There are best practices, standard operating procedures and several types of processes in the business world. Processes help maintain order and provide guidelines for a smooth workflow. They are what ...

I mapped my first business process diagram over 35 years ago when I joined Accenture. I used a hierarchical diagram format called IDEF0 to describe an ERP system we were implementing at a U.K. defense ...

Ask anyone who deals with reengineering the way a company does business, and they can tell you horror stories about getting software to adapt to changing business processes. Currently, enterprise ...

Complex Event Processing, or CEP, takes event processing to a whole new level -- but it is not something to be undertaken by the untrained. The BPM and CEP combination means 'process monitoring on ...

Business process management is a very mature technology and methodology and yet it is finding new uses as companies push for digital transformation. BPM, or business process management, is both a ...

In 1916, a French coal mine director named Henri Fayol wrote a book entitled "Administration Industrielle et Generale," which set forth five distinct functions of managing that Fayol insisted were ...