Matthias Schrepfer, Matthias Kunze, Gunnar Obst, Juliane Siegeris Business process management is an established discipline that is widely used in industry. Many companies focus on established methods to design, analyze, control, and optimize their business processes and to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction and close alignment with IT systems (cf. Hammer 2010). Rapidly growing […]
Chapter: Process redesign
The NESTT – Rapid Process Redesign at Queensland University of Technology
Michael Rosemann Situation faced: The higher education sector faces like most information-intensive industries an opportunity-rich, digital future. Nowadays, students demand contemporary, multi-channel learning experiences and fast evolving digital affordances provide universities with a growing design space for their future processes. Legislative changes, a globalizing market of learners and educational providers, and the emergence of new […]
The case of “3” – Collaborative BPM for business transformations in telecommunications
Dr. Thomas Karle, Kurt Teichenthaler Many business changes in the telecommunications sector are initiated by mergers and acquisitions, and the fast pace of this sector requires that businesses adjust or extend business processes in a minimum of time. “3,” the mobile communication brand of CK Hutchison Holdings, whose headquarters are in Hong Kong, is a […]
Establishment of a Central Process Governance Organization combined with Operational Process Improvements: Insights from a BPM Project at a leading Telecommunications Operator in the Middle East
Christian Czarnecki Situation faced: Because of customer churn, strong competition, and operational inefficiencies, the telecommunications operator ME Telco (fictitious name due to confidentiality) launched a strategic transformation program that included a Business Process Management (BPM) project. Major problems were silo-oriented process management and missing cross-functional transparency. Process improvements were not consistently planned and aligned with […]
Managing Environmental Protection processes via BPM at Deutsche Bahn
Ingo Rau, Iris Rabener, Jürgen Neumann, Svetlana Bloching Situation faced: The law demands environmental compensation for interventions in nature and landscapes through the Federal Nature Conservation Act. Deutsche Bahn, one of the largest construction facilitators in Germany, encounters several hundred new such compensation obligations per year. Deutsche Bahn plans and develops compensation measures that usually […]
Process Management in Construction. The Expansion of the Bolzano Hospital
Elisa Marengo, Patrick Dallasega, Marco Montali, Werner Nutt, Michael Reifer. Situation faced: Frener and Reifer (F&R) is a leader in engineering, fabricating, and installing facades with non-standard designs. The company was looking for comprehensive, domain-specific approaches to improve the company’s control over facade processes, from design to execution and monitoring. What makes process management particularly […]
Integrate Your Partners into Your Business Processes Using Interactive Forms: The Case of Automotive Industry Company HEYCO
Bernhard Schindlbeck, Peter Kleinschmidt Situation faced: The automotive industry company HEYCO-WERK Heynen GmbH & Co. KG (HEYCO) wanted to improve how it handled purchase order confirmations. Its purchase department spent a lot of time entering incoming purchase order confirmations from its vendors into its SAP system. This process had to be automated with the most […]
Kiss the documents! Or how the City of Ghent digitalizes its service processes.
Amy Van Looy & Sabine Rotthier Situation faced: The case focuses on the digitization of service processes in the City of Ghent. Front-office e-services are integrated into the corporate website and into the back office thanks to digitization of the internal way of working in value chains. Before 2014, the City’s digital services were limited […]
Adoption of RFID Technology: The Case of Adler—A European Fashion Retail Company
Roland Leitz, Andreas Solti, Alexander Weinhard, Jan Mendling Situation faced: Adler Modemärkte AG (Adler hereafter) is a fashion retailer that operates mainly in the German-speaking countries. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, firstmovers in the fashion retail sector began to adopt RFIDtechnology.Adlermonitored this newtechnology and decided to adopt it in 2010, even though it […]
Enabling Flexibility of Business Processes Using Compliance Rules. The Case of Mobiliar
Thanh Tran Thi Kim, Erhard Weiss, Christoph Ruhsam, Christoph Czepa, Huy Tran, and Uwe Zdun Situation faced: Insurance case work can follow established procedures only to a certain degree, as the work depends upon experienced knowledge workers who decide the best solutions for their clients. To produce quality documents in such a knowledge-intensive environment, business […]