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RUPERT: A Modelling Tool for Supporting Business Process Improvement Initiatives

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Advancing the Impact of Design Science: Moving from Theory to Practice (DESRIST 2014)

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Abstract

Business process improvement (BPI) will be a high priority topic for CEOs in the near future. Currently available BPI approaches, however, lack means for adequately codifying, documenting and processing knowledge created in a BPI project. Therefore we developed RUPERT (Regensburg University Process Excellence and Reengineering Toolkit), which is a tool for managing knowledge in a BPI project, covering all stages of the knowledge lifecycle. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of RUPERT.

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  1. Business Engineering, University of Regensburg, Germany

    Florian Johannsen

  2. Research Group Knowledge Engineering, University of Vienna, Austria

    Hans-Georg Fill

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  1. College of Business, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, 33199, Miami, FL, USA

    Monica Chiarini Tremblay

  2. Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, 33199, Miami, FL, USA

    Debra VanderMeer

  3. University of Nevada Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway, 89154-6001, Las Vegas, NV, USA

    Marcus Rothenberger

  4. University of Tennessee Chattanooga, 615 McCallie Avenue, 37403, Chattanooga, TN, USA

    Ashish Gupta

  5. Virginia Commonwealth University, 301 W. Main Street, 23284-4000, Richmond, VA, USA

    Victoria Yoon

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Johannsen, F., Fill, HG. (2014). RUPERT: A Modelling Tool for Supporting Business Process Improvement Initiatives. In: Tremblay, M.C., VanderMeer, D., Rothenberger, M., Gupta, A., Yoon, V. (eds) Advancing the Impact of Design Science: Moving from Theory to Practice. DESRIST 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8463. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06701-8_37

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