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The DNA of Business

Scientific approach and methodology

Complex organizations can quickly and easily describe and define their business operations.

Essentially genetically engineer business processes.

Using a method and system of diagrams based on an intuitive framework of Five W's (who does what, with which information, where and when), we give our clients a comprehensive view of their enterprise - one that clarifies the complex relationships between information, people, resources and technology.

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About Us

Who we are

Founded in 2000 by business and information technology executives with over 30 years of experience, BusinessGenetics developed a unique method to address the greatest challenges that organizations face.

The complexity and distributed nature of most businesses makes it difficult for business leaders to have a comprehensive understanding of how the business is operating, both in its current state and how it needs to operate.

BusinessGenetics has a solution that has been proven with over 500 projects and leading Federal organizations.

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Software

Business Process Modeler

BusinessGenetics W5 Modeler is a business process modeling tool that leverages the business modeling language (BML) to discover, model & extract the most comprehensive 5 dimensional view of your business - one that precisely depicts the complexity & intricate choreography of your business operations.

Based on 5 simple questions (who does what, with which information, where and when) our business friendly methodology provides our clients with a set of tools and systematic approach that helps one clearly understand and analyze their business.

BusinessGenetics Business Requirements Auto-Generator uses business modeling language, to gather accurate and actionable business requirements. This new approach represents a significant evolution in being able to bridge the gap between the business and IT by automatically generating business requirements.

Available Editions

Reader

Provides the ability to read xBML business process models. It excludes basic reports, such as, dimension dictionary, dimensional relationship list, profile filter report, object notes report.

Modeler

Provides the ability to read and write xBML business process models. It includes basic reports, such as, dimension dictionary, dimensional relationship list, profile filter report, object notes report.

Report Writer

Unlike "static" drawing tools, the W5 report writer enables extraction and manipulation of W5 data to support business Optimization efforts, operations costing, business scenario comparison and much more.

BRD Generator

Believed to be the world's first "inference engine" for automatically deriving detailed and quality business requirements from business models. Supports AGILE/Iterative Business Requirements, Waterfall and Bimodal.

Try the modeler edition for free for 30 days.

What we offer

Why use our solutions?

Quickly and intuitively provide a complete and consistent definition of the business.

Easily extract the data the way you want it, when you want it.

Make the data easily accessible to anyone anywhere at anytime.

Integrate with existing enterprise systems.

Empower your enterprise users using data to make BPA enabled business decisions based on facts, not speculation.

Training Modules

Module 1 - Foundation: Provide an overview of the business process modelling (BPM) industry and landscape.

Module 2 - Modelling Business operations: Provide a detailed understanding of how to model business operations using the latest framework and method, the 5W approach.

Module 3 - Analyzing: Demonstrate a comprehensive set of methods and techniques to analyze a business process model for dramatic business improvement.

Module 4 - Business Requirements: Demonstrate how to 'extract and generate' business requirements using a world first "Inference engine".

Module 5 - Communicating: Show the necessary 'soft skills' that an effective business analyst must be able to apply, for example, communicating, facilitating, conflict resolution, presentation and leadership.

Module 6 - Sustainability: Demonstrate an understanding of how to embed sustainability in the BPM process, show how to address business analysis issues that pertain to sustainability imperatives and outline the role of the Business Analyst.

Professional Services

Training

Provide insights into the potential application of BPM in modern organizations with a strong emphasis on "new ways of working".

Mentorship

BusinessGenetics provides BAs with on-site or remote mentorship after successful completion of training modules. Mentorship ensures that methods, concepts and techniques learned are successfully leveraged in the work environment. Local scenarios not encountered in the classroom are also addressed and training content is practically reinforced.

Consulting

We can rapidly and discreetly analyze and assess existing BA/BPM capabilities and competencies. Based on the outcome we are able to deliver a comprehensive flight plan to uplift this capability. Benefits will be captured in a Business Case for Leadership approval.

Study Material

A revolutionary way to describe business, xBML (extended Business Modelling Language) is an intuitive graphical language that unlocks the DNA of a corporation using a system of diagrams based on five Ws (Who; What; Which; Where; When). xBML gives companies an complete and accurate map of their enterprise, that can then be re-used repeatedly to describe, plan and create improvement.

Business Genetics: Understanding 21st Century Corporations using xBML

Cedric G. Tyler, Stephen R. Baker

It's time to throw out the flow charts. xBML breaks down the silos of an enterprise and provides the means for clear, concise communication between all members of the organization. Tyler and Baker provide a complete guide to xBML, and to why unlocking an organization's Business Genetics will lead to quantifiable business improvement.

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Meet the CEO

Cedric Tyler

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Cedric is a leading global expert in the Business Process and Analysis field. He has been recognized by International Analyst groups (Gartner, Forester, etc.), Academic institutions, the US Federal Government and has been instrumental in supporting the evolution and development of the BPM/BA Industry worldwide...

Clients and testimonials

What BusinessGenetics does for us is give us a rigorous framework for describing the activities of the business.

