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Chapter 2 : Organization System

Organization System description requires 4 concepts:

Organization Entity

Organization Entities define all resources used by the company: Organization Actors, Organization Units, Rights and Duties, location, building…

Organization Process

For each Business Process, may exist different scenarios of assignments of Activities to Actors, because for the same Business Process may exist different organizations. Each scenario is called an Organization Process.

Organization Function

To define with accuracy an Organization Process, Business Functions are not sufficient: we must add Organization Functions like “am I Authorized”, or “send a message to the manager”, or “ask someone to check” …

Activity

An Activity is a set of Functions inside an Organization Process which is schedulable, which means assigned to one Organization Actor (human or automate).

Activities can be:

  • totally manual (example: check a signature): manual Activity
  • totally automatic (example: produce Payroll statements): automatic Activity
  • human but helped by IT (example: any transaction done on a keyboard): transactional Activity