What Every Enterprise Architect Needs to Know About BPM

Slide 1:What every Enterprise Architect needs to know about BPM Michael zur Muehlen, Ph.D. Center of Excellence in Business Process Innovation Howe School of Technology Management Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken NJ Michael.zurMuehlen@stevens.edu 1

Slide 2:What is BPM? 2

Slide 3:What is BPM? Let’s start with the process definition: A Business Process is the temporal and logical sequence of those activities that are necessary to manipulate an economically relevant object toward an overarching goal, creating value for a customer 2

Slide 4: What is BPM? Business Process Management is comprised of the methods and tools that allow us to answer: How do we make our processes perform better? How do we maintain required compliance? And, by the way: What are our processe