Process Design, Workflow Development, and Knowledge and Information Transfer

Abstract

This paper describes a new scientific and industrially proven approach to process design, workflow development and deployment and knowledge, information and IT solutions transfer. The new approach is made possible by process oriented methods and thinking, the development of Active Knowledge Models, the rapidly growing availability of workflow methods and tools on the world-wide web(www) and recent advances in collaborative networking. The paper introduces and defines the four structural flows of process, a classification of process hierarchies with characteristic properties, their common Flow Logic, how the Flow Logic is the multi-dimensional net (neural net) for Active Knowledge Models, how processes are mutually descriptive (reflective knowledge) and finally how process design, workflow development and enactment can be achieved and implemented using a holistic approach.