The fundamental premise of our methodology states that, "Every business is really just a collection of business processes and sub-process that work together to deliver customer value."

In The Well Formed Business Process methodology, all business processes deliver value to a requesting entity. And that value is created through a series of value added process steps that apply or employ the intellectual and physical assets of the company.

According to our methodology, a Requestor is the entity to which value is being delivered. A Requestor may be external customer, a department within an enterprise, or even another Business Process.

But in any case, all business processes have a Requestor and the goal of every business process is to deliver value to that Requestor.

The "work" of a business process is generally tracked by a Form of some sort (Sales Order, Purchase Order, Trouble Ticket, etc.). Forms track an instance of work as it progresses through the steps of a Business Process.

The steps of a business process are what Visual World calls Value Added Steps. Visual World organizes the "work" of a business process into these Value Added Steps, which may be performed by a person or a piece of automation. Forms flow through the Value Added Steps of the business processes based on your business rules.

These process steps bring the work to the person responsible the value-add and provide all the information required to perform the activity. A Value Added Step is really a combination of a business rule to "attract" the work, the object of the work (a Form), a description of what to do, and in most cases the application or assignment of company assets.

Using these fundamental concepts coupled with our supporting breakthrough technology platform, Visual World is able to provide extremely effective solutions at a fraction of the cost and time normally associated with projects of this magnitude.