{"id":428,"date":"2014-07-04T15:21:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T15:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memecon.info\/?p=428"},"modified":"2018-05-18T08:03:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T08:03:11","slug":"the-process-the-unknown-entity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.memecon.info\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":"The process – the unknown entity"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the 90s of the last millennium Business Process Reengineering, briefly BPR, swept over large enterprises. Companies streamlined initially in-house and eventually inter-company processes as part of lean management. This wave has weakened in English-language environment after a hype in the second half of the nineties (see Ngram: http:\/\/ow.ly\/yJq6p)<\/a>. The interest in the business process rose continuously in German-speaking countries (see Ngram: http:\/\/ow.ly\/yJr5n<\/a>). Everybody talks regularly of processes, workflows and continuous process improvement without the defined features that make the sequence to a process. The process – the unknown entity.<\/p>\n

\"Prozess\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The process-oriented description of functions and\/or activities, the so-called process, consists of individual steps. Those again are functions that consist of individual steps, and so on, independent of the format that is used for depiction *1. The documentation of the sequences facilitates the planning, the realization, the monitoring and the redesigning. Few people are aware of the fact that the description of the process is not the reality. The same way as thematic maps only provide a look at geological, political or economical details, the process consists of relevant steps. Additionally, a process has the following, formal criteria.<\/p>\n

A process\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n