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.a.1 Business Process Management:......................................................................................2
1.a.2 Business Process Reengineering:....................................................................................2
1.b BPM vs BPR Lifecycle:.........................................................................................................3
1.c Combining BPM and BPR:....................................................................................................4
2. Foundations of BPMN:................................................................................................................4
3. Intermediate BPMN:....................................................................................................................6
3.1 Explaining BPMN Model:.....................................................................................................6
3.2 BPMN Model Review:..........................................................................................................6
3.3 BPMN Models:......................................................................................................................9
3.3.A Scenario 1:.....................................................................................................................9
3.3.B Scenario 2:......................................................................................................................9
3.4 Calculating Competitive Offer:...........................................................................................10
Bibliography:.................................................................................................................................12

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1. Introduction to Business Process Management:
1.a Benefits and Shortcomings:
1.a.1 Business Process Management:
Advantages of Business Process Management:
The main advantage of Business project management is its agile nature. The software can
be used to adapt to new technologies and changing times. The BPM tool is very flexible in
nature. The BPM can help in allowing a process design to be changed and implemented at
minimum costs (Harmon 2019). BPM can also be used to automate duplicate tasks and smoothen
the process increasing productivity. BPM can greatly help in revealing the flaws of the
organization and help in improving those. The business process management can also be used to
make the company processes more transparent and compliance.
Disadvantages of Business Process Management:
The main disadvantage of business process management is its ability to put a hindrance to
innovation. The BPM can be a great tool to increase productivity and efficiency of businesses,
but it can also be quite destructive if not used properly (Vom Brocke & Mendling, 2018). This
limiting innovating is a big problem as innovations in BPM are mostly incremental and the major
innovations that affect our world are of radical type. Hence, BPM limits revolutionary growth by
limiting radical innovations.
1.a.2 Business Process Reengineering:
Advantages of Business Process Reengineering:

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Business process reengineering has many different advantages among which its focus
towards customer is its biggest advantages. The ability to improve the company’s position in the
competitive market and also simultaneously reduce costs is a great feature of business process
reengineering (Qu et al., 2018). BPR also provides the opportunity of continuous change and
improvement as it provides feedback for the process and attaches a strategic overview to it. BPR
also helps in reducing the myopic nature of planning and shifts the focus to the long term goals
and the entire business process. Extra unproductive activities hamper the production of a
company. Hence, BPR can be used to remove these activities and simplify the process.
Disadvantages of Business Process Reengineering:
There are many disadvantages of business process reengineering. The main disadvantage
of BPR is that it was designed to bring massive changes to the concerned company but was able
to bring slight changes in processes (Dorogaia 2019). BPR should not be taken as a process to
cut company expenditure, rather it should be used to improve existing processes. Also many
companies are unable to invest the time, effort and money required for proper implementation of
BPR. BPR is seen automating some processes which it is supposed to redesign. Sometimes BPR
only affects a single department of a company while the other departments are neglected. This
reduces the efficiency of the company as a whole.
1.b BPM vs BPR Lifecycle:
The business process reengineering process incorporates automation while designing its
processes. It believes in automating workforce to increase accuracy and quality. This automation
feature is not available in business process management as it uses continuous change and
discards radical changing method.