Process Management Lifecycle (PML)

Bringing a new business process to life, modifying or optimizing an existing business process, and continually innovating a business process all involve a similar set of phases and activities. The business process lifecycle visually depicts this ongoing circle of these activities.

 The lifecycle includes the following phases:

1. Analyze phase
   • Analyzing the current environment and any current processes that may be in place
   • Identifying needs and defining requirements
2. Design phase
   • Evaluating potential solutions to meet the identified needs
   • Designing the business process
   • Modeling the business process
3. Implement phase
   • Project preparation
   • Blueprinting
   • Realization
   • Final preparation
   • Go live and support
4. Run and Monitor phase
   • Executing or deploying the business process
   • Monitoring the business process

Note that a separate optimize phase is unnecessary, since process optimization takes place throughout all of the phases.