The as-is business process model represents the operational view of the organizations. Its creation effort is associated with several business activities such as (1) requirements gathering to build information systems, (2) implementing quality management systems, (3) re-engineering activities and the improvement of business processes. However, even recognizing its importance in supporting these business activities, the business process model is normally discarded after being used because it is not updated and does not follow the dynamics of organizational change. This paper describes the development of a tool that aims to implement the as-is business process model dynamic update process. The tool recognizes all organizational actors as key agents to reduce the gap between the executed processes and its representation. The tool was tested in a governmental organization where the organizational actors have detected several misalignments between the modeled activities and the real ongoing activities, which after been discussed were turned into corrections to the distributed model.
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