Figure 11.4suggests that an internal management process could be made up of four major subprocesses: Plan Work, Organize Work, Communicate, and Control Work. Each of these subprocesses, in turn, includes a variety of different activities. Some of the activities, like Establish Plans and Schedules, are complex and could easily be classified as processes in their own right. Thus, we stress again that this overview of the management process is only one possible representation. As we saw in Chapter 5, several different frameworks have defined management processes, and each has grouped the tasks involved in different ways. It really makes little difference exactly how you conceptualize the management process at your company, but it is probably best to agree on a single, standard way of talking about the management process to facilitate effective communication. Companies that have a business process management group usually assign that group the responsibility for training managers in business process management skills. In that case, the Business Process Management group usually standardizes on one generic model of business process management and teaches all managers to use the same terms and to follow the same best practices. Given our preference for Plan, Organize, Communicate, and Control, we will organize the rest of our discussion around those four basic process management subprocesses.