
The business process management cycle starts with analysis and design – as do all creative projects.

And it also creates a bridge between the process and systems used to implement it – assuming technology is a factor, as it nearly always is. In essence it provides a language for people to design, analyse, build, modify and discuss business processes. There is nothing particularly complex about BPM, despite the unnecessarily elaborate terminology.

Free Open Source BPM Platforms 2015 People have always created and modified business processes, but until business process management (BPM) tools became available it was often an informal and fairly ad-hoc procedure.
