The Workflow

Understanding a company and its business is a very difficult task. You need to understand what the company does and the activities involved, what information exists, who the customers and partners are, and much more. You need to understand not only the company's business today but also the direction it is going and its vision over both the short and long term.

Most organizations have no standard way to describe their business in detail and, especially, no way to model the business. However, there are several types of business models and various notations and methodologies available for use in modeling a business. There are also many different items that you may want to model, for example, the business processes, workflows, activities, ...

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