WO2015036987A1

WO2015036987A1 - Method and system for business processes framework engine

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Publication number: WO2015036987A1
Application number: PCT/IL2013/050762
Authority: WO
Inventors: Efron Razi
Original assignee: T.E. Commercialize Innovations Ltd.
Priority date: 2013-09-10
Filing date: 2013-09-10
Publication date: 2015-03-19

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and system for business processes framework engine and more particularly a method and a system that can create, monitor, analyze, optimize and manage all business processes in an organization. The system has four core elements: A. An Engine for modeling and executing process-based fractals N_C-K_F-N_C and/or business rules. B. Database of fractals (N_C-K_F-N_C)s which provides the "fuel" for the engine. C. Dashboard which enables the manager to analyze, test, and perform changes in the processes of the organization, and D. External interfaces – for coding business rules and activities of any organization into N_C-K_F-N_C fractals and store them in the data base.

Description

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BUSINESS PROCESSES FRAMEWORK ENGINE

Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to a method and system for business processes framework engine and more particularly a method for managing, simulating and building a framework of business processes and a system for executing such a method.

Background

The business process management theory is a new enterprise management method that has been developed in the recent years. It is a holistic management approach focused on aligning all aspects of an organization processes from the point of view of the client. However the theory itself is not perfect yet. It can't support an organization business process that is continuously and dynamically improving. The new business management process is a method of optimization of the process itself, which enables organizations to be more efficient, more effective and more capable of making changes, than a functionally focused, traditional hierarchical management approach. Empirical studies suggest that the new business management process approach helps organizations to gain higher customer satisfaction, higher product quality, higher delivery speed and better time to market speed.

A business process is defined as a series or a network of added value activities, performed by the relevant entities with tools or collaborators, to purposefully achieve the common business goal. According to IL 215575 (Filed on 6/ 10/2011), any process can be described as NC-KF-N_c fractal, where: 'Nc' is a network element such as a person or hardware. 'Nc' is unique by its properties (marked as 'C'). 'K_F' is the unique connection between two Nc elements. The connection is distinguished by its properties (marked as 'F'). These core elements structure N_c-K_F-Nc creates a network of processes describing reality thus adding more reality to the description. The understanding and managing of these processes are critical to any organization and very important for decision making based on that network data and information. They are the blood stream of the organization enabling brain activities. The business process management approach, considers the NC-KF-NC processes to be a strategic asset of an organization. This process must be understood, managed, and improved to deliver value added products and services to clients.

This approach has aspects which are similar to the TQM- Total Quality Management, or Kaizen Management, which calls for continuous improvement process methodologies or approaches. The business process management goes one step further, and states that it enables to achieve the TQM/Keizen, by ensuring the viability of the managerial approach in times of stress and change. In fact business process management tools can be integrated into an organizational change capability that includes both: the human factor (method) and the technological factor (system) .

Roughly speaking, the idea of business process is as traditional as concepts such as tasks, departments, production, outputs etc. However the current management and improvement approach, with formal definitions and technical modeling, has been around since the early 1990s. The IT community uses the term 'business process' as synonymous with management of middleware processes or integrating application software tasks. The business process management was initially focused on the automation of business processes with the use of information technology. It has since been extended to integrate human-driven processes in which human interaction takes place, combined or in parallel with the use of technology for every basic fractal NC-KF-NC. For example, in a workflow system, when a certain (Nc) step in the business process requires human intuition or judgment to be performed (KF), this step is assigned to the appropriate member within the organization (the second Nc). More advanced forms of the NC-KF-NC process connections, which require interaction between workers and or systems in performing a workgroup task are available. In such cases, several persons and systems interact in structured, ad-hoc, and sometimes completely dynamic ways, to complete one or several (NC-KF-NC) transactions. Business process management can be used to understand organizations through expanded views that would not be available otherwise, such as the possibility to organize and present relationships between processes.

