Santhosh Kumaran

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze and present outsourcing conditions for three contract types: (1) price-only contracts where an ex-ante transfer price is set for each unit supplied by the subcontractor, (2) incomplete contracts, where both parties negotiate over the subcontracting transfer, and (3) state-dependent contracts for which they show an equivalence result.

TL;DR: The main objective of this paper is to establish the value of operational modeling in business transformation and to incorporate the lessons learned into a more comprehensive account of the method.

TL;DR: In this article, an XML-based specification referred to as BPCL (Business Process Commitment Language) is used to describe business commitments, which are used by a business process management (BPM) system to configure, monitor, and control business processes based on business commitments.

TL;DR: The goal of this paper is to formalize the information-centric approach to business process modeling and derive the relationships between the two approaches by formally defining the notion of a business entity from first principles and using this definition to derive an algorithm that generates an Information-centric process model from an activity-centric model.

TL;DR: In this paper, a system and method for creating and managing a business process integration solution comprises modeling a business strategy including elements representing business measurements and initiatives according to defined business goals and objectives of an entity, modeling business operations of the entity in terms of business process elements including process tasks, artifact flows and artifact repositories, and business commitment elements including incorporating key performance indicators.