Overview:
The developing models to speak to business process is ordinarily known as Business Process Modelling (BPM). BPM is a necessary piece of business process management, which tends to the outline, support, investigation, and change of business forms in ventures. The center of Business Process Management (BPM) are business process models. A business procedure show organizes an arrangement of exercises to a work process, which satisfies a specific business objective (Gerth, 2013).
This led us to ask what Business Process Management (BPM) is. Business Process Management speaks to one of the center ideas empowering organizations to adaptably respond to the continually changing business conditions (Leopold, 2013).
As we can see both terminologies has abbreviation of BPM but it most used for Business Process Modelling rather than Business Process Management.
Our concern is Business Processes (BPes) which are increasing more ground in controlling how work processes are overseen and taken care of. These parts contribute incredibly to the advancement of vital execution measurements, for example, timeliness, effectiveness and correctness (Yousfi, Saidi, & Dey, 2016).
Business Process Modeling Languages:
There are many languages used to address the business process modelling, the most used languages are Unified Modeling Language Activity Diagrams (ULM-AD), Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) and Event-driven Process Chains (EPC) (Gerth, 2013).
Business Process Modelling and Notation:
The most use language especially for business is BPMN. BPMN has three different diagram types: Business Process Diagrams (BPD), Choreography Diagrams, and Conversation Diagrams (Gerth, 2013).
Example on BPD of the BPMN:
Fig. 1 Source Process Model V modeled as a BPD of the BPMN (Gerth, 2013)
As we can see the structure of the diagram is different shapes from the start to the end of the process.
The shapes used in BMPN is as follows:
Fig. 2 BPMN Start and End Event (Gerth, 2013)
Fig. 3 Selected BPMN Activities (Gerth, 2013)
Fig. 4 BPMN Gateways (Gerth, 2013)
Fig. 5 BPMN Connections (Gerth, 2013)
There are many other different shapes but the most common ones that are mentioned above.
Summary:
Business Process Modelling (BPM) is essentially needed for all organizations to summarize their business processes from purchases, providing services to hiring staff and all other processes. The management can easily review the process and suggest updates/changes to improve the process to save time and increase efficiency of the process.
References:
Gerth, C. (2013). Business Process Models. Change Management. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. doi:https://doi-org.salford.idm.oclc.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38604-6
Leopold, H. (2013). Natural Language in Business Process Models Theoretical Foundations, Techniques, and Applications. Cham Heidelberg: Springer. doi:DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-04175-9
Yousfi, A., Saidi, R., & Dey, A. K. (2016). Variability patterns for business processes in BPMN. Information Systems and e-Business Management, 14, 443-467. doi:DOI 10.1007/s10257-015-0290-7