Business Process cycle:

The goal of this section is providing an overall understanding of the concepts
and technologies that are relevant in business process management, using a
business process lifecycle. This lifecycle is also useful for scoping the contents
of this book.The phases are organized in a cyclical structure,
showing their logical dependencies. These dependencies do not imply a strict
temporal ordering in which the phases need to be executed. Many design
and development activities are conducted during each of these phases, and
incremental and evolutionary approaches involving concurrent activities in
multiple phases are not uncommon.
We have also looked at interacting business processes that realize process choreographies. These
examples focus on the activities of business processes and their relationships
and on the business partners involved. The next section will consider the
development of business processes and software platforms that realize them
by introducing the business process.