Glossary

AS-IS

Also called: current state · as-is model

A model of the process as it operates today. It is captured only to the depth required to redesign, and must answer three questions: what prevents achieving the objective, what should be…

A model of the process as it operates today. It is captured only to the depth required to redesign, and must answer three questions: what prevents achieving the objective, what should be preserved, and what should be eliminated or transformed.

The instruction to map it only as deeply as needed is not methodological laziness: documenting the complete current state is the most common way to exhaust the budget before transforming anything.

Related terms

BPM

The discipline and software category for designing, executing, measuring and improving business processes as governed assets.

BPM lifecycle

The sequence of process identification, discovery, analysis, redesign, implementation and monitoring.

Process mining

Reconstructing how a process actually runs from the event logs its systems already produce, rather than from what people describe in workshops.

Process reengineering

The tradition holding that automating a fragmented structure accelerates a bad design rather than fixing it, and that redesign must start from the customer, the outcome and the complete flow…

TO-BE

The design of the future process. Here it is not an optimized AS-IS but the mechanism built to maximize the fulfilment of a verifiable objective, together with its data, rules, risks,…