Framework for Business Process-Design Projects

This chapter explains and describes a detailed framework based on integrating a number of different methodological strands from the literature. A literature review was conducted in three different domains - business process re-design, supply chain re-design and e-business process design-. The literature review revealed potential for integrating elements of a number of different methods and techniques found in different methodological strands into a framework for conducting Business Process Re-design (BPR) to support Supply Chain Integration (SCI).The proposed BPR methodology can be applied in any company or sector; methods and techniques incorporated are not specific to any sector.

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Linking Natural Modeling to Techno-centric Modeling for the Active Involvement of Process Participants in Business Process Design

International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design ◽

10.4018/ijismd.2016040101 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 1-30 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Stefan Oppl ◽

Nancy Alexopoulou

Keyword(s):

Business Process ◽

Process Modeling ◽

Process Design ◽

Design Procedure ◽

Design Approach ◽

Efficient Design ◽

Business Process Design ◽

Formal Process ◽

Accurate Representation ◽

Active Involvement

Actively involving participants in business process modeling enables integration between elicitation and modeling steps of the BPM lifecycle. Such integration may lead to a more efficient design procedure and ultimately to a more accurate representation of the business process. However, active involvement of process participants creates several challenges, as the latter are not expected to have modeling skills. The purpose of this paper is to present a business process design approach, called CoMPArE /WP, which tightly integrates the elicitation and modeling stages of process design, through the active involvement of process participants. To achieve effective involvement of process participants, CoMPArE/WP adopts the principles of natural modeling. However, being a business process design approach aiming at supporting the whole BPM lifecycle, CoMPArE /WP deals also with the transition of natural modeling to formal process representations that can be enacted using a BPMS.

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A Design Tool for Business Process Design and Representation

Selected Readings on Information Technology Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-092-9.ch010 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 160-177

Author(s):

Roberto Paiano ◽

Anna Lisa Guido

Keyword(s):

Business Process ◽

Process Design ◽

Design Tool ◽

Formal Representation ◽

Middle Point ◽

Business Process Design ◽

Semantic Web Technology ◽

Web Information System ◽

Machine Readable ◽

Readable Format

In this chapter the focus is on business process design as middle point between requirement elicitation and implementation of a Web information system. We face both the problem of the notation to adopt in order to represent in a simple way the business process and the problem of a formal representation, in a machine-readable format, of the design. We adopt Semantic Web technology to represent process and we explain how this technology has been used to reach our goals.

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