BCS releases second edition of business processes book
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A Pragmatic Guide to Business Process Modelling, which has been expanded to include five new chapters, shows how accurate modelling can help management consultants, business analysts and IT managers tasked with ironing out some of the complexities that surround this topic. The highly accessible publication addresses these issues by showing the benefits of using Unified Modelling Language (UML) and alternative notations.
Its award-winning author Jon Holt, a BCS Fellow and owner of a successful systems engineering consultancy, says "Business modelling is arguably one of the most important aspect of any organisation in terms of the management and control of organisational activities.
"This book uses diagrams to visualise and understand processes at many different levels. It creates an entire approach to pragmatic business process modelling that is based on best practice modelling and uses an internationally recognised standard notation for its realisation."
The book also covers:
> Measuring and mapping your business using UML (an ISO standard)
> Analysis, specification, mapping, measurement and documentation
> Presentation of process information
> Business tools
> New material on teaching process modelling
> Enterprise Architecture
> Alternative notations are also included.
Paul McNeillis, Head of Professional Services, BSI, says: "Jon Holt's clear and engaging style makes a potentially difficult subject highly accessible and the reader's progress is helped along by the mixture of good examples, humour and flair for explanation that we have come to expect from this author."
About the book: Author: Jon Holt, Publication Date: July 2009, ISBN: 978-1-906124-12-0 Standard Price: £29.95, BCS Members Price: £25.00
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