Powerful 5w2h/IPO Method for Business Pocesses

This book provides a standardized syntax to describe process nodes of any business process. The descriptions are multiple directional, detailed and standardized. The syntax for the process nodes description is called 5W2H/IPO, which stands for "Who," "With What," "When," "Where," "Why," "How to Do," "How to Record and Control," "Input," "Do What," and "Output." It has a total of ten elements. One syntax 5W2H/IPO description corresponds to one single node of a business process.

Once standardized, all nodes of a business process could be contained in one single database table. Each element of the 5W2H/IPO is a header in the database table. Each row of the database table represents an entry of a business process node. All nodes of a process could be recorded in the table in sequence. Furthermore, all the other business processes that an organization has could be recorded into the same database table. Due to the unlimited nature of the rows and the columns of the electronic database table, theoretically, one single tabulated table could hold entire business processes of an organization. This is indeed a miracle