A Meta-Design Approach for Collabora- tive Process Modeling

Modeling business processes has become a complex design task due to a increasing rate of organizational change. Therefore business process modeling is in search for ways to reach beyond the rigidity of traditional approaches. In order to overcome new challenges, like the involvement of a diverse stakeholder community and variability of models, end-user development (EUD) and collaboration are considered promising instruments. In this paper we propose to enhance collaborative process modeling by EUD concepts. Precisely we apply the Meta-Design guidelines to the domain of business process modeling and present a first prototypic environment for collaborative process modeling along with a case-study. The paper concludes by highlighting benefits and unsolved issues of our Meta-Design based process modeling approach and by indicating the next steps of our