CIPM: Cross-Industry Process Model
This site is an experiment and a demo. Everything on it, processes included, is open to view. What happens next depends on your feedback; a subscription for a future version is possible.
What it is. A cross-industry map of what organisations do: capabilities, processes and 208 process flows down to step level. It is an experiment in reference content that can change much faster than frameworks curated by hand over twenty years. It does not compete with APQC; it builds on APQC's open framework and points back to it. It is built with Archi®, the open-source ArchiMate® tool. Every diagram on this site was generated from the model, not drawn by hand. The process flows are drawn in our own notation, a carefully crafted blend of BPMN, UPN and EPC, made to be easy to generate and easy to read.
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Sources and rights. Full notices: Licence and sources.
- Structure and process names: APQC Process Classification Framework®. APQC's notice, as the licence requires in every derivative work:
©2022 APQC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. This Process Classification Framework® ("PCF") is the copyrighted intellectual property of APQC. APQC encourages the wide distribution, discussion, and use of the PCF for classifying and defining organizational processes. Accordingly, APQC hereby grants you a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, copy, publish, modify, and create derivative works of the PCF, provided that all copies of the PCF and any derivative works contain a copy of this notice.
- Process flows: based on the open BPMN collection by Andrii Kopp, MIT licence, "Copyright (c) 2021 Andrii Kopp" (full notice). Their presentation and interpretation in ArchiMate® are ours.
- Everything else (diagrams, layout, flows between capabilities, texts): © 2026 Bora Perzic, Acrostine. Free to browse, link and cite with credit; republishing or commercial reuse needs written permission. Compiled and visualised by Bora Perzic with an AI agents team. Archi® is a registered trademark of Phillip Beauvoir; ArchiMate® is a registered trademark of The Open Group. Contact: bora.perzic@acrostine.com.
- Not an APQC product, and not endorsed by APQC.
Technical notes
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