Improving the Accessibility of Business Process Modelling Tools

2013 ◽  
pp. 383-411
Author(s):  
Daryoush Daniel Vaziri ◽  
Domingos DeOliveira
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Process Modelling ◽  
Business Process Modelling ◽  
Modelling Languages ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Accessibility Evaluation ◽  
Selection Of

This chapter concerns with the accessibility of Business Process Modelling tools (BPMo tools) and Business Process Modelling languages (BPMo languages). Therefore, the reader is introduced to accessibility first. The authors provide definitions, standards, and a status quo on accessibility. Afterwards, the chapter concerns business process management. The reader learns definitions for processes and advantages and disadvantages of modelling languages. The BPM section is closed with the selection of a proper modelling notation for the accessibility evaluation. In form of two separate analyses, the authors evaluate the accessibility of two BPM tools. The results and recommendations for actions are presented after each analysis.

A Survey of Risk-Aware Business Process Modelling

2020 ◽  
pp. 1004-1016
Author(s):  
Hanane Lhannaoui ◽  
Mohammed Issam Kabbaj ◽  
Zohra Bakkoury
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Process Modelling ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Business Process Modelling ◽  
Business Process Models ◽  
Related Information

For organizations, risk is a key concept when dealing with business process. Integrating risks aspects during business process management starts with an accurate consideration of risk's characteristics in the modelling phase. Most research is needed on integrating risk and business process modelling. Actually, the literature suggests various approaches to represent risk-related information in business process models. The diversity of those methods and the fact that this domain is still emerging make it difficult to choose the most suitable language. This paper aims to represent a survey of the existing risk-annotated business process model's notations.

A Survey of Risk-Aware Business Process Modelling

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 14-26
Author(s):  
Hanane Lhannaoui ◽  
Mohammed Issam Kabbaj ◽  
Zohra Bakkoury
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Process Modelling ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Business Process Modelling ◽  
Business Process Models ◽  
Related Information

For organizations, risk is a key concept when dealing with business process. Integrating risks aspects during business process management starts with an accurate consideration of risk's characteristics in the modelling phase. Most research is needed on integrating risk and business process modelling. Actually, the literature suggests various approaches to represent risk-related information in business process models. The diversity of those methods and the fact that this domain is still emerging make it difficult to choose the most suitable language. This paper aims to represent a survey of the existing risk-annotated business process model's notations.

scholarly journals Investigating Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering for Business Processes

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geert Poels ◽  
Ken Decreus ◽  
Ben Roelens ◽  
Monique Snoeck
Keyword(s):  
Requirements Engineering ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Process Modelling ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Business Process Modelling ◽  
Goal Modelling

Business processes are designed to execute strategies that aim at achieving organisational goals. During the last decade, several methods have been proposed that prescribe the use of goal-oriented requirements engineering techniques for supporting different business process management activities, in particular business process modelling. The integration of goal modelling and business process modelling aims at increasing the alignment between business strategies and the processes with their supporting IT systems. This new research area, which the authors call Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering for Business Processes (GORE-for-BP), is developing rapidly, but without a clear conceptualization of the focus and scope of the proposed GORE-for-BP methods. Furthermore, an overview is lacking of which methods exist and what their level of maturity is. This paper therefore presents a research review of the GORE-for-BP area, with the aim of identifying relevant methods and assessing their focus, scope, and maturity. This study used Systematic Literature Review and Method Meta-Modelling as research methods to identify and evaluate the state of the GORE-for-BP research area and to propose a research agenda for directing future research in the area. Nineteen methods were identified, which is an indication of an active research area. Although some similarities were found with respect to how goal models are transformed into business process models (or vice-versa), there is also considerable divergence in modelling languages used and the extent of coverage of typical requirements engineering and business process management lifecycle phases. Furthermore, the exploitation of requirements engineering techniques in the full business process management lifecycle is currently under researched. Also, the maturity of the methods found in terms of the formalisation of the transformation activity, the elaboration of method guidelines, and the extent to which methods are validated, can be further improved.

scholarly journals BUSINESS PROCESS MODELLING IN THE FRAMEWORK OF A SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miroslav Drljaca
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Management System ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Process Modelling ◽  
Structural Element ◽  
Business Process Modelling ◽  
Safety Management System ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages

