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Companies must apply their innovation capabilities in an agile way to achieve an immediate impact while preparing for disruptive improvements. This is especially important for digital transformations which deliver their value through the resulting business processes. Business process management (BPM) as a management discipline helps to address these needs. Correctly set up, the BPM-Discipline delivers more than just efficiencies, quality, or compliance. It establishes an agile and focused innovation capability within an organization. Process management delivers process innovation in the form of new or enhanced business processes, organizes the way organizations address innovation, and helps manage the innovation process. This paper examines the relationship between process management and innovation. It shows how the discipline of BPM becomes a major enabler of agile innovation that delivers the full potential of digital transformation initiatives.
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Kirchmer, M. (2022). Agile Innovation Through Business Process Management: Realizing the Potential of Digital Transformation. In: Shishkov, B. (eds) Business Modeling and Software Design. BMSD 2022. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 453. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11510-3_2
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