Business Process management enables organizations to abstract business processes from a map of basic fractals. The new suggested system goes beyond automating business processes or solving business problems. The new method and system enables business to analyze and to test responses from the changing markets.

A business process management system ought to have four core elements:

• The Engine - a method and a system for modeling and executing process-based fractals NC-KF-NC and the business rules.

• Storage - a data base of fractals (NC-KF-NC)S, which provides the storing and the securing of the data base for the engine (fuel for the engine).

• The "brain" - the analytical and the management part of the system. It enables the manager to analyze, to test, and to make changes in the processes of the organization (the wheels).

• External interface - for coding the business rules of an organizations into NC-KF-NC fractals and store them in the data base (transmission).

More over a business process management system ought to handle four core types of processes:

• Regular one time processes that start with one Nc element and work on the KF connection and end in Nc element (can be the same as the starting element).

• Regular, routine n times processes that start with one Nc element and work on the KF connection and end in Nc element (can be the same as the starting element).

• Conditioned process (either one time or routine n times) that starts only when condition ie-occurs.

• Timed process (either one time or routine n times) that starts on scheduled time line.

The method described above, can be applied only through a software system that will enable to convert and monitor the business rules into a computer system. The system will be an enterprise solution primarily intended to provide a real-time summary of business processes for managers. The system's objectives are to provide real time information about the status and the results of various operations, processes, and transactions. The new system enables managers to make better informed business decisions, to quickly address problems and challenges, and to reposition the organization's elements (Nc) and the connections (KF), in order to take full advantage of emerging opportunities.

The current existing systems work only on the workflow and/ or on the framework. This typically requires organizational structure analysis and basic workflows across multiple organizations' positions. (Yamamoto, R et al. "Development of a Business Process Modeling Methodology and a Tool for Sharing Business Processes", Proceedings of the 12th Asia- Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC'05) 0-7695-2465-6/05 © 2005 IEEE).

One of the most needed features of a business process management system is the presentation of the information on a unified dashboard that will contain important NC-KF-NC fractals, to provide assurance and visibility of all entities and their activities and performance. This information is not available in the existing current technical and business operations (US 5,535,322; US 5,826,239; US 7,428,486; US 7,467, 145; US 7,565,304; US 7,644,006; US 7,904,894; EP 202 32 79 and EP 210 12 92).

It is an object of the present invention to provide a method that can use a computer system for monitoring, analyzing and displaying current and future data on an on-going event.

It is another object of the current invention to enable processing of realtime or near real-time NC-KF-NC fractals and business rules and processes, thus enabling real macro management.

Yet it is another object of the present invention to enable visualization of bottom up and top down simultaneously of the NC-KF-NC fractals and their interactions, in a real -time, or in near real-time.

Yet it is another object of the present invention to provide a uniformed engine for NC-KF-NC fractals, processes and business activities.

Yet it is another object of the present invention to enable determine risks and test decision making, in a real -time, or in near real-time so that management can lower risk factor in processes. Summary of the I nvention

A method and a system that can create, monitor, analyze, optimize and manage all business processes in an organization. The system has four core elements:

A. An Engine for modeling and executing process-based fractals NC-KF- Nc and/ or business rules.

B. Database of fractals (NC-KF-NC)S which provides the "fuel" for the engine.

C. Dashboard which enables the manager to analyze, test, and perform changes in the processes of the organization, and

D. External interfaces - for coding business rules and activities of any organization into NC-KF-NC fractals and store them in the data base.

D etailed D escription of the Inve ntion

The present invention provides a method and a system that can handle:

A. Regular one time processes (301) that start with one Nc element and work on the KF connection and end in Nc element (can be the same as the starting element).

B. Regular, routine n times processes (302) that start with one Nc element and work on the KF connection and end in Nc element (can be the same as the starting element).

C. Conditioned process (303) (either one time or routine n times processes) that starts only when condition is occurs (304).