Business processes are a structural element of the management system of every organization.They take place in all organizations regardless of their level of awareness.If there is no awareness of the business processes in the organization, they become spontaneous and not managed.If the level of awareness about the ongoing processes is high, and if the processes were identified, documented and managed, business process management can be discussed.When modelling business processes, it is possible to apply different methods and use different tools. In this research, the author has applied both general and special scientific methods of cognition and research methods of business processes modelling in the Safety Management System, citing their advantages and disadvantages. The result of the research is a proposal for a method that can be used to model business processes of a Safety Management System and to ensure continuous improvement of the system. Keywords: safety management system, the methodology of business process modelling.

scholarly journals Business Process Analysis and Improvement in Selling Process Using Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) at Locarvest

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fadhilah Amalina ◽  
Yuanita Handayati
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Process Modelling ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Business Process Modelling ◽  
Business Process Modelling Notation ◽  
Selling Process ◽  
Current Business

This research is conducted in Locarvest. Established in 2015, Locarvest is an online platform company that selling agricultural products based in Bandung. They see the importance of agricultural products for humans and people who like to shop online as an opportunity for them to sell local agricultural products online. Currently, they have been developing a website to change their selling platform which will be launched soon in the late of July 2019. They assume that the website can create a simpler selling process. However, they do not have their written business process where many companies have become increasingly interested in business processes due to the need for effective and efficient activities (Dave, 2017). In here, the objectives of this research are to analyze and model the current business process of Locarvest and propose a new business process to solve Locarvest’s current problem using the concept of Business Process Management (BPM) and the design is modeled using Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN). To model the current business process, interviews with the employees of Locarvest and observation in the office were conducted. The result of this paper is proposing some improvements within the business process by eliminating some activities and create some new activities for Locarvest. The design also has been approved by the employees of Locarvest. Keywords: Business process, Business Process Management, Business Process Modelling Notation, case study, agriculture

scholarly journals Context-Aware Business Process Management

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan vom Brocke ◽  
Marie-Sophie Baier ◽  
Theresa Schmiedel ◽  
Katharina Stelzl ◽  
Maximilian Röglinger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Design ◽  
Context Awareness ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Design Science ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
The Status ◽  
Successful Business

AbstractContext awareness is essential for successful business process management (BPM). So far, research has covered relevant BPM context factors and context-aware process design, but little is known about how to assess and select BPM methods in a context-aware manner. As BPM methods are involved in all stages of the BPM lifecycle, it is key to apply appropriate methods to efficiently use organizational resources. Following the design science paradigm, the study at hand addresses this gap by developing and evaluating the Context-Aware BPM Method Assessment and Selection (CAMAS) Method. This method assists method engineers in assessing in which contexts their BPM methods can be applied and method users in selecting appropriate BPM methods for given contexts. The findings of this study call for more context awareness in BPM method design and for a stronger focus on explorative BPM. They also provide insights into the status quo of existing BPM methods.

scholarly journals Is there a Need for Agent-based Modelling and Simulation in Business Process Management?

Organizacija ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 255-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michal Halaška ◽  
Roman Šperka
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Modelling And Simulation ◽  
Simulation Experiments ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Agent Based Modelling ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Impact

AbstractBackground and Purpose: Agent-based modelling and simulation (ABS) is growing in many areas like, e.g., management, social and computer sciences. However, the similar trend does not seem to occur within the field of business process management (BPM), even though simulation approaches like discrete event simulation or system dynamics are well established and widely used. Thus, in our paper we investigate the advantages and disadvantages of agent-based modelling and simulation in the field of BPM in simulation experiments.Design/Methodology/Approach: In our research, we investigate if there is a necessity for ABS in the field of BPM with our own simulation experiments to compare traditional and ABS models. For this purpose, we use simulation framework MAREA, which is a simulation environment with integrated ERP system. Our model is a complex system of a trading company selling computer cables. For the verification of our model, we use automated process discovery techniques.Results: In our simulations, we investigated the impact of changes in resources’ behavior on the outcome of company’s order to cash process (O2C). Simulations experiments demonstrated that even small changes might have statistically significant effect on outcomes of the processes and decisions based on such outcomes. Simulation experiments also demonstrated that the impact of randomly distributed fluctuations of well-being have a diminishing tendency with the increasing number of sales representatives involved in the process.Conclusions: Our research revealed several advantages and disadvantages of using ABS in business process modelling. However, as we show, many of them were at least partially addressed in the recent years. Thus, we believe that ABS will get more attention in the field of BPM similarly to other fields like, e.g., social sciences. We suggested areas in BPM simulations, e.g., modelling of resources, be it human or technological resources, where there is a need for ABS.

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