Tag Archives: business processes

Decision Modeling

Posted on May 31, 2022 by R.P. Churchill

Many business processes require decisions to be made. Decision modeling is about the making and automating of repeatable decisions. Some decisions require unique human judgment. They may arise from unusual or entrepreneurial situations and involve factors, needs, and emotions that … Continue reading →

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Using Data In My Framework and In Simulations

Posted on April 3, 2019 by R.P. Churchill

I recently wrote about how data is collected and used in the different phases of my business analysis framework. After giving the most recent version of my presentation on the subject I was asked for clarification about how the data … Continue reading →

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What Drives The Scale Of A Business Or Simulation System?

Posted on January 21, 2016 by R.P. Churchill

The scale of a business or simulation (continuous or discrete-event) system can be driven by a number of factors. Scale can be measured in terms of CPU cycles, communication bandwidth, disk storage, dynamic memory usage, power consumption, and perhaps other … Continue reading →

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Discrete-Event Simulation vs. Business Logic

Posted on January 20, 2016 by R.P. Churchill

I wanted to continue yesterday’s discussion by describing some differences between discrete-event simulations and systems that might be implemented to carry out business logic. The first diagram below shows a model of privately owned vehicles and commercial vehicles passing through … Continue reading →

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Handling Complex Wait..Until Conditions

Posted on January 19, 2016 by R.P. Churchill

Last Wednesday I discussed some of the internal workings of discrete-event simulations. I should also mention that all of these discussions are based on a program running in a single thread that is trying to coordinate many activities. There are … Continue reading →

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Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN 2.0)

Posted on January 18, 2016 by R.P. Churchill

Today I was able to complete a thorough power-read of the book Real Life BPMN by Jakob Freund and Bernd Rücker. I’ve performed discovery on, analyzed, characterized, automated, modeled, simulated, documented, controlled, and improved various kinds of customer processes more … Continue reading →

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