Free Web Seminar - Navigation Tips for Exploring the IIBA BABOK 2.0

Date: Wed, Oct 7, 2009
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

Have you ever gotten lost when traversing through the IIBA® BABOK® 2.0? How quickly can you find pathways through the Guide? How easily can you trace your way from one key element to another? Whether you are new to the discipline of business analysis, someone studying for the CBAP® or even a seasoned business analysis professional, navigating through the BABOK® can be a daunting task.

In this webinar we’ll explore a variety of pathways through the BABOK. Your navigator for the session is requirements guru Mary Gorman, a four year veteran of the IIBA Body of Knowledge Committee.

IIBA® International Institute of Business Analysis®
BABOK® Business Analysis Body of Knowledge®

What you will learn:

• Visualize the underlying foundation of the BABOK® (knowledge areas, tasks, techniques and requirements models)
• Trace foundation elements throughout the BABOK®
• Apply analysis modeling techniques to navigate the BABOK®

Speaker:
Mary Gorman, CBAP™, Senior Associate at EBG Consulting, assists teams to build the right product through exploring, analyzing and confirming their requirements. Mary has over 25 years experience as a consultant, mentor, trainer, facilitator, process engineer, developer, and analyst. In addition to serving on the IIBA Body of Knowledge Committee, Mary also helped create the certification exam for the Certified Business Analysis Professional™ (CBAP™).

Register below, mention priority code M2120W3BLOG
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/974065696

Reminder: Free Webinar Next Week by Tony Byrne of CMS Watch: Enterprise Social Software: Ready for Prime Time?

Next Thursday, the IT Leadership Forum in association with Tony Byrne, founder of CMS Watch, will present a one-hour long web seminar on Thursday, August 13th from 2:00 - 3:00 PM EDT. Here's a brief description of that web seminar.

You can now find numerous case studies of successful departmental implementations of various social software technologies, such as wikis, blogs, forums, tags, micro-blogs, and so forth. However, extending those projects to enterprise-wide initiatives gets trickier.

Noted independent analyst and evaluation firm CMS Watch will explain how the challenge in enterprise deployments stems partly from immature technology. Many social computing tools – even from large, established vendors – lack key functionality. But the rest of the challenge lies in organizational factors, including common barriers to adoption.

This seminar will assess today’s social software and collaboration marketplace and offer concrete advice about how to select the right tool for your circumstances. It will also share best practices in enterprise deployment and adoption of social technology.

What you will learn by attending:
- Key success factors for enterprise-wide social software roll-outs
- How the enterprise social software marketplace breaks down into six categories
- Strengths and weaknesses of some of the major vendors
- How to pick the right tools for your enterprise
- What the future holds for 2010

Featured Speaker
Tony Byrne, Founder, CMS Watch

Register here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/345059881
Mention Priority code G1M2114W1BLOG

Web Seminar: "Core Concepts to Portal Strategy"

We invite you to watch the archived version of our webinar "Core Concepts to Portal Strategy". This webinar discussed portal strategy whether you are deploying a portal for the first time, will be upgrading to a new software version, or deciding if an enterprise portal is right for your organization. The main takeaways from the presentation are:

• Understand the primary topics involved in developing an effective portal strategy
• Information architecture as it relates to document libraries and site navigation
• Relationships between portal security, content management, and governance
• Developing consistent page layouts and iterative development
• Training and communication best practices

Watch the web seminar here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/434218814

How to Improve Enterprise Technology Projects

In this complimentary webinar, Jack Bergstrand, CEO, Brand Velocity, and Terry Assink, Group President, Brand Velocity, share Best Practices to Ensure your Enterprise Technology Projects are a Success. This free webinar will take place on Thursday October 2nd from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT. Mention priority code G1M2014W2BL when registering. Here’s the description for the webinar:

Facing such historical economic hard times, senior management is looking to the IT departments and business to work together to produce more measurable and innovative ways to streamline and enhance processes that will make a positive impact to the bottom line. And where IT can not contribute to a positive business outcome, the pressure is mounting to cut costs.

Unfortunately, most organizations consider their Enterprise project launches unsuccessful and non-technical business issues cause 70 percent of large enterprise technology projects to fall behind or fail completely. It is critical to rapidly identify and overcome these issues.

Executives and board members need a faster path to enterprise technology project success. Enterprise projects can be improved and accelerated using a different approach.

