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What is the difference between Business Process Management and workflow ?

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Question added by Mohamed Hamdy Kamal Riad , Senior Solution Architect , IBM
Date Posted: 2014/08/03
Irfan Khan
by Irfan Khan , SR. PROGRAM MANAGER , Automotive Industry

BPM is complete methodology while workflow exaplains any specific steps in work

Business Process Management is Systematic approach and activities aimed at Identifying, execute, document, measure and monitor an organizations business and workflow more effective and efficent ,capable of adapting ever changing business environment.

Workflow is a component of BPM that co ordinates interaction between people and software systems 

Nadeem Mukadam
by Nadeem Mukadam , GENRAL MANAGER , SAI AUTO HYUNDAI

business process management is a process rule guideline for the work to be done.

the worklflow is getting the process executed down the line either top to bottom or from bottom to top

jasmeek singh
by jasmeek singh , Electronics High Technology Business Process Management Global Lead , Accenture

Business process management (BPM) enables organizations to align internal business functions with customer needs, and helps executive determine how to direct, monitor and measure company resources. When properly executed by qualified professionals, business process management has the capacity to reduce costs, enhance efficiency and productivity, and minimize errors and risk – thereby protecting and optimizing corporate resources

Workflows

Describes the end to end function level flow for a particular capability.

Contains all the Business Process Architecture elements like event, function, data, position, department, systems, rules etc.

 

Use Cases for Process flows

 

       Best Practice usage – The process flows can be compared to the industry process flows to see the major deviation and best practices in the industry.

       Process improvement – The ARIS process flow can be used for simulation by providing the real time data. This can give us the pain points and bottle neck areas which can be analyzed to improve the overall process.

       Knowledge Management – the process flow helps storing the actual industry methodology for a particular function. This can be easily used across industries to leverage upon the best practices. This also helps in documenting the tacit knowledge which SME have in their minds.

 

       Reusability – ARIS Process flows can be used for actual system implementation using various BPMS suites.

Ronald Olson
by Ronald Olson , Er , Gerag

Workflow is considered as a type of flow management technology which synchronizes communications between individual and software systems. The workflow objective is to restore the physical movement of documents with the electronic movement of document images in systematic way. You can call it as a set of business processes which is prepared to accomplish all tasks efficiently. For that there is workflow software out there that streamlines the business processes and eliminates manual labor need.

BPM (Business Process Management) is an efficient optimization method which allows business to work in more efficient, effective and robust way. The BPM objective is to manage all business process systematically by using process-centric technology. It is a foundation to coordinate work including entire resources – people, information, machines and systems.

Gyan Prakash
by Gyan Prakash , QA/QC Manager , Indus Business systems Ltd(IBSL)

Workflow is a form of flow management technology that coordinates interactions between people and software systems. It coordinates the flow, the interaction patterns across manual and automized/systemetized tasks. 

Business Process Management(BPM) emphasize a holistic approach to coordinating work across all resources – people, information, machines and systems. Coordinating the interactions across this broader set of resources requires a different approach to workflow.

BPM-enabling technologies, coordinate work across all resources in the same manner; there isn't a specialized language for human performed work vs machine performed work. Which is not the case with Workflow technology.

CA Chintan RAICHURA
by CA Chintan RAICHURA , Business Planning Manager , Al Futtaim Motors

In simple terms, workflow is a subset of any Business Process.

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