Modeling and documenting business processes, decisions, and policies

Blueworks Live provides easy-to-use tools for discovering and capturing business processes, decisions, and policies.

Creating process blueprints
A process blueprint is a high-level diagram or map of a business process which visually represents the sequence of tasks, decisions, and interactions that make up a process. Creating a process blueprint helps understand the process flow from start to finish: it describes details about the activities in the process, the people who perform or know about the activities, the milestones that activities are performed in, and other details. In IBM Blueworks Live, a process blueprint consists of a discovery map, a process diagram, and documentation.
Modeling decisions
With Blueworks Live, you can discover and document the decisions within business processes. Documenting a decision enables you to understand business processes more clearly and accurately, simplify business processes for greater efficiency, and manage your business processes in a more agile and transparent way.
Documenting policies
You can document corporate policies and governmental regulations that influence your company's processes and decisions. As a result, you can track compliance across your business. In addition, when a policy or regulation changes you can easily access which processes or decisions are impacted.
Building a business glossary
The glossary is a place to define and store all of the important terms used in the artifacts in your Blueworks Live account. Defining a set of preferred terms and associated descriptions can help achieve consistency and encourage best practises in documenting your business processes, policies and decisions.
Creating Snapshots
A snapshot is a feature to capture and save the current state of a process or a set of artifacts such as process blueprints, decisions, and policies at a specific point in time. Snapshots are useful for version control, and auditing the changes over time. Once a snapshot is created, it becomes a read-only version that cannot be modified, ensuring that you have a permanent record of the process at that moment.
Tagging artifacts
Tags are powerful tools for categorizing and organizing spaces, processes, decisions, policies, user groups, and other content within the platform. By effectively using tags, users can streamline searches, improve content organization, and facilitate collaboration. Tags can be invaluable for grouping and analyzing processes, especially in reporting or auditing. You can also use tags to streamline process reviews, audits, and performance evaluations.

Parent topic: Using Blueworks Live