Introduction
The Business Process Model Notation (BPMN) is a graphical representation for specifying business processes in a business process model. The objective of BPMN is to support business process management, for both technical users and business users, by providing a notation that is intuitive to business users, yet able to represent complex process semantics (as explained by Wikipedia).
BPMN is an easy-to-express and insightful graphical representation that can be simple to understand by business users and technical users.
Process Map
Some of the advantages of using a BPMN includes
- A clear and easy way to capture and document business processes of a firm that ensures relevant stakeholders, such as, process owners and business users understand the same
- BPMN provide comprehensive and yet rich notations that can easily be understood by both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- An industry standard developed by a consortium, provides businesses with the capability of defining and understanding their end-to-end process through Business Process Diagrams
- A standard notation that is easy to interpret by all business stakeholders
- The communication gap that frequently occurs between business process design and implementation is bridged using a BPMN
- As BPMN is a standard notation easy for exchange across other system providers and adds a lot of value to digital transformation projects
The first step in any transformation or improvement project in a firm is to understand how the business operates. Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), provides a graphical representation of business workflows that anyone, from business analyst to stakeholder, can easily understand, aiding in business process analysis and business process improvements. Any process described with BPMN is represented as a number of steps (activities) that are performed consequently or at the same time according to certain business rules.
Take a look at an example of an “Account opening” process using a BPMN which is typically used by banks and financial firms.
