Bringing a new business process to life, modifying or optimizing an existing business process, and continually innovating a business process all involve a similar set of phases and activities. The business process lifecycle visually depicts this ongoing circle of these activities.
The lifecycle includes the following phases:
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- Analyzing the current environment and any current processes that may be in place
- Identifying needs and defining requirements
- Business Process Cycle: Design Phase
- Evaluating potential solutions to meet the identified needs
- Designing the business process
- Modeling the business process
- Business Process Cycle Implement Phase
- Project preparation
- Blueprinting
- Realization
- Final preparation
- Go live and support
- Run and Monitor phase
- Executing or deploying the business process
- Monitoring the business process
Note that a separate optimize phase is unnecessary, since process optimization takes place throughout all of the phases.