The Architectural Foundation
Two structural principles that define where AI legitimately belongs
The BPM Task Is Abstract — the Worker Is Bound by the Process Model
Task
abstract container
what gets done, not who
Human Worker
System Service
AI Agent
AI does not replace BPM tasks.
AI becomes a kind of worker
that the process model assigns.
The Service Consumption Principle
"Each value chain is a use case of the services it uses."
— Cummins 2010
SERVICE CONSUMPTION CHAIN
Business
Model
Value Chain
Activity
Process
Model
Task
(abstract)
Service Layer
Data Svcs
Bus. Rules
Integration
Human-task UI
AI / Agent ← enters the architecture here
Cummins 2010 · OMG 2011 · Samuelson 2016