The BPM discipline

Now that we have defined what a business process is, we can start understanding how to manage the way processes interact with our organization. To do so, we will define six different stages that involve business process discovery, modeling, formalizing, execution, monitoring, and improvement. They constitute an iterative lifecycle for our business processes and the way they relate to their context. The following figure shows all the relevant participants and the cyclic nature of BPM:

The BPM discipline

BPM cycle and its participants

The BPM discipline's scope and main goal is to improve the current business situation by planning iterations to solve ...

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