In the current economy, a shift can be seen from stand-alone business organizations to networks of tightly collaborating business organizations. To allow this tight collaboration, business process management in these collaborative networks is becoming increasingly important. This paper discusses automated support for this networked business process management: automated means to manage business...

Although the process of public and stakeholder participation continues to be intensively investigated and discussed in academic circles, the implementation of participatory methods in practice remains problematic. This can be attributed to the lack of knowledge transfer on the one hand, and the general underestimation of participatory approaches in planning processes on the other. A possible so...

Organisations in Sweden have been working with the methodology of process management since the end of the 1980s. Many organisations have tried implementing process management, but not all have succeeded. The purpose of this research is, through empirical research, to develop current knowledge and create a level of understanding of Process Management that could have practical implications for or...

The literature suggests that maturity assessment tools could be successful if based on process capabilities which are the outcomes of critical success factors and barriers to a process. This paper investigate the configuration management process capabilities finalized on the basis of semi-structured interviews with configuration management professionals and analysis of two highly significant st...

In the context of the implementation of increasingly complex IT systems a solid high quality and complete requirements analysis is a must. No one will dispute this statement seriously and yet the requirements analysis process and in particular, the process-oriented analysis is an unloved stepchild in many projects. When asked about the reasons, we always encounter the same familiar suspects: no...

Integrated project management means that design and construction planning are interleaved with plan execution, allowing both the design and plan to be changed as necessary. This requires that the right eeects of change need to be propagated through the plan and design. When this is distributed among designers and planners, no one may have all of the information to perform such propagation and i...

Internally, the delivery of products and services to customers is the end result of co-ordinated activities by different groups working within the business. Companies seem to go through an irreversible life cycle that leads them towards specialisation, complexity and functional parochialism. However hard we try to avoid the situation developing, the entrepreneurial start of the business, where ...

− Previous research has provided metadata models that enable the capturing of the static components of a data warehouse architecture, along with information on different quality factors over these components. This paper complements this work with the modeling of the dynamic parts of the data warehouse. The proposed metamodel of data warehouse operational processes is capable of modeling complex...

recognize the need for continuous software process improvement (SPI) in order to improve the quality and productivity of products and to keep up their competitiveness. Although efforts have been made, organizations continue without success in achieving the intended goals. Recognizing that the most critical problems occurs during project activities, we strongly believe that both development proc...