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• Topic: Best Practices for Building BPM & SOA Centers of Excellence
• Date: Thursday March 20, 2008 2:00 PM Eastern
• Where: Online
• Featuring: Andrew Spanyi, author of "More for Less: the Power of Process Management", Alex Rosen, Principal, SOA Practice, MomentumSI and Tom Dwyer, VP of Research, BrainStorm Group and Editorial Director, BPMInstitute.org

This Round Table will describe the workshops being held at BrainStorm Chicago in April to train the attendees how to develop the essential elements that are needed to successfully justify, launch and to then evolve a Business Process Management office in your organization and an SOA Center of Excellence. These Centers of Excellence are a shared resource and capability center to function...

Business architecture is the critical bridge between business strategic and operational planning and technology at an enterprise level. This Round Table will explain why it is becoming more important in 2008.

Business Architecture survey results will also be discussed. 

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Tom Dwyer, VP of Research, BrainStorm Group and Editorial Director, BPMInstitute.org

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