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BPM 2015 – The 13th International Conference on Business Process Management

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BPM 2015, hosted by the University of Innsbruck and BPM Research Cluster, will take place in Innsbruck, from August 31 until September 3, 2015. The BPM Research Track will focus on topics such as Relationship between business strategy and business processes Business process transformation and change management Success factors and measures in BPM BPM maturity …

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Process Management in Service Organizations VS. Manufacturing Companies

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How is process management applied in service organizations? Do service providers apply process management practices differently to manufacturers? Does firm size play a role? The brand new paper “Process Management Practices: Organizational (Dis-)Similarities” by D. Weitlaner and M. Kohlbacher, published in the The Service Industries Journal a few days ago, addresses these questions. The study …

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What is Process Mining?

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Process mining techniques allow for extracting information from event logs. Process mining takes existing data records from your IT systems, extracts the business process (and its variations) and automatically generates understandable visualizations of the business process. Because existing IT records are the basis for process mining, objective visualizations of the real business process are obtained. …

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12th International Conference on Business Process Management

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This year’s Business Process Management Conference (BPM 2014) will take place in Haifa, September 7-11, 2014. The BPM conference series embraces the diversity and richness of the BPM field and serves as a melting pot for experts from a mix of disciplines including Computer Science, Information Systems Management, Services Science and Technology Management. Process modeling …

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Comprehensibility of Process Models

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Doris Weitlaner presented her paper on “Intuitive Comprehensibility of Process Models” at the conference “S-BPM One 2013”. The study empirically examines the use of semiformal process modeling languages in companies. It could be revealed that formal BPM has still not been accepted as a useful practice in firms. Corporations mainly rely on flowcharts in order …

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11th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2013)

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BPM 2013 is the 11th edition of the reference conference for researchers and practitioners in the field of Business Process Management (BPM). The conference covers all aspects of BPM, including theory, models, techniques, architectures, systems, and empirical studies, and engages the most renowned representatives of the BPM community worldwide in talks, tutorials, and scientific discussions. …

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The Effects of Process-Oriented Organizational Design on Firm Performance

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This article briefly summarizes the study “The Effects of Process-Oriented Organizational Design on Firm Performance”, by M. Kohlbacher and H. A. Reijers, which is to be published in the Business Process Management Journal. The study investigates which process management components (i.e. process design and documentation, management commitment towards process management, process ownership, process performance measurement, …

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Process Ownership and Continuous Process Improvement: Effects on Financial Performance and Customer Satisfaction

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This article introduces the study “The Joint Impact of Process Ownership and Continuous Process Improvement on Financial Performance and Customer Satisfaction” by D. Weitlaner, M. Kohlbacher and A. Kamagaew, which will be presented at the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management in Hong Kong in December 2012. The study is nominated for …

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How Process Management Impacts Innovation Performance

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This article briefly summarizes the study “The Effects of Process Orientation on Exploitative and Explorative Innovation”, by D. Weitlaner and M. Kohlbacher, which will be presented at the 32nd Annual International Conference of the Strategic Management Society, which will take place in Prague, October 7-9, 2012. The presentation of the paper will take place in …

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Developing an Enterprise Process Model Based on Cascading and Segmentation of Business Processes: A Case Study

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This article introduces the study “Process Cascade- and Segmentation-Based Organizational Design: A Case Study” by Kohlbacher M. and Weitlaner D., which was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management in Singapore in December 2011. The paper discusses the approach of process cascading and segmentation, a design principle which helps organizations …

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