Re-designing process architectures towards a framework of design dimensions

Alexei Lapouchnian, Eric Yu, Arnon Sturm

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Abstract

Organizations rely on a multiplicity of processes covering everything from their day-to-day functioning to longer term viability. Together, these processes and their interrelationships constitute the business process architecture (BPA) of the organization. While efforts have been dedicated to the analysis and design of business processes, the question of how processes in an organization should best relate to each other (i.e., the design of the BPA) has received relatively little consideration. Supported by technological and business innovations, the torrent of changes faced by today's organizations, forces them to stop looking at their processes individually and focus on designing BPAs, especially concentrating on balancing flexibility/agility and other objectives, such as cost and efficiency. In this paper, we propose a framework for BPA design with several dimensions along which activities or decisions could potentially be repositioned across processes and a goal-driven approach for analyzing possible BPA configurations.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIEEE RCIS 2015 - 9th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, Proceedings
EditorsColette Rolland, Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos, Pericles Loucopoulos, Cesar Gonzales-Perez
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages205-210
Number of pages6
EditionJune
ISBN (Electronic)9781467366304
DOIs
StatePublished - 19 Jun 2015
Event9th IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, IEEE RCIS 2015 - Athens, Greece
Duration: 13 May 201515 May 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science
NumberJune
Volume2015-June
ISSN (Print)2151-1349
ISSN (Electronic)2151-1357

Conference

Conference9th IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, IEEE RCIS 2015
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityAthens
Period13/05/1515/05/15

Keywords

  • business process architecture
  • flexibility
  • process modeling
  • requirements
  • variability

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Information Systems
  • Software

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