Editorial Paper CURRENT TRENDS IN BUSINESS PROCESS MODELLING

Globalisation trends and competitive pressure urge many organisations to radically change business processes. As organisations need to adapt to new trading conditions and respond to competition, various change management approaches such as business process re-engineering (BPR) are being adopted. This management concept relates to the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of an entire business system to achieve significant improvements in business performance (Hammer and Champy, 1993). Business process reengineering and business process change in general have become one of the most popular topics in organisational management creating new ways of doing business.