Does it matter which process modelling language we teach or use? An experimental study on understanding process modelling languages without formal education

ACIS 2007 Proceedings - 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 356-366

  Recker, Jan ^a   Dreiling, Alexander ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b SAP Research CEC Brisbane   (Australia)

Author keywords

BPMN; Cognitive theory; EPC; Experiment; Process modelling

Indexed keywords

BPMN; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; COGNITIVE THEORY; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; EPC; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FORMAL EDUCATION; IN-PROCESS; LEARNING OUTCOME; PROCESS MODELLING; TRAINING PROGRAM;

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; EXPERIMENTS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PERSONNEL TRAINING;

PROCESS ENGINEERING;

EID: 84869141301     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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