors are internationally recognized subject-matter authorities. Spend a day with the experts and immerse yourself in the foundations of real-world process improvement.

Our training courses are specifically designed for forward thinking Business and Technology Professionals interested in learning and applying the most current ideologies, strategies, disciplines and methodologies to their specific business environment.

Full-Day Immersion Training courses feature:

Methodologies (vs technologies)
Best practices
Case Study Analysis
An extremely interactive, hands-on experience

This event will feature the following Full-Day Training Courses:

Monday, June 25, 2012

BPM 101

An Introduction to Business Process Management BPMInstitute.org defines Business Process Management (BPM) as the deliberative, collaborative, and increasingly technology-aided definition, improvement and management of a firm’s end-to-end enterprise...

Methodologies and Approaches for BPM

Embracing a set of methods and standard approaches are critical for accelerating BPM adoption across an organization. This advanced course is designed to expose the student to a broad array of methods used during different phases of a BPM program. The...

BA 101

An Introduction to Business Architecture What does Business Architecture mean to your organization? Most organizations lack a well articulated blueprint of their business. While everyone can see their small piece of the puzzle, no one has visibility into...

SOA 101

The Foundation for Cloud Computing Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a hosted service over the Internet - the cloud. To take advantage of these services,...

Business Rules and BDM 101

Incorporating Business Rules and Decisions into BPM, BDM and SOA This intensive business rule tutorial is specifically targeted at both non-technical and technical audiences and is excellent for entire project teams. Attendees may be those involved...

Using Simulations to Increase Process Efficiency

Organizations always need to figure out how to do more with less. They need to be more productive with fewer people or scale to meet higher volume levels. There are many ways to optimize resources, increase services or production, and impact the bottom...

Developing Process Improvement Initiatives with Your BPMS

Are you realizing the promise of BPM and of your BPMS investment? Many companies expected that purchasing a BPMS tool would facilitate the transformation to a process-centric organization by instigating a series of process improvement initiatives....

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Process Modeling, Analysis and Design: As Is, To Be

Modeling, analysis and design skills are essential to BPM success. In this course you will acquire a solid understanding of practical techniques for modeling, analysis and design. The section of this lesson on modeling provides insight on how to depict...

The Process Facilitator: Skills & Techniques to Enhance Collaboration

Whether you are developing a business architecture, creating a process model, leading an improvement team, or running a meeting, great facilitation skills are crucial. You need to be able to keep people engaged, elicit the necessary information, create...

Building a Business Architecture using Value Chains and Value Streams

The Building a Business Architecture Using Value Chains and Value Streams class describes an approach and method for building an architecture of the business. It explains how to build and integrate your customer centric cross-functional business...

SOA for Architects

Defining a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the current challenge of many enterprise IT organizations. The emergent popularity of Web services, and the ease of implementation, has enabled most organizations to adopt an incremental approach to SOA...

Business Rules Driven Requirements

Using the Decision Model to Enhance Model Based Business Requirements and Testing This tutorial provides a powerful way to enhance existing models-based Business Requirements methods – adding a new model called the Decision Model to the catalog of...

Modernizing Requirements Gathering

Reshaping the Approach to Business Analysis Today's conventional approach to requirements analysis and engineering is limited in its value as organizations attempt to address demands for increased innovation, rapid product and service rollout,...

Map, Analyze, Improve Your Process: A Learning Lab

If you are wondering how to focus your BPM efforts this course is for you. Process modeling can take 6 months and the analysis another 6 months after that. But it doesn’t have to. This course demonstrates a structured approach that gets results...

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Process Measurement and Metrics

Process measurement skills are essential to BPM success. In this course you will acquire a solid understanding of practical measurement techniques as applied to the analysis and design of business processes. Determining what to measure and defining clear...

Process Modeling With BPMN

The Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a standard for business process modeling, and provides a graphical notation for specifying business processes in a Business Process Diagram (BPD), It is based on flowcharting techniques similar to...

