Wayne Snell, Senior Director of Marketing | February 22nd, 2010
Next week at the Gartner Business Process Management Summit in London, three Lombardi customers will be on hand to share their BPM success stories. The two-day conference is being held at the Lancaster Hotel from March 1-2, 2010.
Time: Monday, March 1, 14:30 – 15:00 in Westbourne 3
Time: Monday, March 1, 15:25 – 16:05 in Westbourne 1
Time: Tuesday, March 2, 11:50 – 12:30 in Westbourne 1
Additionally, Jim Rudden, our global VP of marketing, will be participating in a Premier Sponsor panel discussion on the main stage. That panel, entitled “Speed Predicting,” is being moderated by Daryl Plummer, Managing VP and Gartner Fellow & Jim Sinur, Research VP, Gartner. The panel format is guaranteed to be unlike any you’ve seen in the past, so you won’t want to miss it.
Time: Monday March 1, 11:30 – 12:00 in Wesbourne 3.
While you are at the conference, come by to meet the Lombardi team as well as our new IBM brethren in the Solution Showcase located in the Nine Kings Suite on the ground floor of the hotel. As an added treat, we will be serving a sampling of Champagne, Chocolate and Strawberries on Monday night.
We hope to see you there!
As 2009 comes to an end, Lombardi would like to take this opportunity to thank our customers for an extremely rewarding year. Your successful BPM implementations are the reason that everyone at Lombardi strives to deliver unparalleled products and services. Here are some highlights of 2009 where our customers have won prestigious awards through the use of Blueprint and Teamworks:
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NACCO Materials Handling Group – 2009 CIO 100 Award for automating several processes and introducing the capability to track core processes in real time, eliminating the risk of defective designs entering production.
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WE Energies – Honorable Mention – Gartner “Out of the Box BPM Delivery” Award for improving efficiencies and customer service of their Low Income Pilot Project which helps low income customers change their long term approach to managing their energy consumption and their energy bill.
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Homeloan Management Ltd. UK – 2009 Silver BPM Excellence Award for Europe for their Credit Management Project which has significantly improved the efficiency of the process and also added a much greater level of control.
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Lincoln Trust Company – 2009 Gold BPM Excellence Award for N. America for delivering the most tangible results and benefits to its users which have generated firm metrics including reduced staffing costs, reduction in cycle-times for internal and external stakeholders, and substantial increase in employee productivity.
Congratulations to these and all of our customers for their continued success with BPM – As Lombardi joins the IBM family, we certainly look forward to another remarkable year of customer successes in 2010!
Wayne Snell, Senior Director of Marketing | April 2nd, 2009
Yesterday, ebizQ.net posted a podcast interview that they recorded with our very own Jim Rudden during the Gartner BPM Summit in San Diego last week.
The five minute podcast, hosted by Peter Schooff, ebizQ’s editor, is entitled “BPM Now More Than Ever: Live Podcast With Lombardi,” and summarizes Jim’s presentation from the conference.
We especially enjoyed seeing the comment Peter made that he “always enjoys the opportunity to record a live podcast with one of the big speakers at the event.”
Jim’s session was definitely one of the top draws during the conference, with nearly 200 people attending.
Peter’s interview with Jim (5:23) Listen (Mp3)
Todd Plunk, Marketing Specialist | March 31st, 2009
Last week, Lombardi participated as a premier sponsor of the Gartner BPM Summit held in San Diego, California. This BPM event drew hundreds of like-minded BPM practitioners together to discuss and learn about the latest best practices in the industry. In a time of economic uncertainty, it is vital that businesses see the value that Business Process Management can bring to an organization, so during the conference attendees had the chance to hear from some of the leading voices in the BPM space.
Lombardi’s voice was heard pretty loudly! In addition to a best practices presentation from our Vice President of Global Marketing, Lombardi had four customer speakers at the conference - from PNC, SIRVA, Wells Fargo and StubHub, who are all leading the charge for BPM in their respective companies. With a central message of “Clear Directions. Clear Results.,” the Lombardi team was able to talk with many of the conference attendees about how they can use BPM to deliver success and value to their organizations.
But have no fear, all work and no play make for a long week away from the office. So on Tuesday night, we threw a party with our take on the classic game show “The Price is Right!” Conference attendees had the chance to bid against one another to win fabulous prizes, that is …if the price was right!
Jim Rudden, Vice President of Global Marketing | February 25th, 2009
Last week, Gartner released the latest update to their BPMS Magic Quadrant. I am happy to tell you that Lombardi has been positioned in the “Leaders” quadrant in the report titled: ”2009 Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites.”
