In 1776 “Division of Labour”– Adam Smith argued that breaking up the production process and creating peculiar tasks would simply and sped up the process. When factories became a standard, many employees making one item at a time proved time consuming and inefficient.
In ancient times, production in cottage industry happened by one person making one item from the beginning to the end. So lets take a quick run through a summarized history of it. It categorizes all the processes of an organization in to five levels so that it is easier to streamline the outcome. These tools evolve with the change of time and therefore it is advised to keep an open mind on how BPM can be used.įollowing hierarchy is mainly used in process modeling for large enterprises.