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There are many methods and techniques to model business processes. The Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) is a standard and modelling technique to specify business processes using a graphical representation, similar to a flowchart and easily understandable by all business stakeholders, adopted and implemented at the heart of Emakin. The Decision Model and Notation (DMN) is a related standard and modelling technique to specify business rules in the form of decision tables, also present in Emakin’s core.
Process chain
Process-oriented organisations seek to remove the barriers of rigid structural departments and attempt to avoid functional silos in pursuit of business agility, streamlining operations and increasing productivity.
Business processes are designed to be operated by one or more functional business units within an organisation and emphasise the importance of the value chain rather than the partial value contributed by individual units. The produced business value is only realised when the process ends successfully, not upon completion of intermediary stages. Here, the whole is truly greater than the sum of its parts.
Independently of how we represent it, a business process usually contains a set of sequential tasks or sub-processes, each with alternative paths depending on certain conditions, performed to achieve a given objective or produce an expected output. Additionally, each process or sub-process requires some form of input. The input may be received from and the output may be sent to other business processes, other organisational units, or and internal or external stakeholders (e.g. customers).
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Typically, some process tasks will be done manually, while most will be done electronically. The data and information being handled throughout the process may pass through be operated on by manual or electronic tasks in any given order. Ultimately, every task needs to be completed for the process to finish successfully.
Process-oriented organisations seek to remove the barriers of rigid structural departments and attempt to avoid functional silos in pursuit of business agility, streamlining operations and increasing productivity.
Business processes are designed to be operated by one or more functional business units within an organisation and emphasise the importance of the value chain rather than the partial value contributed by individual units. The produced business value is only realised when the process ends successfully, not upon completion of intermediary stages. Here, the whole is truly greater than the sum of its parts.