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Green Business Process Management
No full textIn managing their operations, organizations have traditionally focused on economic imperatives in terms of time, cost, efficiency, and quality. In doing so, they have been a major contributor to environmental degradation caused by re-source consumption, greenhouse emissions, and wastage. As a consequence, or-ganizations are increasingly encouraged to improve their operations also from an ecological perspective, and thus to consider environmental sustainability as an additional management imperative. In order to lessen their impact on the natural environment, organizations must design and implement environmentally sustainable processes, which we call the challenge of Green Business Process Management (Green BPM). This chapter elaborates on the challenge and perspec-tive of Green BPM, and explores the contributions that business process management can provide to creating environmentally sustainable organizations. Our key premise is that business as well as information technology managers need to engage in a process-focused discussion to enable a common, comprehensive understanding of organizational processes, and the process-centered opportunities for making these processes, and ultimately the organization as a process-centric entity, “green.” Through our review of the key BPM capability areas and how they can be framed in terms of environmental sustainability considerations, we provide an overview and introduction to the subsequent chapters in this book
Modeling and analyzing the carbon footprint of business processes
No full textMany corporations and individuals realize that environmental sustainability is an urgent problem to address. In this chapter, we contribute to the emerging academic discussion by proposing two innovative approaches for engaging in the development of environmentally sustainable business processes. Specifically, we describe an extended process modeling approach for capturing and documenting the dioxide emissions produced during the execution of a business process. For illustration, we apply this approach to the case of a government Shared Service provider. Second, we then introduce an analysis method for measuring the carbon dioxide emissions produced during the execution of a business process. To illustrate this approach, we apply it in the real-life case of a European airport and show how this information can be leveraged in the re-design of "green" business processes
Process Modeling in the 21st Century
No full textProcess Modeling is like turning a lot of light bulbs on in the minds of managers
Conceptual model evaluation. Towards more paradigmatic rigor
No full textInformation Systems (IS) research has so far been primarily concerned with the development of new modeling languages, techniques, and methods. Also, evaluation approaches have been developed in order to assess the appropriateness of a modeling approach in a given context. Both modeling and evaluation approaches, however, lack epistemological rigor, leading to problems regarding the applicability of a certain modeling language in a given context on the one hand, and regarding the feasibility of certain evaluation approaches towards certain modeling questions on the other hand. We therefore argue for a philosophical-paradigmatic discussion of evaluation methods for conceptual modeling languages in order to assess their applicability in given modeling contexts and present our research in progress towards a framework for paradigmatic discussion on model evaluation
From idea to transaction
No full textOrganizations often have some innovation capability but typically not across all stages of the innovation process. Understanding key requirements of each stage helps shifting the capability focus to cover the entire innovation process
How was school today?
No full textWhat I want to do in this Column, is to paint a picture of the current BPM education portfolios that are offered globally by universities active in the BPM space.\ud
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To do so, I will draw on work I was involved in that reviewed the BPM teaching capacities of five universities in the United States, Europe, Africa and Australia. My ambition is to complement the listings in the BPTrends Academic Program with a more comprehensive and in-depth discussion of a selected set of universities. Let us explore how BPM capability development is implemented and offered in different universities around the globe
Scientific Research in Information Systems : A Beginner's Guide
No full text- Covers entire research process from start to end\ud
- Places particular emphasis on motivational components, modes of inquiry in scholarly conduct, theorizing and planning research\ud
- Includes aspects such as publication and ethical challenges\ud
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This book is designed to introduce doctoral and other higher-degree research students to the process of scientific research in the fields of Information Systems as well as fields of Information Technology, Business Process Management and other related disciplines within the social sciences. It guides research students in their process of learning the life of a researcher. In doing so, it provides an understanding of the essential elements, concepts and challenges of the journey into research studies. It also provides a gateway for the student to inquire deeper about each element covered. Comprehensive and broad but also succinct and compact, the book is focusing on the key principles and challenges for a novice doctoral student
Opportunities and constraints : the current struggle with BPMN
No full textPurpose: The Business Process Modeling Notation is an increasingly important standard for process modeling and has enjoyed high levels of attention in business practice. In this paper, experiences are shared from several research projects investigating the uptake and user acceptance of BPMN by analysts world-wide. This personal viewpoint offers a number of implications for BPM practice and seeks to stimulate and guide further research and other developments in this area.-----\ud
Design/methodology/approach: This article offers a personal viewpoint based on the experiences and findings gathered from survey research and interviews on the use of BPMN. While details on research execution are mostly omitted, references are provided to guide the interested reader to the methodology used in the original studies.-----\ud
Findings: First, statistics are provided on the usage of BPMN by process modelers world-wide. Amongst others, it is shown that the high interest in BPMN has created a massive demand for BPM education and training. Second, a number of usage problems related to the practice of process modeling with BPMN are described and suggestions are provided how organizations have developed workarounds for these problems. Third, it is suggested that BPMN is over-engineered and more insights into practical usage are needed for future development.-----\ud
Research limitations / implications: While being based on empirical research, a limitation of this paper is the lack of detail about research execution; however, references are provided. The paper offers a personal viewpoint on the state of current and future practice of process modeling and discusses a range of implications for future research.\ud
Practical implications – The paper describes a number of commonly encountered pitfalls when modeling processes with BPMN. It also provides directions for the organizational implementation and future development of process modeling as well as implications for various BPMN stakeholders.-----\ud
Originality/value: This viewpoint is derived from some of very few empirical studies on the usage of BPMN specifically and BPM standards generally
Of ivory towers and boundary spanners
No full textWe all live in a yellow submarine…\ud
When I go to work in the morning, in the office building that hosts our BPM research group, on the\ud
way up to our level I come by this big breakout room that hosts a number of computer scientists,\ud
working away at the next generation software algorithms and iPad applications (I assume). I have\ud
never actually been in that room, but every now and then the door is left ajar for a while and I can\ud
spot couches, lots (I mean, lots!) of monitors, the odd scientist, a number of Lara Croft posters,\ud
and the usual room equipment you’d probably expect from computer scientists (and, no, it’s not\ud
like that evil Dennis guy from the Jurassic Park movie, buried in chips, coke, and flickering code\ud
screens… It’s also not like the command room from the Nebuchadnezzar, Neo’s hovercraft in the\ud
Matrix movies, although I still strongly believe these green lines of code make a good\ud
screensaver)
Explaining usage of process modeling grammars : comparing three theoretical models in the study of two grammars
No full textOur objective was to determine the factors that lead users to continue working with process modeling grammars after their initial adoption. We examined the explanatory power of three theoretical models of IT usage by applying them to two popular process modeling grammars. We found that a hybrid model of technology acceptance and expectation-confirmation best explained user intentions to continue using the grammars. We examined differences in the model results, and used them to provide three contributions. First, the study confirmed the applicability of IT usage models to the domain of process modeling. Second, we discovered that differences in continued usage intentions depended on the grammar type instead of the user characteristics. Third, we suggest implications and practice
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