From: The difference between workflow and business process management
Business process management isn’t a very good name for the discipline, for example because it isn’t only useful for businesses, but it’s the best name we have. Apart from ‘workflow management’, unless you think that’s worse, of course.
I ran into this because I noticed that Workflow Patterns seemed to avoid “BPM” on the cover (at least) - but that may be related to it aligning more closely to with YAWL than BPMN.
I’d say that it’s a old problem that always needed solving (and has been solved in a variety of ways) but newer attention has more to do with how technologies (and some of the resulting methodologies) are being brought to bear on it (which often seem to center around the idea of obviating the need for getting analysts/developers/programmers (or acquiring the associated mindset) involved).
