Business Process Trends Spotlight

Tool support for Service Oriented Development from Business Processes

The integration of Business Process Management (BPM), Service Oriented Computing (SOC) and Model Driven Development (MDD) paradigms to improve the development of services oriented solutions from business models is nowadays in the spotlight. Organizations wanting to remain competitive despite the constant changes in their business are paying more attention to their business processes and its bas...

Spotlight on BuSineSS Model innovation The CEO ’ s Role In Business Model

Editorial Paper CURRENT TRENDS IN BUSINESS PROCESS MODELLING

Globalisation trends and competitive pressure urge many organisations to radically change business processes. As organisations need to adapt to new trading conditions and respond to competition, various change management approaches such as business process re-engineering (BPR) are being adopted. This management concept relates to the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of an entire busi...

Spotlight on Publications: Latin American Microfinance

The following selection presents some of the key publications focusing on the microfinance sector in Latin America. Addressing a variety of issues related to microfinance in the region, and highlighting examples from a diverse group of Latin American countries, the publications can be grouped into the following categories: Assessing Risk; Regulations and Regulatory Frameworks; Impact Evaluation...

A Method to Align Goals and Business Processes

Business Process Modeling (BPM) has been for a number of years in the spotlight of research and practice, aiming at providing organizations with conceptual modeling-based representations of the flow of activities that generate its main products and services. It is essential that such flow of activities is engineered in a way to satisfy the organization’s goals. However, the work on BPM still ma...