Glossary

A Kaizen is a Japanese term that refers to a long-term approach that systematically seeks to achieve small incremental changes in processes in order to improve efficiency and quality.

Kanban, from a Japanese word for visible card or record, was developed by Taiichi Ohno at Toyota and refers to the use of visual management tools.

A Key Performance Indicator (KPI) is a type of measurement used to evaluate elements of an organizations performance.

A Lane is a a partition that is used to organize and categorize activities in a swim-lane type process diagram.

Lean is a business process improvement methodology with its core idea is to maximize customer value while minimizing waste.

In the context of Enterprise Architecture (and its various domains), Logical refers to the removal of implementation-independent concepts to create a logical view of an architecture.

A Merge in a process is a point where two or more alternative process flow paths are combined into one process flow path.

A Message, as specified and used within BPMN 2.0, is an Object that depicts the contents of a communication between two Participants.

A Message Flow is a connecting object that shows the flow of messages between two Participants.

Metadata refers to the data that is used to describe data and the characteristics of an entity.

A Metamodel consists of the frameworks, rules and constraints defined to underpin the creation of a model. In very simple terms, it is the model that underpins a model.

A Method is a defined and repeatable series of steps capable of achieving a specific purpose, solving a specific problem or acquire knowledge.