CG

 I have a lot of experience with the ARIS BPM platforms, building business architects and business models for many years. I found the ARIS express today and was amazed at the simplicity of the product. I was so amazed that I have asked other peers to download it and begin using it immediately. I have already showed them how to build organization charts easily and basic models with ARIS Express, which has lit a fire for more process models.

ARIS is the tool of choice for our company's headquarters in Spain. It is being rolled out to the US and other markets - slowly, which brings up my topic for discussion:

The Company is in the process of building a Business Process Architecture, but it is being developed in Spain and we have no control over any content on the first five levels. We are struggling with a combination 'top down' / 'bottom up' approach, and cannot seem to find a solution for connecting corporate processes with the more detailed lower level location process models. I have been through this before at another company and it took years to come to a "semi-permanent" solution - and by that time they were sold to another company.

I would like to see what solutions you might have for this dual modeling approach and any comments or suggestions  as to how to handle the building the architecture so that Level 5 is close enough to the location models that links are possible.

Thank you for your input,

Chris

by Thomas David
Posted on Fri, 09/11/2009 - 14:31

Hi Chris,

there are different scenarios for solving this:

From a modeler perspective the perfect world would be the greenfield approach where you start top-down and at a certain level you split into different local sub processes. This would mean a common agreement on the top level of the Process Architecture. Even if this sounds academic I´ve seen that in a 450.000 people company working but it takes time and needs management support for the alignment process. Very important is to have procedures and tools for a reconcilation of the decentral content into the central Process Architecture for future releases and to benefit from best practices all over the place. Believe me: It´s not easy but it works.  :-)

Another idea could be to build a transformation level between the central model/content and your local one. You can try to map different things from both side within this level similiar like you would use a BPMN layer as transformation from the business perspective to technical and implementation perspective. You also could try the reusage of the central objects within your local model.

In any case it might be never possible to bring two process architectures together which are not build on the same structure. So therefore in the long run the first scenario is the recommended one.

 

 

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