Talk:Business process

Business Process – A sequence of activities, performed by an organization of people, using equipment, energy, material and information as inputs, to create controlled outputs for commercial purposes.

AIAG Glossary: �Business – The organization of people, equipment, energy, procedures and material into the work activities needed to produce a specified end result or work output. A business process is a sequence of activities, with inputs, activities, outputs, and control.�

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A business process is a recipe for achieving a commercial result. Each business process has inputs, method and outputs. The inputs are a pre-requisite that must be in place before the method can be put into practice. When the method is applied to the inputs then certain outputs will be created.

A business process is a collection of related structural activities that produce a specific outcome for a particular customer. ��A business process can be part of a larger, encompassing process and can include other business processes that have to be included in its method.

The business process can be thought of as a cookbook for running a business; "Answer the phone", "place an order", "produce and invoice" might all be examples of a Business Process.

<%20P%20> Procedure: Specified way to carry out an activity or a process.  [8] Process: The combination of people, machine and equipment, raw materials, methods, and environment that produces a given product or service. [7] Process: Set of interrelated or interacting activities which transforms inputs into outputs.  [8]