Architecting business process maps

The Juxtaposition of Enterprise Architecting with a Business Process Management

Nowadays, with relatively mature but steadily increasing scope of the Enterprise Architecture (EA), many organizations struggle to deliver value when using EA in conjunction with Business Process Management (BPM) practices. The challenge is in particular linked to expectation organizations have about which approach is suitable for what when it comes to building the model how the organizations s...

Supporting business process redesign using cognitive maps

Turbulent changes and competitive pressures have forced organizations to constantly change. Business process redesign Ž . BPR has been widely adopted as an organizational change method in the 1990s. Although BPR projects provide the possibility of dramatic performance improvement, many organizations have encountered serious problems due to the lack of commitment to such projects and the difficu...

Suitability of Process Maps for Business Process Simulation in Business Process Renovation Project

Many different methods and techniques can be used for modelling business processes within business process renovation (BPR) projects. There are several techniques and tools that attempt to effectively represent all modelling perspectives and fulfil all goals and objectives but as such generate complex models that are hard to understand and reduce their ease of use. One of widely used techniques...

The Process of Software Architecting

Positioning Architecting Methods in the business - product

The focus of architectural reasoning methods is on the technical design issues. The relation with the business context is discussed: the business itself, people aspects and process and organizational aspects. The goal is to define architecting methods, which can be customized to the business needs, with minimal assumptions about people, process and organization. The operational stakeholders and...