process

A process is a series or set of activities that interact to produce a result; it may occur once-only or be recurrent or periodic. Things called a process include: Business and management Business process, activities that produce a specific service or product for customers Business process modeling, activity of representing processes of an enterprise in order to deliver improvements Manufacturing process management, a collection of technologies and methods used to define how products are to be manufactured. Process architecture, structural design of processes, applies to fields such as computers, business processes, logistics, project management Process area, related processes within an area which together satisfies an important goal for improvements within that area Process costing, a cost allocation procedure of managerial accounting Process management (project management), a systematic series of activities directed towards planning, monitoring the performance and causing an end result in engineering activities, business process, manufacturing processes or project management Process-based management, is a management approach that views a business as a collection of processes Law Due process, the concept that governments must respect the rule of law Legal process, the proceedings and records of a legal case Service of process, the procedure of giving official notice of a legal proceeding