IMfgE at Wichita State University Paper #1 – Business Process Modeling

Abstract

associated tools. The second article (Kueng & Kawalek, 1997) makes several key points that process models are only a burden if they are misunderstood, implemented poorly, and contribute little to the overall improvement process. The third article (Ramanathan, 1996) reviews the main components of business processes, the objectives of a workflow project, the critical time aspects of project planning and completion, strategic core process improvements, development, integration, and productionizing of the process model, and continuous improvement as the process model matures. This paper provides an overview of these articles and then discusses how specific key concepts from these articles could be incorporated into the student’s current job. What I expected to learn from the first article, “Modelling the Organization: New Concepts and Tools for Re-Engineering ” (Yu, Mylopoulos & Lesperance, 1996), was more detail about different types of business process models, concepts and tools. The models described in this article attempt to go beyond just describing what a business