If you've seen Return of the Jedi, you know the climactic battle isn't one mission. It's three running simultaneously: Han's team on Endor fighting to destroy the shield generator, Lando leading the Rebel fleet against the Imperial armada, and Luke facing Vader and the Emperor aboard the Death Star itself.

Each mission has its own path. Its own obstacles. And its own way of derailing everything else.

Han's team gets ambushed. The shield stays up. The X-wings are temporarily turned away. Lando's fleet absorbs punishment it was never supposed to take. One snag in one thread cascades across all the others.

The Rebels didn't win because any single mission went perfectly. They won because all the threads eventually came together. But imagine trying to understand what happened  or what nearly went wrong  by only reviewing one mission. You'd never see the full picture.

For many organizations, that's exactly where process mining is today. And there's a powerful next step.