Gartner positions vendors in the magic quadrant based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute. Delivering on both of these axes is the big challenge. Good quote from Rod Favaron – our CEO – on exactly this point: “From my perspective, leaders in this analysis must not only have a vision for BPM – they need to demonstrate success in executing that vision.”
2008 was the best year in Lombardi’s history. In 2009, execution is going to be more important than ever – not just for us. Our customers and partners need BPM now more than ever. We are looking forward to the challenge.
Wayne Snell, Senior Director of Marketing | February 20th, 2009
I and several of my colleagues will be in London next week (Feb. 23 – 25) for the Gartner Business Process Management Summit. We are an event sponsor of the three-day event that is themed “BPM: Thrive, Survive, Capitalize.”
We are excited that two of our customers have been scheduled to present at the summit. If you’re there as well, please stop by see their presentations.
Toby Redshaw, CIO at Aviva plc, will provide a BPM end-user case study entitled “Aviva End-User Case Study: Modern BPM – Doing More for Less.” Toby will share his insight on how companies can get started and grow fast with BPM, and offer lessons from what he’s learned from four years in the trenches with modern BPM.
Raju Oak, Head of Process Services at Kleinwort Benson Private Bank, will present his company’s BPM experiences in a case study entitled “How Kleinwort Benson Delivered Clear Results with BPM,” Raju will review how Kleinwort Benson improved the efficiency of their deal settlement processes by 60 percent while at the same time reducing its complexity by nearly 30 percent.
Come out and see us, if you’re at the conference.
Wayne Snell, Senior Director of Marketing | February 2nd, 2009
It’s no shock or surprise that IT budgets are staying flat this year – in fact, a recent Gartner survey of over 1,500 CIOs found flat IT budgets across North American and Europe with slight increases in Latin America but decreases in Asia/Pacific.
It likewise isn’t surprising that business process improvement is once again the #1 priority for businesses.
As Gartner’s Mark MacDonald says: “It’s time for CIOs to develop business process improvement capabilities as part of the core of IT. . .this will enable them to respond to executive expectations that see business processes as important to business performance.”
Continuous process improvement is a mantra that we at Lombardi stand behind every day, as we seek to drive cultural change and badly needed efficiencies across the business.
The economy aside, it’s nice to see that so many organizations are planning to take advantage of the opportunity in 2009 the re-think the way that they operate and find ways to improve efficiency, effectiveness, agility and visibility within their operations. For more on that, look no further than our own Phil Gilbert’s recent thoughts in CIO Magazine.
Check out the Gartner report – it’s a great piece of research and worth a read if you want to see where many other CIO’s see an opportunity to build a competitive edge in 2009.
Wayne Snell, Senior Director of Marketing | September 16th, 2008
This short, 3-minute podcast features Peter Schoof, the editor of ebizQ, and Gene Rawls, VP of Continuous Improvement at Wells Fargo (a Lombardi customer). It was recorded last week at the Gartner BPM Summit in Washington, D.C., where Gene gave a talk titled “How Wells Fargo Built a Cross-Organizational BPM Capability.”
In the podcast, Gene goes over the three categories of gains that the company is pursuing with its BPM initiatives:
- Cost take-out, i.e. improving processes where the company doesn’t need to spend at the level at which it is currently spending
- Cost avoidance, i.e. where the company can avoid an expense altogether
- Revenue increase, which is self explanatory, but just as important as the other two categories, and in some cases even moreso
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Wayne Snell, Senior Director of Marketing | September 5th, 2008
The Lombardi team is gearing up for the Gartner BPM Summit next week, Sept. 10 – 12 in Washington to D.C. If you can make it there, the event will showcase some very interesting and compelling Lombardi customer stories.
Bob Shallow, director of global product development at NACCO Materials Handling Group will share his experiences on a BPM case study panel session during the conference. And Gene Rawls, vice president of continuous improvement at Wells Fargo Financial will present his company’s BPM experiences in a Lombardi-hosted case study session.
From Lombardi, Phil Gilbert, president, will present during a luncheon keynote. During his presentation, “Governing an Enterprise-Wide BPM Program” Phil will share insight into new structural capabilities in chartering and governance needed to make BPM an internal competency to scale the delivery of BPM projects. He’ll also propose five “Charters for BPM Governance” to help companies make the move from “project to program.”
Also from Lombardi will be Toby Cappello, vice present of professional services, to present, “Breaking Down the Three Major Barriers to BPM Success.”
If you’re planning to attend the conference, stop by and see us at booth #10. We’d love to see you there.
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