| It rather depends on what
you have described in your procedures. If your procedures follow the
pattern above left and you were to represent sentences describing
activities as a a flow chart you have simply replaced text with a
diagram and it is a procedure in graphic form. If you subsequently
renamed these documents as processes you would be guilty of a
misjudgement.
Let us say the title of your document was Contract
Review Procedure and you replace the activities section with a flow
chart and rename it Contract Review Process you will have
achieved nothing except perhaps illustrate the sequence of activities.
You may not have illustrated the interaction of activities unless you
add links with other processes and activities. However, whatever the
title you give it, it remains a procedure.
The approach has to be quite different. When writing
a process description to set out with an objective and measures and
describe how that objective will be achieved taking account of the
constraints, resources and risks. (see
Process Descriptions) |
