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Usually, a business model is created after conducting an interview, which is part of the [[business analysis]] process. The interview consists of a facilitator asking a series of questions to extract information about the subject business process. The interviewer is referred to as a facilitator to emphasize that it is the participants, not the facilitator, who provide the business process information. Although the facilitator should have some knowledge of the subject business process, but this is not as important as the mastery of a pragmatic and rigorous method interviewing business experts. The method is important because for most enterprises a team of facilitators is needed to collect information across the enterprise, and the findings of all the interviewers must be compiled and integrated once completed.<ref name="SS93"/>

Business models are developed asto definingdefine either the current state of the process, resulting in which case the final product is called the "'as is"' snapshot model, or a conceptvision of what the process should becomeevolve into, resultingleading into a "'to be"' model. By comparing and contrasting "the 'as is"' and "'to be"' models the, business analysts can determine if the existing business processes and information systems are sound and only needrequire minor modifications, or if reengineering is requirednecessary to correctenhance problemsefficiency. orAs improvea efficiency. Consequentlyresult, business process modeling and subsequent analysis can be used to fundamentally reshape the way an enterprise conducts its operations.<ref name="SS93"/>

=== Business process re-engineering ===