Business Process Modeling 

 

 

 

 

“Business Process Modeling” is the set of activities involved in creating representations of an existing or proposed business process. Business process modeling provides an end-to-end perspective of an organizations primary, supporting and management processes. 

 

 

 

A process model may contain one or more diagrams, information about the objects on the diagram, information about the relationships between the objects, information about the relationships between the objects and their environment, and information about how the objects represented behave or perform. 

 

Why do we Model? 

 

 

• To document an existing process clearly

• To use as a training aide

• To use as an assessment against standards and compliance requirements

• To understand how a process will perform under varying loads or in response to

  some anticipated change

• As the basis for analysis in identifying opportunities for improvement

• To design a new process or new approach for an existing process

• To provide a basis for communication and discussion

• To describe requirements for a new business operation 

 

 

Common Models 

 

Flowcharts

Swimlane maps 

Event Process Chains 

Value Chain 

UML 

IDEF-0 

SIPOC 

Value Stream Mapping  

 

 

 

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