Jack Bergstrand and Terry Assink will share their expertise to help you and your team gain more insight to the following:

• What is the failure rate of large Enterprise technology projects?
• Who are the major players involved in a company’s technology project?
• Why do large technology projects go wrong so often?
• How can board members and CEOs recognize early warning signs that a large technology project will go or is going off track?
• What should the CEO and Board do to steer the technology project back on course?

Register for the free webinar here.
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/625744907

Evaluating SharePoint from a Business Perspective: A Webinar Presented by CMS Watch

We’d like to invite you to attend the Evaluating SharePoint from a Business Perspective webinar. Tony Bryne, the founder of CMS Watch, will be our featured speaker. Register to view the webinar on Thursday, April 24^th from 2:00 to 3:00 pm eastern standard time.

About the presentation:

SharePoint 2007 is taking the world by storm, partly because of its breadth of services, but also because it is easy to install and seemingly inexpensive. Yet, the proliferation of SharePoint sites within the enterprise inevitably raises hard questions about where the product truly excels and where it does not. Enterprises around the globe are struggling to “fit” SharePoint into their broader information management strategies.

This seminar will review SharePoint from a business perspective, comparing its information management services to other toolsets in the industry, with a particular look at Portal, Collaboration, and Web 2.0 services. It concludes with selected “do’s” and “don’ts” for enterprises seeking to take a more methodical approach to their use of SharePoint.

What you will learn by attending:

• The eight core business services that SharePoint offers
• How SharePoint compares to other Portal and Collaboration tools
• Where SharePoint is easy, and where it gets hard
• Do’s and Don’ts for leveraging SharePoint properly

About the Speaker
Tony Byrne, Founder
CMS Watch

Tony Byrne is founder of CMS Watch (www.cmswatch.com), an independent analyst firm that evaluates content technologies on behalf of solutions buyers. Tony was part of a team of analysts who researched the CMS Watch SharePoint Report 2008, a 200-pp evaluation of SharePoint.

This is a webinar in order to support the Enterprise³ Conference, May 19^th through 22^nd in San Diego, California.

Mention Priority Code: BlogMWS0011

We hope you can join us for this webinar with the founder of CMS Watch! Register today for this webinar.

Enterprise 2.0 - 101

Yet another successful webinar under the belt! First off I want to thank all those who attended Colin White’s presentation “The Importance of Enterprise 2.0” yesterday. This was a detailed but easy to understand compilation of benefits of Enterprise 2.0, that anyone from business professionals and IT management can learn from.

Here’s the presentation for those who missed the chance to view the webinar yesterday, or if you just want a quick refresher of the ideas discussed. Feel free to share this presentation with friends and colleagues.

As always, we’ll be posting valuable webinars here in the future. On Monday we’ll highlight our newest webinar presented by Tony Byrne, founder of CMS Watch.

Enjoy!

Colin White, Conference Chair of E³ presents: The Importance of Enterprise 2.0

We’d like to invite you to attend the web seminar The Importance of Enterprise 2.0 presented by Colin White, the chair of the Enterprise³ Conference. Colin White will be our featured speaker. Register to view the webinar on Thursday, April 17, from 2:00 to 3:00 pm eastern standard time.

About the presentation:
Enterprise 2.0 approaches are changing the way organizations create, publish, and share information. Used wisely, Enterprise 2.0 can provide significant improvements to both the business and IT. Deploying Enterprise 2.0 techniques and technologies, however, requires careful planning. This Web seminar presents a status report on Enterprise 2.0 and reviews best practices for its implementation.

What you will gain from attending this web seminar:
-Introduction to Enterprise 2.0
-How your business can benefit
-Developing an enterprise strategy

About the Speaker: Colin White, Founder and President BI Research Colin White is well known for his in-depth knowledge of leading-edge business intelligence and business integration technologies and how they can be integrated into an IT infrastructure for building and supporting the Smart Business. With over 35 years of IT experience, he has consulted for dozens of companies throughout the world and is a frequent speaker at leading IT events. Colin has co-authored several books and has written numerous articles on business intelligence and enterprise business integration. He is currently conference chair for the Institute for International Research’s Enterprise³ Portals / Collaboration / Web Conference and writes regular columns for both DM Review and the B-Eye-Network.

Click here to register today!


The Enterprise³ event is taking place May 19th through the 22nd at the Hilton in San Diego, California. To learn more about the event, visit its website here.