KNOWLEDGE BASED BUSINESS PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF SAME

摘要

The present invention provides a business process system for management of a business, the system including a plurality of business processes for management of specific parameters of the business; a plurality of careabouts, each careabout being a measurable parameter of the business of importance to the business and being associated with one or more roles of the business; a plurality of roles, each role being a person or entity within the business who is the owner of one or more processes, and responsible for the execution of owned processes; and a plurality of scripts being methods of describing the business processes. Each of the business processes may be implemented by the role owning the process by executing the script associated with the process in response to an event to cause the state of a careabout to be adjusted, the adjusted state of the careabout being reported to each role with whom the careabout is associated. The present invention, also provides a business processing system to enable a business to rapidly and easily access information of importance to the business. The system includes a plurality of business processes for management of specific parameters of the business; a plurality of careabouts, each careabout being a measurable parameter of the business of importance to the businessand being associated with one or more roles of the business; a plurality of roles, each role being a person or entity within the business who is the owner of one or more processes, and responsible for the execution of owned processes; a plurality of scripts being methods of describing the business processes; a database containing indications of the roles and careabouts associated with the roles; and a knowledge router which routes messages between the business process and the roles. Each of the business processes may be implemented by the role owning the process by executing the script associated with the process in response to an event to cause the state of a careabout to be adjusted. The knowledge router receives an indication of the altered careabout from the business process and after comparing the altered careabout with the database, notifies each role who has the careabout associated with it of the change in the state of the careabout by a message sent by the knowledge router.