Business Process Modeling: Blueprinting
This work addresses business process modeling for researchers and practitioners, but it is incremental as it builds on existing tools like Blueworks.
The paper tackles the problem of capturing business processes by proposing a flow-based methodology, demonstrated through re-modeling an IBM Blueworks case study, showing it as a viable alternative approach.
This paper presents a flow-based methodology for capturing processes specified in business process modeling. The proposed methodology is demonstrated through re-modeling of an IBM Blueworks case study. While the Blueworks approach offers a well-proven tool in the field, this should not discourage workers from exploring other ways of thinking about effectively capturing processes. The diagrammatic representation presented here demonstrates a viable methodology in this context. It is hoped this explicit analysis of diverse fundamental approaches will benefit the research in the field and also advance current practices.