BPM discipline

BPM discipline, noun
business process management discipline, noun

discipline which allows you to model, automate, execute, control, measure and optimise the flow of business activities that span the enterprise’s systems, employees, customers and partners within and beyond the enterprise boundaries

Remark 1: At present, the BPM discipline is the best way to implement process-centric enterprises.

Remark 2: The BPM discipline uses the following types of business artefact:

• events
• processes
• rules
• activities
• roles
• objects (data structures)
• objects (documents)
• audit trails
• key performance indicators
• services