A Common Process Ontology for Process-Centred Organisations

The world of business and organised work is changing. This change is driven by a shift of organisational focus away from individual fragmented tasks toward an examination of the holistic processes. New tools are being developed to assist individuals in building, evaluating, and managing these processes. The application of these tools though must be holistic as well. Organisational knowledge management should be structured in a way that encourages exchange of process knowledge. In order to e ectively share information, we believe there must be an explicit account of what knowledge will be exchanged, a shared understanding. We approach this by providing an extensible ontology which presents process related concepts and terminology which are common to a range of applications and industries.

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