Industry operations architecture for business process model collections

Abstract

The absence of a holistic industry-centric architecture for processes is an important BPM shortfall that impacts model collections. This paper introduces a Componentized Industry Business Architecture as a vehicle to address this gap and to make processes better integrated with other critical dimensions in organizational design. This architecture provides the foundation for a taxonomy of processes and enables process models to be created or potentially rationalized against a comprehensive framework. Process theory and industrial organization show that processes have different structure and dynamics. However, most processes used in workflows and case management have a similar 'factory' nature, i.e., production processes in the enterprise. The Componentized Industry Business Architecture shows that not all processes that matter follow this type of behavior. Oversight Processes constitute an important example and will be studied in depth. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.