BPMN 2.0 Now An ISO/IEC Standard (ISO/IEC 19510:2013)

If you are not aware, the OMG Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) 2.0 is now an official ISO/IEC standard (ISO/IEC 19510:2013) for modelling business process. It is definitely another milestone for the BPMN 2.0 and BPMN itself since its first release by BPMI in 2004. Read more on the history of BPMN.

Business Process - Enterprise Architecture View vs BPM View

When discussing business process, there is always the confusion on what constitutes a business process. This is not about the boundary of your process model. It is about whether the term "business process" is inclusive of human resource, finance, tools or even time. This article provides the key difference between process of Enterprise Architecture (EA) / Business Architecture (BA) and process based on Business Process Management (BPM).

Adopting BPM for Continuous Process Improvement - Part 2

Moving from the process improvement methods and the challenges in previous article, this article explores two of the building blocks for business process management (BPM) - organizational transformation and BPM technologies - particularly how BPM technologies support the effort in continuous process improvement. Again, as building blocks they are interdependent and work in synergy, not in isolation.

Adopting BPM for Continuous Process Improvement - Part 1

Business process improvement (BPI) aims at improving the effectiveness, efficiency and adaptability of the day-to-day business operation. BPI initiatives that focus on individual business function ignoring the end-to-end business process may end up having detrimental effect on the overall business performance. In addition, it is not uncommon to see BPI projects running in isolation to other business and technology transformation efforts. Such BPI initiatives could achieve short term improvement but a challenge to maintain and sustain continuous process improvement in the organization. The adoption of business process management (BPM), a collection of methods, policies, metrics, roles and technologies, is critical both as an operational and technology strategies to meet the dynamic environments business is in today. These methods, policies, metrics, roles and technologies can be grouped into four key categories of building blocks for adopting BPM – organisational transformation, process improvement, performance measurement, and BPM technologies. As building blocks, they are interdependent and work in synergy. This article explore one of these building blocks, the process improvement methods and the challenges.

Notations for Business Process (Part 2) - Flowchart, FFBD and IDEFØ

Having looked at RAD, EPC and BPMN process diagrams in previous article, let look at other graphical representations for business processes which are around for quite some times. They are definitely the ancestors of process flow diagrams but still well and popular.