Towards a pivotal-based approach for business process alignment

This paper focuses on business process engineering especially on alignment between business analysis and implementation. Through a Business Process Management approach, different transformations interfere on process models in order to make them executable. To keep the process model consistency from the business model to the IT one, we propose a pivotal metamodel-centric methodology. It aims at keeping or giving all requisite structural and semantic data needed to perform such transformations without loss of information. By this way we can ensure the alignment between business and IT. This article describes the concept of pivotal metamodel and proposes a methodology using such approach. In addition we present an example and the resulting benefits.