Paper Info
Title
Towards Living Inter-organizational Processes
Abstract
Business Process Management (BPM) has gained significant adoption in practice for enabling organizations to increase their effectiveness, efficiency, and flexibility. This broad adoption has not only been fostered by a rich and well-established theory to model, analyze, simulate, and enact business processes, but also by internationally accepted standards and mature technologies. Caused by the ever increasing speed and volatility of markets and the dynamics of new technologies, such as cloud infrastructures and mobile communications, we face a new generation of business processes, which we refer to as living inter-organizational processes. Such processes are not in control of one single organization, instead, they are enacted by multiple organizations, where no participating party possesses full control over the entire process. Such processes often involve a high number of actors that might even be unknown in advance. These actors require various degrees in participation, they are acting in heterogeneous environments. Moreover, such processes are often weakly structured or designed in an ad-hoc manner, and have to be continuously subject to evolution. Unfortunately, existing theories, methodologies, and technologies cannot cope with this challenging combination of aspects, which all have to be considered when dealing with living inter-organizational processes. The state of the art typically addresses singular aspects in isolation. However, a holistic approach to these challenges bears a tremendous potential. This paper aims to contribute towards a holistic approach to living inter-organizational processes. To this end, we describe different perspectives on inter-organizational processes and identify challenges for making them living processes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/CBI.2013.59
CBI
Keywords
Field
DocType
business process,broad adoption,accepted standard,new technology,new generation,inter-organizational processes,significant adoption,inter-organizational process,business process management,full control,holistic approach,information systems,traceability,organizations,correctness,bpm,data models,mobile communications,scalability,process control
Information system,Business process management,Data modeling,Business process,Knowledge management,Emerging technologies,Traceability,Cloud computing,Business,Scalability
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.43
0
Authors
14
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ruth Breu184389.52
Schahram Dustdar29347575.71
Johann Eder31547391.78
Christian Huemer435371.56
Gerti Kappel51575349.41
Julius Köpke6447.27
Philip Langer745129.29
Jürgen Mangler8395.33
Jan Mendling94250245.37
Gustaf Neumann1079484.54
Stefanie Rinderle-Ma111323103.54
Stefan Schulte1221322.62
Stefan Sobernig1314318.97
Barbara Weber1441.78