Hi Steve > Yes, > Perform credit check is a precondition (not even a process)
That, I agree, is the right way to look at it. (Although I have, as posted earlier, a rather esoteric semantic quibble about the use of the term "precondition" in this context). The important point, though, is that these kind of relationships should be the way that businesses capture their "rules of engagement"; and that they should be used in a dynamic way to build services and collaborations in the context of use, rather then being bolted into the rigid patterns that conventional process definitions represent. In this way, a business can achieve the maximum of flexibility without having to anticipate and define in advance all the different patterns of usage to which their capabilities and services might be put. To this extent, I think that the current obsession with "process" is misguided and probably damaging. The question is, though, what modelling paradigm should be used to represent these relationships, and what kind of infrastructure is required to allow them to used in the kind of dynamic way that I allude to above? I think that this is an important question, and that there are some potential answers to it. I would like to know what others on this list think. Rgds Ashley
