Developing organization-wide BPM capabilities in an SME: The approaches used, challenges and outcomes

Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 92-113

  Bandara, Wasana ^a   Opsahl, Hanna ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Business process management; Process centric organization; SMEs; Teaching case

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015153919     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20438869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/s41266-016-0014-y     Document Type: Article

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