Process Management in Service Organizations VS. Manufacturing Companies

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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The Components of Business Process Management

This article summarizes the study “Process orientation: Conceptualization and Measurement” by Kohlbacher M. and Gruenwald S., to be published in the Business Process Management Journal in 2011, Volume 17, Issue 2. The paper empirically explores the “building blocks” (“components”) of business process management. The article first considers the following definitions of business process management: The …

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Survey on Process Management: Definition and Documentation of Business Processes

This article discusses the issue “documentation of business processes” of the process management survey. Details on the survey (research design, sample, etc.) can be found here. Most firms have defined a complete and uniform enterprise process model. The item “Our firm has developed a complete and uniform enterprise process model illustrating the business processes of …

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The Characteristics of Process Orientation. Part 1: Design and Documentation of Business Processes

Business processes present a difficult challenge in identification and analysis since they are often unknown quantities, have no names, and are not visualized in organizational charts (Kiraka and Manning, 2005). A prerequisite for managing an organization based on its processes is to know which business processes are performed within the organization and how they are …

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Main Characteristics of a Process-Oriented Organization

According to (Hammer, 2007; Harmon, 2007; Hinterhuber, 1995; Melan, 1989; Reijers, 2006), an organization which has adopted the process-view exhibits the following characteristics: First, a prerequisite for managing an organization based on its processes is to know which business processes are performed within the organization and how they are related to each other. Hence, a …

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