Business Process Management

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Business Process Management
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Business Process Management:..........................................................................2
1.a Benefits and Shortcomings:...................................................................................................2
1.b BPM vs BPR Lifecycle:.........................................................................................................4
1.c Combining BPM and BPR:....................................................................................................4
2. Foundations of BPMN:................................................................................................................4
3. Intermediate BPMN:....................................................................................................................5
3.1 Explaining BPMN Model:.....................................................................................................5
3.2 BPMN Model Review:..........................................................................................................5
3.3 BPMN Models:......................................................................................................................8
3.3.A Scenario 1:.....................................................................................................................8
3.3.B Scenario 2:......................................................................................................................9
3.4 Calculating Competitive Offer:.............................................................................................9
Bibliography:.................................................................................................................................11

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1. Introduction to Business Process Management:
1.a Benefits and Shortcomings:
Business Process Management: The main advantage of business process management is
the improvement in productivity. Business process management is capable of finding inefficient
tasks and removing it from the organization. Apart from increased productivity, the business
process management is capable of reducing the expenses of the organization’s operational
processes. The efficiency gained through using the business process management allows the
organization to experience low output-to-expenses ratio. Business process management always
push an organization to innovate and change. These two factors are extremely important part of
business. Changing the processes of an organization is not an easy task. Many organizations have
experienced bad outcome from changing the processes. However, business process management
provides various secure and accurate processes that can be used for changing the business
processes successfully. The organization will be able to change their processes as per
requirement and to meet market competitiveness. Qualifying the processes in an organization is a
very important factor. Business process management provides various processes that can be used
for measuring the effectiveness of the processes.
Apart from the huge advantages that business process management provides their user
organization, it has many disadvantages that an organization must be concerned about. In some
situations, the business process management can be harmful to a business. Though, business
process management can introduce an organization to innovation, it can also limit the innovation
factor. An organization will experience only incremental innovation for using a business process

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management. This illustrates that business process management are incapable of making radical
innovations in an organization.
Business Process Reengineering: If an organization wants to achieve radical changes in
the organizational business process, then business process reengineering can be the perfect
solution. The business process reengineering allows an organization to measure the cycle time,
quality, service and cost. Business process reengineering allows developing leaner, simpler and
more productive business processes. These business processes can successfully upgrade the
operations network competitiveness. In order to solve an organization issues, the conventional
approaches cannot be used in every situation. Critical issues require critical problem solving
techniques and business process reengineering encourages the organization to think
revolutionarily. Therefore, using business process reengineering, an organization can experience
better and efficient solutions to process issues that can be aligned with the aims and the objective
of the organization. The incremental approach of business process management does not make
an organization properly competitive in terms of current market place changes, the business
process reengineering’s radical change approach can solve this issue properly. Often the
organizations may need marketing organization structure to cope with the required business
changes. Only business process reengineering is capable of allowing an organization
transforming to a market structure from job centered or rule driven organization structure.
If an organization requires instant changes in the business processes then business
process reengineering cannot be considered as a solution Due to complexity of implementation
and management, the business process reengineering can only be done by experienced and
skilled personnel who work on high payroll. The business process reengineering often come