Improvement View: Extension of Seven Views Approach

Business process improvement is an important phase that must be introduced as soon as the phase of theoretical modeling of a new process. Indeed, it is based on the main aspects of the process such requirements, artefacts, and stakeholders. In this paper, we use the MDE approach to create our meta-model of process extended to improvement cycles. We generate this meta-model from the fusion of several meta-models: Process Structure View and concept View proposed in the framework of Seven Views approach, and the Meta model of improvement cycles which is in this case based on the PDCA approach. The proposed Meta model will facilitate the task in terms of the collection and sharing data for process improvement. We qualify here the process lifecycle as intelligent cycle in the measure where several repositories containing information collected as soon as the theoretical modeling will be accessible and updated during each phase of the cycle, avoiding the need to repeat the same tasks. The objective of this paper is to propose an extension of Seven Views approach, by adding an eighth view which focuses on process improvement. The meta-model proposed is generic and will be valid for any type of information system.