As a starting point, the two-day workshop centers around these questions:

• What is an ontology?
• What is a knowledge base?
• Why think about using an ontology for business process design? What are the benefits?
• How mature are current public standards?
• How is ontology design different from object-oriented design?
• What standards should a Business Process Management Ontology be based on?
• What are the major characteristics of the Business Process Management Ontology?
• How can the Business Process Management Ontology contribute to the better alignment of IT with business?
• Using the Business Process Management Ontology as a starting point for customization - What would it involve?
• Extending the Business Process Management Ontology - What would it involve?
• How to generate design and development artifacts from the Business Process Management Ontology?

The above agenda can be tailored to your specific needs, and, of course, items can be added, so that issues specific to your organization can be addressed.

The workshop is targeted at members of CIO staff, business and IT strategists, business analysts, IT architects, and system designers.