Process grammar as a tool for business process design

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 757-778

  Lee, Jintae ^a   Wyner, George M ^b   Pentland, Brian T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business process alternative generation; Business process design; Business process reengineering; Design science; Design space; Grammar based design; Grammatical approach; Process design

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; REENGINEERING; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

ALTERNATIVE GENERATION; BUSINESS PROCESS DESIGN; BUSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING; DESIGN SCIENCE; DESIGN SPACES; GRAMMATICAL APPROACH;

PROCESS DESIGN;

EID: 55949119033     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/25148871     Document Type: Article

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