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Business process management

Business process management (BPM) is the discipline in which people use various methods to discover, model, analyze, measure, improve, optimize, and automate business processes. Any combination of methods used to manage a company's business processes is BPM. Processes can be structured and repeatable or unstructured and variable. Though not required…

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Business process management

Nodes72
Edges71
Triples83
Avg. degree1.97
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related to External links · 21
Business process management → ABPMP, BPM, Business Process Management ProfessionalsThe, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Synopsis, Commerce, Department, May, National Institute, NIST Definition, NIST Special Publication, Peter Mell, Process, Recommendations, September, Standards, Technology, The, The Association, Timothy Grance
related to Suites · 6
Business process management → BPM, Document-centric BPM, Forrester Research, Human Workflow, Human-centric BPMIntegration-centric BPM, The
related to Internet of things · 5
Business process management → BPM Everywhere, Internet, The, Things, To
related to Cloud computing BPM · 4
Business process management → BPM, Cloud, Cloud BPM, SaaS
related to Definitions · 4
Business process management → BPM, Business Process Management Professionals, The Association, The Workflow Management Coalition
see also · 4
Business process management → Application, Business Process ManagementISO, Conference, Document
related to Comparison with project management · 3
Business process management → If, In, The
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Business process management → BPM, Business, Contemporary
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Business process management → use of
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Business process management → Business

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process business bpm processes management approach application monitoring automation information design also technology tasks software use execution improvement organizations rules

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Business process managementis ause of0.90text
SIPOCsinstance ofSome BPM tools0.80text
process flowsinstance ofSome BPM tools0.80text
RACIsinstance ofSome BPM tools0.80text
CTQsinstance ofSome BPM tools0.80text
histograms allow users toinstance ofSome BPM tools0.80text
designinstance ofLife-cycleBusiness process management activities can be arbitrarily grouped into categories0.80text
modelinginstance ofLife-cycleBusiness process management activities can be arbitrarily grouped into categories0.80text
executioninstance ofLife-cycleBusiness process management activities can be arbitrarily grouped into categories0.80text
monitoringinstance ofLife-cycleBusiness process management activities can be arbitrarily grouped into categories0.80text
and optimization.DesignProcess design encompasses both the identification of existing processesinstance ofLife-cycleBusiness process management activities can be arbitrarily grouped into categories0.80text
the design ofinstance ofLife-cycleBusiness process management activities can be arbitrarily grouped into categories0.80text

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