International Business Machines Corporation

Dominik Etzweiler

Bonnie Kathryn Ray

Jochen M Kuester

Jana Koehler

Lea A Deleris

Eric W Cope

A method and computer program product for extending a business process model. The method includes specifying first elements representing performance measures and objectives of a business process which may be compromised by risk events; specifying second elements representing contextual information describing circumstances which may be relevant to a failure mode of the process, said contextual information comprising a type and state of: resources to support the process, of jobs and artifacts that undergo the process; and, a type and state of environmental factors; specifying third elements representing errors which may occur during process execution; specifying fourth elements representing causal relationships among risk events related to the resources, activities, and said environmental factors that may influence process execution; and providing a set of metamodel extensions to a standard process modeling language that incorporate said specified first second third and fourth elements directly in the business process model.

Method for creating and expressing risk-extended business process models

A method and computer program product for integrating risk management concepts into a standard business process metamodel by defining a set of metamodel extensions to standard process modeling languages that incorporate risk information directly in the process model. The method includes collecting risk-relevant information for addition to a business process model, and enabling visualizing of a risk-extended business process model. using a notation to express notions as failure modes of resources, root cause events, and sources of execution failure and low job output quality directly in the context of process models. Additionally, the method enables the computation of risk-related impacts on the distribution of process performance measures using a Bayesian network model or a discrete-event simulation model.

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