2012-07-07

Coordination techniques in BPM, Social, ACM, etc.

Considering the definition of a process as “explicitly-defined coordination of services to create a particular result” this post shows how some explicit coordination techniques (rows) are employed by different “methodologies”  (columns) for managing the business by processes.



Classic WF
Classic BPM
ACM
Social NNN
EPN
template-based
++
++
--
--
-+
event-based
-+
+-
+-
-+
++
rule-based
++
++
+-
-+
+-
role-based
++
++
+-
-+
-+
information-based
-+
-+
+-
+-
-+
intelligence-based
-+
-+
-+
+-
--
community-based
--
--
-+
++
--
goal-based
--
--
+-
-+
--
instance-based
--
-+
--
--
--
interprocess (used instance-based)
--
--
--
--
--
managerial (tacit-knowledge-based)
--
-+
--
--
--
resource-based (follow the resource life-cycle)
--
-+
+-
--
--
inter-organisation
--
-+
--
--
--
state-based ??
??
??
??
??
??

A combination of some of them may provide "predictive analytics".

Ideally   like in the chess game – use must the right combination of coordination techniques in a particular case at the particular moment. But, not all process-centric tools offers all coordination techniques. 

Also a related post about BPM and ACM - http://improving-bpm-systems.blogspot.com/2010/12/illustrations-for-bpm-acm-case.html.

Thanks,
AS

1 comment:

Julia Wagner said...

by the number of "pluses" BPM is winning :)