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"A practical tool that guides where effort should be focussed as problem-solving proceeds." Vic Gee, Mind-Mapping.org
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"Southbeach has an important plus - the models are readily understood by non-technical personnel"
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Presentations and white papers
If a presentation or paper is not available for download, you may request a copy by writing to feedback@southbeachinc.com
Red, Green and Blue - Situational Improvement using Southbeach
BPTrends has published a major article on some of the ways Southbeach is used by management consultants.
" In this Article, Howard Smith explains how southbeach Diagrams can provide a visual technique for problem solving and for change management that everyone involved can understand and act on without losing important details. Read his detailed road map for getting all stakeholders on the same page in working toward a successful solution to problem situations. " BPTrends Advisor, January 2011
Southbeach @ The FAN Club
Southbeach was invited to speak at the FAN Club, December 8th, 2009. What's New In Futures?
The FAN Club is the forecasting analyst's network, sponsored by the Foresight, Horizon Scanning Center, Government Office for Science, Department of Business, Innovation & Skills.
2009 GE Whitney Symposium
CSC's Howard Smith was invited to present P-TRIZ and Southbeach at the 2009 GE Whitney Symposium: The Engineering of Customer Services, June 22-23, 2009, GE Global Research Center, Niskayuna, New York.
The Modeling of Creativity - BPM 2009
Howard Smith of CSC and Mark Burnett of BearingPoint UK presented a half day seminar on "The Modeling of Creativity" at IRM's BPM 2009, Sept 28-30.
BPM Europe 2008
CSC's Howard Smith presented a keynote speech at BPM Europe 2008 which introduced Southbeach Notation: A Marriage of Innovation and Business Process Management - Applying the Methods of Innovation to Re-Invent Business Process
"Companies have no end of tools and techniques to help them to analyse process performance and to bring new processes to life as automated Web services. But how do you decide where to focus your effort? Can the process of process change be conducted on a more scientific than the past era of re-engineering by Powerpoint?"
Process Invention - Shared Insights, Boston, Nov 2006
CSC's Howard Smith presented 'Process Invention' at Shared Insights, Boston, Nov, 2006. The vision for Southbeach Notation was compared with the development of the modern BPMS and BPMN and supported by a Fortune 50 case study.
P-TRIZ presentation at the British Computer Society (BCS), London, March 2006
CSC's Howard Smith was invited to present P-TRIZ at the BCS, London. The three hour seminar focussed on the rationale for extending modern TRIZ to the process domain. The need for meshing innovation modeling languages to BPMN was described.
Leading Edge Forum, TRIZ for CIOs
Howard Smith of CSC and Mark Burnett (now working at BearingPoint UK) presented "TRIZ for CIOs - The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving", to CSC's Leading Edge Forum, May 2005. The webinar to CSC clients worldwide focussed on how TRIZ was being applied in the world. It described the work of CSC to develop a TRIZ competency.
Innovate Europe 2005
The early ideas for Southbeach Notation and Tools were first described in public at a presentation entitled Improve Everything Always. It was presented at Innovate Europe 2005, and hosted by Imaginatik.
The climate of globalization and commoditization was used as the backdrop to set forth a view of a new generation of a design driven (executable) software platform for innovation.
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