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Business Goals, Objectives
Business Basics from the purely Business Point of View

• business fundamentals,
• strategy
• planning and goal-setting
• project management
• marketing
• staffing
• finance

Business Process Concepts and Fundamentals
Fundamental aspects of Business Processes: 

• identifying (discovering) business processes
• characteristics of processes
• as-is process vs. to-be process
• levels of business process modeling
• tying business processes to goals and objectives

Business Process Management Concepts and Fundamentals
Fundamentals of Business Process Management:

• functional vs. process-centric enterprise organization
• styles of process management
• advancements in process management
• stakeholders' roles and responsibilities
• enabling tools of process management

Business Motivation Modeling
Business Modeling Fundamentals - Elements of the Business Motivational Model: 

• business vision
• goals, objectives
• means and ends
• mission
• strategies, tactics
• aspects of business modeling

Business Process Modeling Concepts
Business Process Modeling Fundamentals:

• BPMN Basics
• definition and use of all BPMN elements included in the descriptive and analytic conformance subclasses
• activities;
• grouping elements of a model

Business Process Modeling Skills
Business Process Modeling Skills:

• brief scenario presented either as a BPMN diagram or in a few sentences
• BPMN elements listed in the descriptive and analytic conformance subclasses 

Process Quality, Governance, and Metrics Frameworks
Awareness of Industry Reference Models and Quality, Metrics, and Governance Frameworks:

• awareness of a range of industry frameworks
• APQC Process Classification Framework
• SCOR
• Value Chain Reference Model
• Business Process Maturity Model (BPMM)
• Six Sigma, Balanced Scorecard
• COBIT
• Sarbanes-Oxley