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The Process of Business Process Management

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Abstract

This chapter describes the process of Business Process Management (BPM), and highlights the phases of business process strategy, business process design, business process implementation and business process controlling. Innovative approaches, like business process tailoring are introduced. After that the elements needed, to establish a holistic, organization-wide BPM approach are described. An optimal organizational infrastructure for achieving a holistic BPM approach and to identify the processes, roles, and responsibilities that need to be put in place will be introduced. The chapter starts with an emphasis put on the necessity of a holistic, organization-wide BPM approach and typical misinterpretations of the meaning of BPM within that context. Based on an analysis of the process of BPM itself, the main elements of a holistic BPM approach are then identified and described in more detail. The description of the Center of Excellence for BPM, its services and responsibilities within a company, and the resulting roles needed for a company’s BPM structures build a guide for the organizational implementation of BPM.

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Notes

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    Burlton (2014) is dedicated to present a methodological framework for realizing business strategy through process management. Process governance is regarded a vital prerequisite to establish a sustainable process architecture which is aligned with the business strategy.

  2. 2.

    For a detailed discussion refer to van der Aalst (2014). The chapter by zur Mühlen and Shapiro (2014) is dedicated to the overall field of process analysis and provides a comprehensive overview of analysis methods, such as process mining and process simulation.

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    Heckl and Moormann (2014) comprehensively discuss related problems and methods.

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Scheer, AW., Hoffmann, M. (2015). The Process of Business Process Management. In: vom Brocke, J., Rosemann, M. (eds) Handbook on Business Process Management 2. International Handbooks on Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45103-4_15

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