Patent ID: 8832580

Claim:
A method including the steps of: providing a business process comprising a plurality of business process steps; generating, by a machine, an angular business process view corresponding to the business process: with the angular business process view defining at least an angular direction and a radial direction; with each business process step being represented as a corresponding angular block in the angular business process view, wherein each angular block is allocated an angular segment as a function of at least one of a number of parallel concurrent process steps and a number of alternatively concurrent process steps; with a radial length of each angular block that is a function of the amount of time that the corresponding business process step takes to complete; with the ordering of the angular blocks in the angular direction representing different process step chains or sub-chains and with the ordering of the angular blocks in the radial direction representing temporal order of the business process steps; with process steps that are radially aligned, but angularly offset, representing parallel concurrent or alternatively concurrent process steps; and creating, by a machine, a visual representation of the angular business process view.