| A business is a conglomeration of many smaller | | | | operate on both closed and open systems. |
| operating systems. For a business to operate | | | | An open operating system is one in which the daily |
| successfully, each of the smaller operating systems | | | | activities of the business are constantly exposed to |
| must be functioning correctly. If even just one of the | | | | the outside environment. Various types of information |
| smaller systems is not performing well, the entire | | | | will be exchanged with different areas of the |
| business will feel the effect. One way to ensure that | | | | environment, which means that the business process |
| each aspect of the business is operating well is to use | | | | management software must be able to quickly adapt |
| business process management software. | | | | to changes in the environment to ensure that the |
| Business Process Management software works in | | | | business continues to operate efficiently. |
| many of the same ways that a human manager | | | | A closed system is just the opposite of an open |
| would. For example, for a manager to be effective in | | | | system. With a closed system, all of the daily |
| their jobs, they must know how to perform all of their | | | | operations that are performed are not affected by the |
| duties as well as know how their job fits into the | | | | outside environment. Instead, all of the parts of the |
| overall goals of the business. Using Business Process | | | | business will continue to operate without regards to |
| Management software will make this process much | | | | any outside interference. |
| easier; however, the software must be able to | | | | |