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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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