Business Process Change, 2nd Edition

chapter 4

Process Architecture and Organizational Alignment

THE SECOND PHASE of the BPTrends enterprise methodology focuses on creating a business process architecture for the organization. As we have already suggested, we create a separate enterprise architecture for each value chain, so, in effect, we are really talking about creating a business process architecture for a value chain.

Figure 4.1 BPTrends enterprise methodology.

Different authors and different companies use the term business process architecture in diverse ways. In this book, we will use this term to refer to a body of knowledge about the business processes that comprise a value ...