How to navigate Cross-Industry Process Model

In one line: start on Home and click a name to open its diagram, then go down one level at a time with the arrows on the shapes. Click a shape to read about it. Look at the thumbnails before you open a diagram.

The model shows detail gradually, one level at a time, so you are never shown everything at once.

Start on Home

Home is the top of the map: one page of names. There are no boxes, icons or small arrows on it. The name itself is the link.

• Coloured names are the main areas (domains) of the model, one colour each. Click one to open the diagram of the capabilities inside that area.
• Plain names under an area are its capabilities. Click one to open its context diagram: the capability and the capabilities it exchanges information with.
• Lines with arrowheads between areas, where Home has them, show which area hands work to which. They are for reading only.
• A click on Home opens a diagram, not a description. Descriptions open from the diagrams (see below). A name in light grey, if you see one, is not modelled yet and cannot be opened.

Go down and up with the arrows

Below Home, shapes on a diagram carry small arrows:

• Down arrow: opens what is inside that object, one level of detail lower. On an area it opens its capabilities; on a capability, its context diagram; on the capability at the centre of a context diagram, its processes (where the model has them).
• Up arrow: goes one level up, to the diagram where this object sits in its wider context.

The way down is area → capability → process → process flow.

Go sideways along the flow of information

At process level, just before you open a process flow, the context diagram shows which processes this one exchanges information with.

Use it as a stepping stone: follow an exchange to the next process in line. You can trace a whole chain of work this way.

Read about anything you click

• Objects: on any diagram below Home, click a shape, and its description opens in the panel at the bottom left.
• Relationships have descriptions too. Open the Relationships tab under the diagram and click a relationship's name. Its description and attributes open in the same bottom-left panel.
• Process flows: click a step to read what happens in it.

See before you click: the Lightbox

Lightbox (top menu) shows every diagram as a thumbnail. You recognise a diagram by its shape before you open it, so you are much more likely to open the right one first. Filter by diagram type to narrow the gallery.

Everything on one page: the Elements Map

A heatmap-style diagram, the Elements Map, shows all the relevant business objects on one page. Use it as an overview, and as another way in: click any object to go to it.

More

• Analytics (top menu): how strongly the areas and capabilities connect to each other.
• Model tree and search (left panel): find any element or diagram by name.
• About (top menu): read it first. It explains what the model is, what it is meant for, its sources and licence, and what comes next.

Tell us what you think

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