Achieving the highest level of efficiency in terms of time and cost in performing any business activity has been the guiding principle of successful businesses for a long time. In 1911, Frederick Winslow Taylor, the father of scientific management, published the following four principles of scientific management:
Replace rule-of-thumb work methods with methods based on a scientific study of the tasks
Scientifically select, train, and develop each employee rather than leave them to train themselves
Provide detailed instructions and supervise how each worker performs in his or her discrete task
Divide work equally between managers and workers, so that the managers apply scientific management principles to plan the work, and the workers actually perform the tasks
These ideas of sequencing tasks and allocating them to workers to produce results with business values are known today as business processes.
Taylor defined ideas precisely on how to implement business processes...