Business Process Modeling
by
Benedikt Liegener
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Definitions
| Term: Business Process Modeling |
Domain: Cross-cutting issues | ||||
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| Engineering and Design (KM-ED) |
Adaptation and Monitoring (KM-AM) |
Quality Definition, Negotiation and
Assurance (KM-QA) |
Generic (domain independent) |
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| D o m a i n : L a y e r s |
Business Process Management (KM-BPM) |
Process models are needed to help
business managers and analysts understand actual processes and enable them, by visualization
and simulation, to propose improvements. Business process modeling
tools provide a shared environment for the capture, design and
simulation of business processes by business analysts, managers,
architects and other IT professionals. Process models are generally
shown in graphical form for defining or building a business process.
The key elements of a process model are individual activities
performed, the events that trigger actions, the ordering of activities,
the business rules used to support decision making and execution flow,
as well as exception handling and Error handling mechanisms. Modern business
process modeling tools include business process analysis functionality
of capturing, designing, and modifying business processes and their
properties, resource requirements, such as definition and selective
enforcement of process standards. They also facilitate the expression
of business process views at different levels of abstraction depending
on authorization, functional responsibility and the level of detail
desired. Process modeling is a modeling-only environment, not an
execution environment. It can however support simulation. To support
simulation, the models must also embrace characteristics such as
skills, Availability and costs of the people, and
other resources that perform the process. [Papazoglou & Ribbers, 2006] , [Leymann 2000] |
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| Service Composition and
Coordination (KM-SC) |
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| Service Infrastructure (KM-SI) |
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| Generic (domain independent) |
Business Process Modeling is the activity of representing processes of an enterprise, so that the current process may be analyzed and improved [Wiki]. | ||||
Competencies
- Tilburg: Business Process Management; http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/eriss/research/; Willem-Jan van den Heuvel, Khoa Nguyen, Oktay Turetken, Mike Papazoglou
- USTUTT: Business Process Management; http://www.iaas.uni-stuttgart.de/indexE.php; Frank Leymann, Dimka Karastoyanova, Branimir Wetzstein, Olha Danylevych
- FBK: Distributed business processes; http://soa.fbk.eu/research.php#id14; Marco Pistore, Annapaola Marconi, Michele Trainotti
Scenarios
- Original Equipment Automotive Supply Chain (Case study solution -> Process models)
References
- [Papazoglou & Ribbers, 2006] M. P. Papazoglou, and P. M. A. Ribbers, “e-Business: Organizational and Technical Foundations”. J.Wiley & Sons, April 2006.
- [Leymann 2000] Leymann, F., Roller, D., Production Workflow.
Concepts and Techniques. Prentice Hall PTR. Upper Saddle River. New
Jersey 07458, 2000.
- [Wiki] Business Process Modeling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_process_modeling
