By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Computers, Networks & Communications -- Investigators publish new report on Information Technology - Information Systems. According to news reporting originating in Augsburg, Germany, by VerticalNews journalists, research stated, “Deciding which business processes to improve is a challenge for all organizations. The literature on business process management (BPM) offers several approaches that support process prioritization.”
The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the University of Augsburg, “As many approaches share the individual process as unit of analysis, they determine the processes’ need for improvement mostly based on performance indicators, but neglect how processes are interconnected. So far, the interconnections of processes are only captured for descriptive purposes in process model repositories or business process architectures (BPAs). Prioritizing processes without catering for their interconnectedness, however, biases prioritization decisions and causes a misallocation of corporate funds. What is missing are process prioritization approaches that consider the processes’ individual need for improvement and their interconnectedness. To address this research problem, the authors propose the ProcessPageRank (PPR) as their main contribution. The PPR prioritizes processes of a given BPA by ranking them according to their network-adjusted need for improvement. The PPR builds on knowledge from process performance management, BPAs, and network analysis - particularly the Google PageRank. As for evaluation, the authors validated the PPR’s design specification against empirically validated and theory-backed design propositions.”
According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “They also instantiated the PPR’s design specification as a software prototype and applied the prototype to a real-world BPA.”
For more information on this research see: Prioritization of Interconnected Processes. Business & Information Systems Engineering , 2018;60(2):95-114. Business & Information Systems Engineering can be contacted at: Springer Heidelberg, Tiergartenstrasse 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, Germany. (Springer - www.springer.com; Business & Information Systems Engineering - http://www.springerlink.com/content/1867-0202/)
Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting M. Lehnert, Univ Augsburg, Res Center Finance & Informat Management, D-86159 Augsburg, Germany. Additional authors for this research include M. Roglinger and J. Seyfried.
The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-017-0490-4. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.
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CITATION: (2018-04-19), Researchers from University of Augsburg Report Findings in Information Systems (Prioritization of Interconnected Processes), Computers, Networks & Communications, 619, ISSN: 1944-1568, BUTTER® ID: 015511382
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