Business Architecture / IT Architecture Alignment

Cross-Disciplinary Alignment Strategies for Business & IT Most organizations lack a well articulated blueprint of their business. While everyone can see their small piece of the puzzle, no one has visibility into the enterprise as a whole. This in...

Service Oriented Integration

Standards, Technologies, and Best Practices IT managers have been under increasing pressure to migrate a portfolio of independent "stovepipe" applications to an integrated set of business services that can be aligned with changing business requirements...

Using BPM Discipline with Six Sigma & Lean Methodologies

To provide students the ability to create a Customer focused – Process Enabled Enterprise. This requires a business process framework, established enterprise architecture, creating "real-time" business intelligence, and a link between continuous...

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Establishing Business Process Governance & Centers of Excellence

As process management begins to blur the traditional boundaries of the organization, a more transparent and accurate decision making process is necessary. This course builds a comprehensive understanding of how to best address this challenge with a focus...

Process Modeling With BPMN

Business Information Semantics & Rules

Is your enterprise defining a business transformation led by value chain analysis or a balanced scorecard? Are you having trouble finding data to serve as measures? Are you having a problem communicating the transformation details? These are symptoms of...

Designing Service Oriented Solutions

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has emerged as the dominant architectural style, especially for enterprise solutions. The potential benefits of SOA in terms of flexibility, agility, cost, and time to market have secured its position, and most...

Business Decision Maturity Model (BDMM)

The Executive Tool for Achieving Organizational Business Decision Maturity This course is specifically for business and I/T executives and architects interested in aligning business objectives with optimum business decision management practices. ...

Data Architecture for Business Architects

Data Architecture for Business Architects is a class based on preeminent thinking of the leading researchers in the Information Architecture domain. This course addresses an integrated way of talking about (modeling) Business Value Chains, Value Streams...

Organizational Change Management

Change is the heart and soul of our business environments; making sure that the workforce is ready to meet the demands of the changing work place is fundamental to ongoing business success. Yet many business change initiatives struggle in achieving...

About our Innovation Workshop series

Half-Day Innovation Workshops allow practitioners the opportunity to experience leading-edge advancements in process improvement technologies and techniques in an educational setting.

Our curriculum is designed to be a highly interactive, hands-on learning experience covering a range of topics to help you best evaluate and incorporate state-of-the-art tools and techniques into your specific business environment.

Half-Day Innovation Workshops feature:

Hands-on exercises
Software Tool demos
Best practices
Panels
Audience participation
Customer case studies

This event will feature the following Half-Day Innovation Workshops:

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Achieve Success With BPM

How To Break Through The Barriers To BPM Companies worldwide have for generations sought to better manage their key business processes to improve efficiency, insight into their impact, and to achieve greater business flexibility. The introduction...

From 9AM to 12PM

Applying BPM to Transform your Business

BPM can deliver levels of transparency, productivity and accountability across your business. To achieve this, you must start with understanding the actionable, practical and proven steps for process improvement success. Join us as we discuss...

From 2PM to 5PM

Executive Luncheon: Reflections From 2011, Outlook for 2012

From 12PM to 1PM

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Managing Processes and Decisions for Better Business Outcomes

Process improvement is about achieving better business outcomes. Technology is providing powerful capabilities that organizations are using now to quickly and continuously improve customer-facing and back-end operations. The challenge, of course, is that...

From 9AM to 12PM

Birds-of-a-Feather Luncheon: Topical Peer To Peer Discussions

From 12PM to 1PM

Using Business Decision Management to Revolutionize Business Requirements and Processes

The Decision Model is a new Business Logic Framework that impacts not just technology trends but also business management practices. It brings to the world of business rules a well-defined structure based on the inherent nature of logic, extended with...

From 2PM to 5PM

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Capability Mapping

Leveraging a Foundational Business Discipline Capability mapping is commonly recognized as a business-oriented foundation for communication and collaboration, issue analysis and resolution, and prioritization and roadmap creation. Capability mapping...

From 9AM to 12PM