Social Psychology of Organizations

13 EADERS of Mr. Bertrand Russell's philosophical £v works know that one of his pupils before the outbreak of the war, an Austrian, Mr. Ludwig Wittgenstein, caused him to change his views in some important particulars. Curiosity can now be satisfied. The “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus “which Mr. Ogden has included in his new library of philosophy is a remarkable and strikingly original work. It is published in German and English in parallel pages. It is difficult to appreciate the reason for this, seeing that the author is evidently familiar with our language and has himself carefully revised the proofs of the translation. Also we should have liked to have the Tractatus without Mr. Russell's Introduction, not, we hasten to add, on account of any fault or shortcoming in that introduction, which is highly appreciative and in part a defence of himself, in part explanatory of the author, but for the reason that good wine needs no bush and that Mr. Russell's bush has the unfortunate effect of dulling the palate instead of whetting the appetite. In his penultimate sentence Mr. Russell says; “To have constructed a theory of logic which is not at any point obviously wrong is to have achieved a work of extraordinary difficulty and importance.” We agree, but how uninspiring when compared with Mr. Wittgenstein's own statement of aim: “What can be said at all can be said clearly, and whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. By Ludwig Wittgenstein. (International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method.) Pp. 189. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd.; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., Inc., 1922.) 10s. 6d. net.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

The B Book

The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

Activities performed in organizations are coordinated via communication between the people involved The sentences used to communicate are naturally structured by subject, verb, and object The subject describes the actor, the verb the action and the object what is affected by the action Subject-oriented Business Process Management (S-BPM) as presented in this book is based on this simple structure which enables process-oriented thinking and process modeling S-BPM puts the subject of a process at the center of attention and thus deals with business processes and their organizational environment from a new perspective, meeting organizational requirements in a much better way than traditional approaches Subjects represent agents of an action in a process, which can be either technical or human (eg a thread in an IT system or a clerk) A process structures the actions of each subject and coordinates the required communication among the subjects S-BPM provides a coherent procedural framework to model and analyze business processes: its focus is the cooperation of all stakeholders involved in the strategic, tactical, and operational issues, sharing their knowledge in a networked structure The authors illustrate how each modeling activity through the whole development lifecycle can be supported through the use of appropriate software tools The presentation style focuses on professionals in industry, and on students specializing in process management or organizational modeling Each chapter begins with a summary of key findings and is full of examples, hints, and possible pitfalls An interpreter model, a toolbox, and a glossary summarizing the main terms complete the book The web site wwwi2pmnet provides additional software tools and further material

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Subject-Oriented Business Process Management

Subject-oriented Business Process Management (S-BPM) has emerged to a semantic paradigm, modeling, and implementation approach. This contribution reflects its current state of development. The review of underlying concepts and resulting benefits demonstrates the orientation towards actor responsibilities and communication transparency. The introduction of advanced modeling features reflects the capability of S-BPM to capture complex business cases while ensuring operational coherence.

What Is S-BPM?

Although many organizations operate in a process-driven way, few members are skilled in specifying and developing business processes—a skill that has become crucial for organization development, in particular to establish agile enterprises. This paper shows, on the basis of natural language constructs (subject, predicate, object) and communication patterns between actors (subjects), how individual members of an organization could contribute to coherent and intelligible process specifications. A language and tool supporting Subject-oriented Business Process Management (S-BPM) are introduced, allowing organizations to cope with strategic and operational challenges dynamically. As many organizations already work with BPM concepts and technologies, existing approaches to process modelling are also revisited with respect to representing natural language constructs and standard sentence syntax. Since most of them refer either to subjects, predicates, objects or to a respective combination, a roadmap can be developed for enriching existing modelling approaches. In doing so, organizations can benefit from stakeholder inputs for effective business process engineering re-using existing specifications.

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Whom to talk to? A stakeholder perspective on business process development

This is an introduction to software engineering for distributed systems. Concepts which are essential for the development of distributed programs are described in detail. It explains how software engineering methods for both non-distributed and distributed programs can be combined in order to use their advantages. The result is called "subject-oriented programming", and combines asynchronous parallel processes, eg threads and object oriented concepts. This hybrid approach makes it easier to design and implement distributed software systems and therefore increases the efficiency of the software engineering process.

Albert Fleischmann

Papers

Subject-Oriented Business Process Management

What Is S-BPM?

Whom to talk to? A stakeholder perspective on business process development

Distributed Systems: Software Design and Implementation

S-BPM ONE - Setting the Stage for Subject-Oriented Business Process Management