This article examines the role of management in business processes in relation to the process-oriented organization and strategy formation as a formal process (strategic planning). A questionnaire designed to measure these variables after the validity and reliability among a sample of 183 managers, officials and experts in working systems, information technology and strategic planning in major ...

Problem is, though, the picture of where we are right now in terms of business process modeling is very lopsided. Most organizations have at least started BPM initiatives, but some are still blueprinting their processes on brown paper while others are building up sophisticated model repositories comprising thousands of process models in different variants and releases. Quite diverse, I’d say. O...

In the current marketplace, there are maturity models, standards methodologies and guideline that can help an organization improve the way it does business. Software process assessment models, ISO/IEC 15504 and CMMI provide a tool to assess your organization’s software development capability. Experienced assessors make these assessments. However these models don’t supply systematic metrics for ...

It is widely acknowledged that Requirements Engineering (RE) has an important implication for the overall success of software or system development projects. As more and more organizations consider RE as the principal problem areas in the projects, improving RE process therefore appears critical for future business success. Moreover, nowadays there are evidences that support improving RE proces...

Business process management has received considerable attention and many companies achieved a high maturity level and hence, generated collections of process models that form a knowledge asset essential to their operations. These collections bear opportunities for innovation: Empirical research establishes methods and techniques to support and improve business process management; yet, these nee...

In order to identify and explore the strengths and weaknesses of business intelligence (BI) initiatives, managers need to assess the maturity of their BI efforts. For this, a wide range of maturity models has been developed. In this paper, we present an overview of BI maturity models and elaborate their methodical and conceptual characteristics. This overview helps to understand the topic of BI...

The adoption of business process improvement strategies is currently a concern of most organizations. The quest for the benefits of this improvement on resource optimization and the responsiveness of the organizations has raised several proposals for process improvement methodologies. These approaches differ both in the principles that support them, and in the specific area to which they are in...

Because of the increasing business pressures companies must be adaptable and flexible in order to withstand them. Inadequate business processes and low level of business process orientation, that in its core accentuates business processes as opposed to business functions and focuses on process performance and customer satisfaction, hider the ability to adapt to changing environment. It has been...

Process configuration deals with the problem of managing families of business process models, i.e. business process models that are similar to one another in many ways, yet differ in some other ways from one organization or industry to another. For example this problem arises in the context of multinational companies that need to localize their business processes to different legislations or qu...