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2 unusual facts about Business Process Mapping


Business process mapping

Another 1944 graduate, Ben S. Graham, Director of Formcraft Engineering at Standard Register Industrial, adapted the flow process chart to information processing with his development of the multi-flow process chart to display multiple documents and their relationships.

The first structured method for documenting process flow, the flow process chart, was introduced by Frank Gilbreth to members of ASME in 1921 as the presentation “Process Charts—First Steps in Finding the One Best Way”.


Automated business process

Most address one specific set of functionality; for instance, some allow the processes to be mapped (see Business Process Mapping) and documented (such as Visio); others allow for simulations to take place (such as ARIS).


see also

Ben Graham

Benjamin S. Graham (1900–1960), the "father of Paperwork Simplification" creator of the first business process mapping (flowcharting) methodology