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Business Process Model and Notation

About: Business Process Model and Notation is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 9038 publications have been published within this topic receiving 190712 citations. The topic is also known as: Business Process Modeling Notation & BPMN.


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TL;DR: B-SCP is presented, a requirements engineering framework for organizational IT that directly addresses an organization's business strategy and the alignment of IT requirements with that strategy.
Abstract: Ensuring that organizational IT is in alignment with and provides support for an organization's business strategy is critical to business success. Despite this, business strategy and strategic alignment issues are all but ignored in the requirements engineering research literature. We present B-SCP, a requirements engineering framework for organizational IT that directly addresses an organization's business strategy and the alignment of IT requirements with that strategy. B-SCP integrates the three themes of strategy, context, and process using a requirements engineering notation for each theme. We demonstrate a means of cross-referencing and integrating the notations with each other, enabling explicit traceability between business processes and business strategy. In addition, we show a means of defining requirements problem scope as a Jackson problem diagram by applying a business modeling framework. Our approach is illustrated via application to an exemplar. The case example demonstrates the feasibility of B-SCP, and we present a comparison with other approaches.

186 citations

Journal Article
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss how all these above mentioned principles can be integrated together and how the standard approach in process specification might be extended with the spatial dimension to make business process models more natural and understandable.

186 citations

Patent
20 Mar 2001
TL;DR: In this article, a system and method for the graphical definition of top-down workflow process models is presented utilizing a set of software tools, including three main components: the process designer, the process server and the process clients.
Abstract: A system and method is presented utilizing a set of software tools for the graphical definition of top-down workflow process models. The present invention has three main components: the process designer (300), the process server (500), and the process clients. The process designer (300) allows users to define the business processes from the top down without programming. The process definitions are made up of components, such as tasks and subprocesses. Tasks in the present invention incorporate all GUI panels necessary for an end-user (602) to complete the task. Events link the process model. Process models also include roles, end-users (602) , business logic, and other components. Adapters allow business data and logic external to the present invention to be incorporated into the process model. The process model definitions are then installed on the process server (500), which presents the tasks to end-users (602). End-user (602) access and perform tasks through the process clients.

186 citations

Book ChapterDOI
12 Jun 1994
TL;DR: It is concluded that both types of scenario and goal analysis are necessary for effective BPR.
Abstract: This paper presents experiences in applying the goal decomposition and scenario analysis model in the context of Business Process Reengineering (BPR). The relationships of goals, scenarios, as well as the understanding and description of business processes are discussed. Different methods of goal refinement, and the application of scenarios to support this process of refining goals and roles are reviewed. A case study is presented which serves to exemplify and validate the process of using scenarios in refining business process descriptions. We tried deriving full scenarios for business processes, but obtaining them from the organization's prescriptive goals was difficult. Explanatory scenarios that justify descriptive goals are easier to obtain but are fragmentary. We conclude that both types of scenario and goal analysis are necessary for effective BPR. The need for technology support for this process is discussed and attention is given to future anticipated research in this area.

185 citations

Proceedings ArticleDOI
05 Apr 2005
TL;DR: ADEPT2 offers powerful concepts for modeling, analyzing, and verifying process schemes, and ensures schema correctness, like the absence of deadlock-causing cycles or erroneous data flows, which constitutes an important prerequisite for dynamic process changes.
Abstract: In the ADEPT project we have been working on the design and implementation of next generation process management software. Based on a conceptual framework for dynamic process changes, on novel process support functions, and on advanced implementation concepts, the developed system enables the realization of adaptive, process-aware information systems (PAIS). Basically, process changes can take place at the type as well as the instance level: changes of single process instances may have to be carried out in an ad-hoc manner and must not affect system robustness and consistency. Process type changes, in turn, must be quickly accomplished in order to adapt the PAIS to business process changes. ADEPT2 offers powerful concepts for modeling, analyzing, and verifying process schemes. Particularly, it ensures schema correctness, like the absence of deadlock-causing cycles or erroneous data flows. This, in turn, constitutes an important prerequisite for dynamic process changes as well. ADEPT2 supports both ad-hoc changes of single process instances and the propagation of process type changes to running instances.

183 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202383
2022208
2021122
2020164
2019211
2018242