Go to the top of the page. Arrange the processes in a typical scenario that illustrates what usually happens. This may be the steps of how a patient comes and moves through the major steps in the hospital, or it can be the production of a car. Other processes support that core process. Both are important.
Supportive processes find their way into many steps of the core process.
Arrange the steps in the core process in such a way that it is clear that the supportive processes help the core process. If displaying the Post-It notes on a piece of butcher paper, consider turning the sheet on its long side and starting the first step in the core process in the upper left hand corner of the sheet, then list the steps in sequence across the top of the sheet. The supportive processes can be clustered on the bottom one-half of the sheet. The answers to these questions reveal that there are several processes at work to generate what you produce. Some of them are linked to each other.