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Collaborative Process Design in Cloud Environment

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Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2011 and 2012 Workshops (WISE 2011, WISE 2012)

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This paper presents an approach to adoption of BPM in an organization, with emphasis on collaboration with process participants. We present subset of our methodology for end-to-end BPM adoption, aimed to describe collaborative processes mapping, iterative process design and further process improvement. Such technique preserves organization’s flexibility as it helps to obtain realistic processes easily adaptable to changing business requirements. We further explain how to foster collaboration by use of a cloud-based environment for process design and define some more general requirements on such environment. We approach general obstacles of BPM adoption observed by practitioners and scientist and explain how the methodology can help to deal with some of those obstacles by involving process participants to collaboration on process design and improvement.

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  1. Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Botanická 68a, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Jiří Kolář & Tomáš Pitner

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  1. Information Engineering Laboratory, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia

    Armin Haller

  2. Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

    Guangyan Huang

  3. Department of Computer Science, Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Zhisheng Huang

  4. The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Hye-young Paik

  5. Department of Computer Science, Adelaide University, 5005, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Quan Z. Sheng

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Kolář, J., Pitner, T. (2013). Collaborative Process Design in Cloud Environment. In: Haller, A., Huang, G., Huang, Z., Paik, Hy., Sheng, Q.Z. (eds) Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2011 and 2012 Workshops. WISE WISE 2011 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7652. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38333-5_8

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