The book “Die Wertschöpfungsmaschine” (a suitable English title would be “The Value Creation Machine”) deals with the question of how value creation can be optimally organized. The authors see process and organizational structures that do not fit the strategy as the biggest obstacle for companies to give their best. Without grey theories the book introduces …
The 10th Business Process Management Conference, organized by the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics, took place in Ljubljana, October 14-15, 2015. The keynote speech “Process Management Practices, Organizational Excellence, and Firm Performance” by M. Kohlbacher was about organizational excellence, i.e. how the organization needs to be designed to gain rigoros performance improvements. Buiding on …
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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 …
This article summarizes the study “The Performance Effects of Process Cascade-Based Organizational Design” by Kohlbacher M. and Weitlaner D., which was presented at the IEEE 2011 7th International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices in Salamanca, Spain, in October 2011. An organizational design based on process cascades is an approach where the business process …
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The idea of process cascades (representing internal customer-supplier relationships between business processes of an organization) was originally developed by Tipotsch (1997), Schantin (2004), and Suter (2004). The idea is illustrated in the figure below. Process A, acting as an internal customer, places an order to Process B, acting as an internal supplier. After receiving the …