The material below is a rough draft full of typos, disorganization, poorly conceived sentences and so on. It's also one huge paragraph. Take some time to edit this so that it's more clear to readers.

(I understand this is a tough assignment. You'll probably need to make several edits through this before you come up with something to submit in Canvas. I'd recommend three steps: First, go through each sentence to decide what is the best subject and verb. If you recast the sentence with strong subject and verbs, then you'll have a better shot at understanding what this is trying to say. Second, organize the material so that there's a logical flow to it. Third, proofread it, fixing typos and so on (though you'll probably do a good bit of that in your first step). HOW YOU WILL BE GRADED I'm not looking for a perfect document (though that would be great if you came up with that). I'm just seeing how well you apply the principles of strong sentences, conciseness and clarity. Do what you can with this -- don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

In todays business environment the word process lacks the robust attention from business leaders. In affect, it is ill-defined and dont necessarily get the attention it truly needs or deserves. According to Merriam Webster, a process is defined as a series of actions that produce something or that lead to a particular result. However for any given business, this definition, although generically correct is lacking critical elements. Taking a step back, lets identify why are processes a key necessity for business. A business has a product or service that must reach their customers in order to generate revenue or satisfy a need as in the case of non-forprofit and charity environments. In order for these outputs product or service to travel from point A to B or business to customer, a process must be put in place. The key purpose of the process is to provide employees the direction needed to move the product or service to the customer. By their very nature, employees are humans and they tend to make mistakes, hence the addition of technology or automation. The process is meant to provide the technology the same insights given to the employees in order to move the product or service along its intended path to the customer. These directions provided to technology by the process, in most environments are termed, business requirements. Although a very simplistic definition, it is what businesses are attempting to do. Therefore the process is central to the integration platform for all business from which people and technology get its direction. If this is true, then why are businesses typically more focused on people and technology and not on their processes? Look at the spend categories of any business large or small and I will challenge you to find the investment dollars allocated to the process health of the process infrastructure. However, you will find major investments in people and technology. Who is minding the process? The people and technology, thats who. They have become the de facto process. Hence, leading to cost overruns and a lack of efficiencies. Processes have taken a back seat to the people and the technology. The larger the business the more prevalent is this practice. Take a look around your business, same department, same function, can be done 5 or 10 different ways. How many meetings have you been to where we are working around the $100 million dollar technology implementation that does nothing the way people were meant to work in that environment? Now everyone must work the way the technology is forcing them to work. People and technology, the de facto process.