Business Process Management (BPM) is a discipline used to discover, model, analyze, measure, visualize, improve, optimize, communicate and automate business processes. Business Process Management exists to improve business process through analysis and modeling how a business process currently works, (is or curent state) and how it would work in a changed state or different scenarios (should state or to be state), executing improvements, monitoring the improved process and continually optimizing it.
Attributes of Business Process Management:
- Holistic enterprise management
- Performance driven Business value based.
- Traceable decisions to stakeholder requirements.
- Lines of business process segmentation and handoff workflow
- Process us iterative, specific, meaninful, time-boxed approach

Business Process & Workflow Diagramming
Some common workflow process templates created in Visio might include:
- Swimlane to determine multiple line of business or system handoffs
- Business Process Management Notation to call out workflow integration with tools, process, teams
- Current State/Future State Business Process Workflow
- Technical process or systems mapping
- Application Workflow
Included below are some basic visio diagrams
Business Process Swimlane

Business Process Management Notation


Workflow and Business Process Diagram Examples:
ITIL Service Introduction High Level Process Workflow

Simple High Level Process Workflow

Current/Future State Workflow

Enterprise Change Management Process Workflow

Enterprise Change Advisory Board/Change Control Board Workflow


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