• Importance of BPM in organizations
• BPM lifecycle overview
• BPM goals and benefits
• Process-driven organizations
• BPM use cases across industries
• Types of business processes
• Core, support, and management processes
• Process owners and stakeholders
• Process boundaries and triggers
• End-to-end process view
• Process discovery
• Process analysis
• Process redesign and optimization
• Process implementation
• Process monitoring and control
• Introduction to BPMN
• BPMN symbols and notations
• Process flow diagrams
• Swimlanes and subprocesses
• Modeling best practices
• Creating as-is process maps
• Designing to-be process maps
• Process flowcharts
• Process documentation standards
• Version control for process documents
• Bottleneck analysis
• Root cause analysis
• Process performance metrics
• Continuous improvement techniques
• Lean and Six Sigma basics
• Rule identification and documentation
• Decision modeling basics
• Rule enforcement in processes
• Change management for rules
• Governance of business rules
• BPM software features
• Workflow engines basics
• Automation capabilities
• Low-code and no-code BPM
• Tool selection criteria
• Human and system tasks
• Straight-through processing
• Exception handling
• Integration with IT systems
• Automation best practices
• Process ownership and accountability
• Compliance requirements
• Audit trails and controls
• Risk management
• Process standardization
• Measuring process performance
• Dashboards and reports
• SLA management
• Continuous monitoring
• Data-driven decision making







