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During the evening of 28th September 2011, Jeff Chamberlain, Unit Chair of MPM701ⁱ Business Process Managementⁱ (BPM), presented to the Australian Computer Society's (ACS) recently established BPM Special Interest Group. Jeff was supported by Mike Bengough, a lecturer in BPM at the DGSB. The presentation was titled 'Teaching Businessⁱ Process Management at the Deakin Graduate School of Businessⁱ (DGSB) - A shift in focus from BIS (business information systems) to BPM.'

The MPM701ⁱ Business Process Managementⁱ unit team of the Deakin Graduate School of Businessⁱ is delighted to announce the launch of its new BPM Virtual Community - 'BPMDeakin.'

On the 2nd June, 2011, Nic Tesselaar and Mike Bengough from the MPM701ⁱ Unit Team, attended a presentation by Dr. Daniel Moody titled "The Art (and Science) of Diagramming: Communicating Effectively Using Diagrams". 

On 05/05/2011, Jeff Chamberlain, Unit Chair of MPM701ⁱ BPM, hosted and presented to a mass meeting of BPMLink members at the prestigious Deakin University Melbourne City Centre.

The question: "Why are you doing things like that when it costs so much for so little relative return?" The typical response: "Well,we've always done it this way and we don't want to change something that seems to work." The question is one posed by the brave few. The answer is the shield used most often by the timid, insecure majority.

The Deakin Graduate School of Businessⁱ and the MPM701ⁱ Team are excited about a new partnership forged with the IBM Academic Initiative to deliver further innovation into the MPM701 BPM unit in the form of a 3D BPM simulation game. The game, called Innov8, puts student's BPM skills and knowledge to the test but in a realistic 3D service industry environment. All students of MPM701 receive a copy of the game in their CD Rom study packs and are encouraged to play it during their study revision time at week 12. The game takes about an hour to play.

On 19th and 20th October, 2010, Jeff Chamberlain, MPM701ⁱ BPM Unit Chair, attended the Business Process Managementⁱ Asia Pacific, two day, connected forum at the Grace Hotel, Sydney. This is one of the leading Businessⁱ Process Management events of the year in Australia. At this forum around 14 BPM industry professionals presented a range of BPM centric topics.

In October 2010, several MPM701ⁱ team members officially registered memberships with the Association of Business Process Managementⁱ Professionals (ABPMP). This was another crucial step to ensure connectedness with the worldwide BPM community and to cross check and reaffirm the relevance of the content being delivered into the MPM701 BPM unit at the Deakin Graduate School of Businessⁱ (DGSB).

The Deakin Graduate School of Businessⁱ launched its brand new post graduate unit in Business Process Managementⁱ (MPM701) in Trimester 2, 2010. The unit was developed in response to a very serious and pressing industry need for professionals in the business process management field. The DBS experienced an extraordinary rush of enrolments of over 200 students, keen to develop knowledge, skills and insights that are pertinent to the rapid delivery of tangible business efficiencies and effectiveness. Process management applies across all functions, in all organisations, in all industries and particularly in rapidly changing environments.