Simple Business Process Modelling Using Spreadsheets

Because business process modelling techniques and tools exist in numerous variants, I’d like to share a very simple and practical process modelling approach. The software which is used is a simple spreadsheet software, and the process modelling technique is based on the Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN). Roles / departments are modelled as so-called swim …

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Comprehensibility of Process Models

Doris Weitlaner presented her paper on “Intuitive Comprehensibility of Process Models” at the conference “S-BPM One 2013”. The study empirically examines the use of semiformal process modeling languages in companies. It could be revealed that formal BPM has still not been accepted as a useful practice in firms. Corporations mainly rely on flowcharts in order …

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Modeling Business Processes with the Event-Driven Process Chain (EPC)

This article gives a brief introduction into modeling business processes by using the Event-Driven Process Chain. The Event-driven Process Chain (EPC) is a type of flowchart and was developed by Prof. Wilhelm-August Scheer at the Universität des Saarlandes in the early 1990s. There are four basic elements of the EPC: Events: The event describes the …

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