Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide a structured overview of so‐called business
process improvement (BPI) approaches and their contribution to the actual act of improving …

Process improvement is the most value-adding activity in the business process management
(BPM) lifecycle. Despite mature knowledge, many approaches have been criticized to lack …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to propose how to minimize the risks of implementing
business process reengineering (BPR) by measuring readiness. For this purpose, the paper …

Purpose Significant numbers of business process management (BPM) projects fail. Their
failure is attributed toward many factors. Among them, low quality of BPM is one reason …

The design and improvement of business processes is of central importance for realizing
benefits of information systems. A broad spectrum of methods has been proposed since the …

Organizations increasingly recognize the need to adopt a process orientation as a means of
approaching challenges such as globalization, Enterprise Systems implementations or …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to survey and analyze current process improvement
(PI) approaches, their empirical results reported in the literature, and develop accordingly a …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to analyse the importance and role of process
knowledge in the business process (BP) improvement methodology with the help of a case …

The bibliographic review yielded a set of tasks that were grouped conceptually into
“designing processes”,“managing processes from day to day” and “fostering process‐related …

The aim of the research outlined in this paper is to demonstrate the implementation of a
Cyber-Physical System (CPS) within the Automotive Industry for the monitoring and control …