Integrated structural and process configuration

A computer-implemented method for integrating structural and process configuration comprising:

• configuring a business structure;
• configuring business processes of the business structure;
• linking the configured business structure to the configured business processes into a linked business process structure wherein linking the configured business structure and the configured business processes into the linked business process structure includes:
• a) identifying the subunits of the business structure;
• b) identifying the business processes of the business structure;
• and
• c) linking the business processes to each subunit of the business structure;
• and
• deriving a plurality of independent processes for each subunit of the business structure based on the linked business process structure wherein deriving the plurality of independent processes for each subunit of the business structure based on the linked business process structure includes:
• a) searching for a similar function in a related organization for each function of the linked business process structure;
• b) copying the similar function to each subunit of the business structure if there is not an organizational break between each subunit of the business structure and the related organization;
• and
• c) modifying each function of the linked business process structure if there is an organizational break between each subunit of the business structure and the related organization.