-- Peter Moon, Microsoft Program Management Practice Owner

The way they presented their solutions sets them apart from the rest. They captured the interaction of data and systems better than anything we've ever seen.

-- Rungston Samroengraja, VP, Business Process Engineering, Pitney Bowes

BML has helped enable Wachovia's IT Division to move toward a high performing, top quartile, service provider. All corporate initiatives should be driven by a consistent description of the business that BML provides.

-- Amy Nichols, SVP, Director Shared Services, Wachovia

BML allowed IT and the business to work together in an unprecedented fashion to produce the right requirements at the right level to solve very challenging problems, something that had never happened before!

-- Pete Fischer, Corporate Express

The results are remarkable. They can get a complete, unambigious representation of business activities using a simple methodology that business people take to.

-- Bill Rosser, Distinguished Analyst, Gartner

A unique methodology that combines project management, process improvement and business operations concepts and presents a graphical representation which is easy to understand. BML models make sense and can be used to take your business to the next level.

-- Chris Lewis, Directory, Qwest Communications

BusinessGenetics (leadership) have a means to simulate its the company's existence in the real world and make changes to save time and resources.

-- Lynn Berry, Business Reporter, Denver Business Journal

In an IT organization of some 170 people, the ability of BML to move quickly to a solution has been the major advantage for us. We no longer start with a room full of expensive people and a blank white board. Using BML we utilized very few subject matter experts to provide a basis for validation. This process is accurate and efficient.

-- Rick Malinowski, Director IT, Dept. of Personnel and Administration, State of Colorado

The best requirements we have ever seen.

-- WIPRO, Offshore Outsourcing Provider

BML is designed to provide businesses with a blueprint for mapping and viewing an entire enterprise.

-- Mark Jones, Into World

Case Studies

Nation's Top Brewing Companies

Finance Executives believed that there was significant opportunity for savings within their manual Finance accounting and reporting operations. Although the company had purchased and installed SAP, several challenges still existed...DOWNLOAD STUDY

Northeast Pennsylvania Utility

In mid-2004, a major Northeast Pennsylvania utility which sells energy in key U.S. markets and delivers electricity to customers in Pennsylvania, the United Kingdom and Latin America, undertook a strategic initiative at one of its nuclear...DOWNLOAD STUDY

USDA FS Inventory and Monitoring Institute

In the Fall of 2000, the USDA FS Inventory and Monitoring Institute (IMI) initiated an internal project to explore the use of the BusinessGenetics proprietary Business Process Analysis methodology in extracting and understanding of...DOWNLOAD STUDY

Fourth-Largest Financial Company in US

The financial company's chief executive launched a dramatic new enterprise vision in 2002 and challenged the entire bank. IT responded by gathering its leaders to examine how IT should respond to meet the new...DOWNLOAD STUDY

Identity Management at the National Institutes of Health

The NIH, an operating division (OP-DIV) of the US Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research, investing over $28B annually...DOWNLOAD STUDY

2WIRE, INC. Process Center of Excellence

In 2009, 2Wire, a designer and manufacturer of modems and gateways based in San Jose, California, began conversations with BusinessGenetics around their business modeling...DOWNLOAD STUDY

Process for a Multinational Software Company

The main difficulty is the transfer of information from one department (or system) to another. At various junctions throughout the onboarding process, the transfer of information requires manual...DOWNLOAD STUDY

Telecommunications Sales Process

Generally large IT driven companies, in this case a Telecommunications firm, focus on IT systems and the activities that are needed to support those systems. This train of thought...DOWNLOAD STUDY

Partners

DataSimplified creates the perfect solution for your problem or need. We specialise in really listening to customer's needs, their problems and proposing a Simple and cost-effective solution to the problem. It all starts with an Advanced ETL solution, to integrate disjointed and unmatched data sets running on different technology platforms, to Extract and then Transform this data before loading it into a different destination system. Working with the customer to design a solution that carters for their needs and is future proof for years to come.

The learnership is part of the six-month Business Analysis programme offered by Rhodes Business School. The programme was launched in 2012 and this is the second intake of graduates on the programme, from which Standard Bank has hired 100%. "Partnering with Rhodes Business School academics has proven to be a true win-win situation and we have already made significant inroads into addressing the local business analysis skills shortage. This programme is one of the most compelling reasons why I'm proud to be an Old Rhodian." - Cedric Tyler, Business Genetics

DRIVING BUSINESS AGILITY AND PERFORMANCE

Helping organisations execute change by converting strategy to reality and solving complex business problems.

Contact us

United States of America

BusinessGenetics, Inc.

8494 West Fork Road Boulder, CO 80302-9321

+1 720 213 4500

South Africa

BusinessGenetics (PTY) LTD

920 Ashby Estate, 212 Bowling Avenue, Woodmead 2191 South Africa

+27 (0)71 612 9638

Australia

BusinessGenetics (PTY) LTD

Suite 2, Level One North, 63 Miller Street, Pyrmont, Sydney NSW 2009

+61 (0)406 371 145