TY - GEN
T1 - Re-designing process architectures towards a framework of design dimensions
AU - Lapouchnian, Alexei
AU - Yu, Eric
AU - Sturm, Arnon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/6/19
Y1 - 2015/6/19
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - business process architecture
KW - flexibility
KW - process modeling
KW - requirements
KW - variability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84937901681&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/RCIS.2015.7128881
DO - 10.1109/RCIS.2015.7128881
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84937901681
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science
SP - 205
EP - 210
BT - IEEE RCIS 2015 - 9th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, Proceedings
A2 - Rolland, Colette
A2 - Anagnostopoulos, Dimosthenis
A2 - Loucopoulos, Pericles
A2 - Gonzales-Perez, Cesar
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
T2 - 9th IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, IEEE RCIS 2015
Y2 - 13 May 2015 through 15 May 2015
ER -