Workflow is Just a Pi Process
In this article, which has received a lot of critical attention recently, Howard Smith and Peter Fingar discuss workflow systems and their limitations and argue that new business process management systems must be based on the broader framework of Pi Calculus.
Howard Smith
Howard Smith is the author of Business Process Management: The Third Wave. Now retired from his role as CTO at Computer Sciences Corporation (DXC), he created Southbeach Notation with his colleague Mark Burnett. The notation was later implemented by micro ISV Southbeach Solutions, a UK company. He is currently exploring the potential of LLMs for problem-solving and innovation and is the author of the ‘In Conversation with GPT’ series of (10) books, available via Amazon worldwide.
Howard can be reached at smithhn@gmail.com, on Twitter @sbnotation or via LinkedIn
Latest posts by Howard Smith (see all)
- Southbeach Modeller + AI = Superpowers! – April 9, 2024
- Southbeach Notation: Its Semantics and Case Study – February 3, 2020
- Software Robots for Process Automation: Fudge or a Strategic Solution? – June 1, 2015
- Thinking Processes, Capabilities and Services What’s in a Word? – October 6, 2014
- The Elements of Southbeach Notation 0.9 – June 7, 2011
