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VO breeding environments & virtual organizations integral business process management framework

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This paper presents a set of guidelines in terms of business process for VO Breeding Environments (VBEs) and Virtual Organizations (VOs) management based-on ECOLEAD Project Results. A detail description of an Integral Business Process Management (I-BPM) Framework, using Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is presented. The I-BPM framework describes a set of process models that depict what happens during each VBE and VO management processes, taking the point of view of an external observer, to provide rationale of activities that should be carried out by a set of VBE actors to achieve the expected business process results.

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The research presented in this document is a contribution for the ECOLEAD Project, funded by the European Community, FP6 IP 506958, for the “Rapid Product Realization for Developing Markets Using Emerging Technologies” Research Chair, ITESM, Campus Monterrey, and for the “Technological Innovation” Research Chair, ITESM, Campus Ciudad de México. The authors wish to acknowledge the support of the Innovation Center in Design and Technology from ITESM, Campus Monterrey.

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Romero, D., Molina, A. VO breeding environments & virtual organizations integral business process management framework. Inf Syst Front 11, 569–597 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-009-9195-7

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