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== Overview ==

[[File:Fife-Disciplines-Of-The-BPM.png|thumb|The five disciplines of business process management and their relationships]]

According to the Association of Business Process Management Professionals (ABPMP), business process modeling is one discipline of the five key disciplines within [[business process management|Business Process Management]] that comprises the following five disciplines:(BPM).<ref name="EABPM">Association of Business Process Management Professionals ABPMP (publisher): ''Guide to the Business Process Management common body of knowledge - BPM CBOK®'' in the translated and edited German edition of → European Association of Business Process Management EABPM (publisher): ''Business Process Management Common Body of Knowledge - BPM CBOK®'', 2nd version, Verlag Dr. Götz Schmidt, Gießen 2009, ISBN 978-3-921313-80-0</ref> ^{(Chapter 1.4 CBOK® structure) ← automatic translation from German} The five diciplines are:

* Process modeling : Creating visual or structured representations of business processes to better understand how they work.

* Process modeling

* Process analysis (: understanding the as-is processes and their alignment with the company's objectives – analysis of business activities).

* Process design (: redesign – business process reengineering – or redesign of business processes – business process optimization).

* Process performance measurement (: can focus on the factors of time, cost, capacity, and quality or on the overarching view of [[Kaizen#The seven Muda|waste]]).

* Process transformation (: planned, structured development, technical realization, and transfer to ongoing operations).

However, these disciplines cannot be considered in isolation: Business process modeling always requires a ''business process analysis'' for modeling the as-is processes (see section [[#Analysis of business activities|Analysis of business activities]]) or specifications from ''process design'' for modeling the to-be processes (see sections [[#Business process re-engineering (BPR)|Business process reengineering]] and [[#Business process optimization|Business process optimization]]).

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[[File:Core_process_(quality_management).gif|thumb|Typical breakdown of a '''process map''' into management, core and support processes]]

According to the European Association of Business Process Management EABPM, "there are three different types of end-to-end business processes:

* Leadership processes;

* Execution processes and

* Support processes."<ref name="EABPM"/> ^{(Chapter 2.4 Process types) ← automatic translation from German}

These three process types can be identified in every company and are used in practice almost without exception as the top level for structuring business process models.<ref>Knowledge database: [https://der-prozessmanager.de/aktuell/wissensdatenbank/prozesslandkarte ''In 6 einfachen Schritten zur Prozesslandkarte''], DER PROZESSMANAGER GmbH (last accessed: January 25, 2024)</ref> Instead the term ''leadership processes'' the term ''[[management process]]es'' is typically used. Instead of the term ''execution processes'' the term ''[[Business processes|core process]]es'' has become widely accepted.<ref name="SCHMELZER"/> ^{(Chapter 6.2.1 Objectives and concept) ← automatic translation from German,}<ref name="BECKER-KAHN">Jörg Becker and Dieter Kahn: ''Der Prozess im Fokus'' in Jörg Becker, Martin Kugler and Michael Rosemamm (publisher): ''Prozessmanagement: Ein Leitfaden zur prozessorientierten Organisationsgestaltung'', 2nd corrected and expanded edition, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York 2002, ISBN 3-540-00107-7</ref> ^{(Chapter 1.3 The concept of process) ← automatic translation from German,}<ref name="BECKER-MEISE">Jörg Becker and Volker Meise: ''Strategie und Organisationsrahmen'' in Jörg Becker, Martin Kugler and Michael Rosemamm (publisher): ''Prozessmanagement: Ein Leitfaden zur prozessorientierten Organisationsgestaltung'', 2nd corrected and expanded edition, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York 2002, ISBN 3-540-00107-7</ref> ^{(Chapter 4.12.2 Differentiation between core and support objectives) ← automatic translation from German,}<ref name="SPECK-SCHNETT">Mario Speck and Norbert Schnetgöke: ''Sollmodellierung und Prozessoptimierung'' in Jörg Becker, Martin Kugler and Michael Rosemamm (publisher): ''Prozessmanagement: Ein Leitfaden zur prozessorientierten Organisationsgestaltung'', 2nd corrected and expanded edition, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York 2002, ISBN 3-540-00107-7</ref> ^{(Chapter 6.2.2 Identification and rough draft) ← automatic translation from German}