D. Timed process (306) (either one time or routine n times processes) that starts on scheduled time line.

For each process the system can create, monitor, analyze and manage top bottom and bottom up simultaneously. The system has four core elements:

A. An Engine for modeling and executing process-based fractals NC-KF- Nc and the business rules (201).

B. Database of fractals (NC-KF-NC)S which provides the "fuel" for the engine (202).

C. Access devices, including a dashboard (209) which enables the manager to analyze, test, and perform changes in the processes of the organization, and a long range output device (208) that enable the same from a distance, and

D. External interfaces - for coding business rules and activities of any organization into NC-KF-NC fractals and store them in the data base (203).

Brie f D escription of the Drawing

Fig 1 - Schematic view of the invented method and system.

Fig 2 - Schematic view of the invented method in on organization.

Fig 3 - Schematic block diagram of the invented method.

Fig 4 - Schematic view of the processes archetypes that the invented method and system can handle.

D etailed D escription of the Drawing

Fig 1 - Shows a schematic view of the invented method and system. The invention can get input from a system described in IL 215575 in the form of NC-KF-NC fractals ( 101) or from another system ( 102). The basic gateway ( 103) will have external interface for information that not in the NC-KF-NC fractals shape and form, and then coder that will create the business rules for the data base (202).

Fig 2 - Shows a schematic view of the invented method and system in one organization. Again the invention can get input from a system described in IL 2 15575 in the form of NC-KF-NC fractals ( 101) or from another system ( 102). If the input is form NC-KF-NC fractals ( 101) shape then the coder is (205). If it is from external interface ( 102) than the coder has to code the information into a NC-KF-NC fractals shape and form, and then create the business rules (206). After that process the business rules are stored in the data base (202) and manipulate in the engine (201). The output is then served to Nc entity such as marketing ( 104).

Fig 3 - Shows block diagram of the schematic view shown in Fig 2. Again the invention can get input from a system described in IL 215575 in the form of NC-KF-NC fractals ( 101) or from another system ( 102). If the input is form NC-KF-NC fractals ( 101) shape then the coder is (203). If it is from external interface ( 102) than the coder has to code the information into a NC-KF-NC fractals shape and form, and then create the business rules (206). After that process the business rules are stored in the data base (202) and manipulate in the engine (201). The output is then served to Nc entity such as marketing ( 104).

- Schematic view of the processes archetypes that the invented method and system can handle:

1. Regular one time processes (301) that start with one Nc element and work on the KF connection and end in Nc element (can be the same as the starting element).

. Regular, routine n times processes (302) that start with one Nc element and work on the KF connection and end in Nc element (can be the same as the starting element).

. Conditioned process (303) (either one time or routine) that starts only when condition is occurs (304).

. Timed process (306) (either one time or routine) that starts on scheduled time line.

Claims

1. A method and a system that can create, monitor, analyze, optimize and manage all types and sorts of processes in an organization, the system will have at least four elements:

a. an engine for modeling and executing process-based fractals in the NC-KF-NC formula and capable of manipulating a given set of environment or business rules;

b. a database of the said fractals (NC-KF-NC) and the set of environment or business rules and the rules of how they are connected;

c. an output device which will enable managers to analyzed, test, and optimize processes in the organization, and

d. external interfaces - for coding environment or business rules and activities of any organization into NC-KF-NC fractals and store them in the data base.

2. The system described in claim 1 that enables handling:

a. regular one time processes that start with one Nc element and work on the KF connection and end in Nc element (can be the same as the starting element) or

b. regular, routine n times processes that start with one Nc element and work on the KF connection and end in Nc element (can be the same as the starting element) or

c. conditioned process (either one time or routine n times processes) that starts only when condition is occurs or d. timed process (either one time or routine n times processes) that starts on scheduled time line.

3. The system described in claim 1 that enables getting input in the fractals (NC-KF-NC) shape and form, as described in IL 2 15575.

4. The system described in claim 1 that enables getting input not in the fractals (NC-KF-NC) shape and form, as described in IL 2 15575, and code the input into fractals (NC-KF-NC) shape and form.