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:.........................................................................................................3
1.c Combining BPM and BPR:....................................................................................................3
2. Foundations of BPMN:................................................................................................................3
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 business process management is increasing the
productivity of the processes in all type of industries. The characteristic of business process
management is not restricted to any specific business category or process type (Metzger et al.,
2015). Business process management can identify the loopholes in the current processes. The
loopholes are generated because of time consuming tasks. Business process management can be
used to upgrade those processes to match with the current need and reduce time and resource
consumption. Because the resource consumption of the inefficient processes will be reduced, the
cost of operating the processes will be reduced significantly and organization can experience
more profit (Recker, 2015). Another advantage of business process management is quick change
in processes. The business process management can provide a fast pace outcome to the client. As
the organization does not have to concentrate on developing new processes from scratch, the
time required to implement the changes becomes very less. Organization has all the information
on process input and output. Therefore, only the change in the internal process and introduction
of information technology equipment can introduce an updated process.
The disadvantage of business process management is that organizations can achieve
nothing from it. Often the changes made in the processes are not as expected. Changed processes
often cut cost from one side but include new resources that again increase cost.
Business Process Reengineering: The business process reengineering is known for its
radical alternation it can provide for the organization overall process. As business process
reengineering does not concentrate on existing processes and forces an organization to create

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new process from scratch, the level of innovation is extremely high (Esbenshade et al., 2016).
The organizations that can afford business process reengineering are tend to achieve better result
in market competitiveness. The list of measurement in the business process reengineering is
more than business process management. That is why the client organization can evaluate the
outcome of business process reengineering approach accurately and effectively (Widigdo et al.,
2016). As the processes needs to be developed from scratch, the organizations will experience
more innovative changes.
Time needed to be develop a process through business process reengineering is much
more. As the complexity of business process reengineering is very high the chance of failure is
also high (Esbenshade et al., 2016).
1.b BPM vs BPR Lifecycle:
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1.c Combining BPM and BPR:
Business Process Management allows an organization to quickly change the processes in
incremental way. On the other hand, Business Process Reengineering requires developing a
process from scratch. Therefore, the Business Process Management and Business Process
Reengineering together can be used only in continuous improvement. Because continuous
improvement provides scopes for both new process design and update of existing process. The
BPR can be used for creating new processes from scratch. BPR can be seen in the cases where
organization needs new system or wants to add new departments or processes.
2. Foundations of BPMN:
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