Improving business processes: Does anybody have an Idea?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 9253, Issue , 2015, Pages 3-18

  Vanwersch, Rob J B ^a   Vanderfeesten, Irene ^a   Rietzschel, Eric ^b   Reijers, Hajo A ^c  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Controlled experiment; Improvement principles; Process innovation; Process redesign; RePro

Indexed keywords

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; IMPROVEMENT PRINCIPLES; PROCESS INNOVATION; PROCESS REDESIGN; REPRO;

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 84944683028     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23063-4_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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