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OUR WORKSHOPS, PUBLICATIONS AND WEBINARS

Landmark offers a variety of training and education workshops, publications and recorded webinars including those done through our partnerships with other training organizations and consulting firms:

business process analysis & costing (BPAC) workshops

BPAC Awareness

This On-Demand workshop covers the basics of Business Process Analysis & Costing (BPAC) and how it can be used to enhance resource deployment, operations management, and costing/profitability analysis. Part 1 provide an overview of the BPAC methodology and how it supports creating a Digital Twin of an Organization (DTO). Part 2 walks through an actual case study where participants will learn how BPAC implementation techniques, including “what-if” analysis, provide better insights into resource consumption and utilization. Part 3 provides a series of actual use cases for BPAC-DTO.    


Participants will:  

  • Understand operational models to help manage budgets, develop realistic product costs and service fees, and implement meaningful cost recovery strategies 
  • Recognize the impact of resource constraints on product or service delivery costs and budgets 
  • Appreciate the value of collaborative scenario-playing to evaluate efficiency improvements that align with LEAN or other business process improvement initiatives

Watch Part 1 on YouTube

Using BPAC to Create a Digital Twin of an Organization (DTO)

This two-day workshop (delivered in 4 successive half-day sessions) is offered to assist organizations better understand the critical success factors associated with driving a “Business Process Improvement” culture in their organizations. Through the use of real-world examples and an interactive “hands-on” case study, participants come away with “ready to apply” tips and techniques to enhance efficiency and costing initiatives by creating Digital Twin of an Organization (DTO) models.

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Applying Lean Concepts to Enhance a Digital Twin of an Organization (DTO)

This 1.5-day online workshop (delivered in 3 successive half-day sessions) is co-hosted with Barrington OPS. It covers the fundamentals of Integrating Lean DMAIC principles with Business Process Analysis & Costing (BPAC) and how they can be merged into a comprehensive approach for developing or enhancing a Digital Twin of an Organization (DTO).


A DTO is defined by Gartner as “a dynamic software model of any organization that relies on operational and contextual data to understand how an organization operationalizes its business model, connects with its current state, responds to changes, deploys resources and delivers customer value”  


Participants will gain experience in using Lean-BPAC concepts to design operational and financial DTO models that aid in the identification, costing, and elimination of waste. 

Course description and registration

RECENT Publications

Journal of Cost Management, September/October edition, Volume 25, Number 5, Copyright (2021) Thomson Reuters/Tax & Accounting


An overview on how Lean Value Stream Mapping (VSM) can be enhanced via Activity-Based Planning (ABP) concepts for better insights into resource capacity management and costing. The article describes how the Lean DMAIC approach overlaps with a well known 8-Step implementation methodology for ABP. It also describes various Lean and ABP technologies that support this vision of an integrated solution.

Download the ABP-Lean Article (pdf)Download

recorded webinars & VIDEOS

How BPAC enables a DTO model to better manage the Total Cost of Quality (54 mins)

 An overview on how Business Process Analysis & Costing (BPAC) concepts can be used to create Digital Twin of an Organization (DTO) models to help identify, measure and manage the Total Cost of Quality (TCQ) in any business. 

FMI Webinar - Optimizing Resources and Operational Planning by Applying Lean and BPAC at Nova Scotia Crown Lending

Presented at FMI's National Conference in Fall 2021, this 54 min webinar discusses how Nova Scotia Crown Lending applied Lean and BPAC techniques to better understand workload requirements, improve business processes and manage staffing requirements.

Applying BPAC-DTO Technology for Contact Center Costing and Optimization

A short 18 minute video highlighting how a leading-edge BPAC-DTO software, Collaborative Business Planning, can be used for improving Contact Centre operations.


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