An empirical assessment of the usefulness of weakness patterns in business process redesign

ECIS 2012 - Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Becker, Jörg ^a   Bergener, Philipp ^a   Breuker, Dominic ^a   Räckers, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

(Semi )automated weakness detection; Business process analysis; Semantic business process management; Weakness patterns

Indexed keywords

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

AUTOMATED ANALYSIS; BUSINESS PROCESS ANALYSIS; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; BUSINESS PROCESS REDESIGN; EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT; PROCESS MODELLING METHODS; PUBLIC ORGANISATION; WEAKNESS PATTERNS;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 84905758107     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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