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
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What is BPM?
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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
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