Reference Models: Accelerators and More

Abstract

Quality and speed of the process design have a significant impact on the management of the business process life cycle through the value-driven BPM-Discipline. The information models produced in the process design lay the basis for the implementation, execution, and controlling of processes. The use of flexible next-generation process execution environments requires an input business process models in high-quality syntactical and semantic formats. Ensuring such modeling is of quality can be very time-consuming. The use of appropriate process-modeling tools and even more importantly leveraging process templates that are adapted to company-specific requirements can help tremendously. The use of appropriate business process templates increases the efficiency and effectiveness of the process design phase. A client I have worked with stated that the use of such predefined templates as a starting point of the process design had reduced the design time by over 50%—while maintaining or even increasing the design quality. The process templates are generally called “business process reference models.” Reference models facilitate the achievement of high-quality design while keeping best efficiency.