Changing Conceptions of Business Process

Traditional View Business Process as Production Line	Network View Business Process as Service Network
Linear – designed as a series of steps Chronological – steps executed in time-sequence Cumulative – adding value at each step Synchronous – each step dependent and waiting upon the previous steps Transforming raw materials and components into finished product	Non-Linear – designed as a set of services Logical – services put together in logical combinations Modulative – services modulating one another Asynchronous – services executed independently Transmuting input services into output services

Originally published in the CBDI Journal, January 2004.