A business case document is an important project management decision-making tool for planning and evaluating potential investments in technology and process improvement projects. However, the effectiveness of traditional business case approaches for evaluating complex information technology (IT) investments, such as enterprise systems implementations is often questioned. A business case is a do...

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Process mining has emerged as a way to analyze processes based on the event logs of the systems that support them. Today’s information systems (e.g., ERP systems) log all kinds of events. Moreover, also embedded systems (e.g., medical equipment, copiers, and other high-tech systems) start producing detailed event logs. The omnipresence of event logs is an important enabler for process mining. T...

In recent years, workflow management systems have become an accepted technology to support automation in process-centric environments. Lately, organizations concentrate more and more on their core business processes while outsourcing supporting processes to other organizations, thereby forming virtual enterprises. To apply workflow management technology in these virtual enterprises, support for...

Organizational design is an important topic in the literature on organizations. Usually the design principles are addressed informally in this literature. This paper makes a first attempt to formally introduce design operators to formalize the design steps in the process of designing organizations. These operators help an organization designer create an organization design from scratch as well ...