Last time, I challenged organizations and managers to change the way that they collectively think about business processes. Now let's take a closer look at the evolution of this revolution.
Before the Industrial Revolution
Clearly, work with an intended result has been performed since the beginning of mankind. You can call this a process, so what's really new?
The emerging landscape of integration, choreography, notation, and interchange standards in the BPM field are both confusing for practitioners and a fertile research field for researchers. Thankfully there are some efforts from standards groups to clarify the scope of their efforts and the impact of their specifications.
In my book, Business Process Management: Profiting from Process, I emphasized the critical nature of assessing everything we do with a performance lens firmly in place. I also outlined a number of pressures and challenges affecting organizational performance. These still hold true today.
Rules management and process management are both aimed at improving business agility and performance, but they're fundamentally different technologies designed for complementary purposes. So which tasks do you handle in each toolset? We'll show you how to strike the right mix of techniques and score that perfect 10!
Most business processes-loan-approval processes being a good example-contain multiple decision points. At these decision points, certain criteria are evaluated. Based on these criteria or business rules, business processes change their behavior. In essence, these business rules drive the business process.
Rules management and process management are both aimed at improving business agility and performance, but they're fundamentally different technologies designed for complementary purposes. So which tasks do you handle in each toolset?
This paper describes Ontoprocess, a prototype implementation for semantic business process management (sBPM) consisting of a simple rule editor and a process
modelling workbench.
Process modeling and rule modeling languages arernboth used to document organizational policies andrnprocedures. However, little work has been done tornunderstand their synergies and overlap. Understandingrnthe relationship between the two modeling typesrnwould allow organizations to maximize synergies andrnreduce their modeling effort. In this paper we use thernwell-established Bun
The topic-du-jour in BPM circles is the handling of human and automated decision making in processes. Two major areas that intersect here are the management of business rules (such as "customers with more than 100,000 frequent flier miles receive priority treatment when flights are oversold") and business processes (such as "rebook voluntary denied boarding customer"). There has been plenty of wo