John Krogstie, Merethe Heggset, Harald Wesenberg Situation faced: The petroleum industry is characterized by increased focus on safety and compliance with regulations, in addition to efficient operations. Earlier quality systems were represented in large binders of textual documents, which made important governing documentation difficult to access and unusable for operational personnel who wished to gain […]
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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 […]
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 […]
“Simply Modeling” – BPM from Everybody Recommendations from the Viral Adoption of BPM at 1&1
Florian Imgrund, Christian Janiesch, Christoph Rosenkranz Situation faced: 1&1 is a German Internet service provider that embraced business process management (BPM) in 2010 as a way to optimize its processes. The company expected BPM to increase corporate performance by realizing such customer-centric goals as high quality standards, reduced set-up times, shortened time-to-market cycles, and increased […]
Leading 20,000+ employees by a process-oriented management system – Insights into process management at Lufthansa Technik Group
Mirko Kloppenburg, Janina Kettenbohrer, Daniel Beimborn, Michael Bögle Situation faced: Structured documentation of an aviation company’s processes is a prerequisite to gaining an authority’s approval for aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul. Processes had been documented in a continuously growing number of PDF-based text documents, but the growing complexity of processes meant that this approach to process […]
Supporting process implementation with the help of tangible process models
Susanne Menges, Thomas Russack Situation faced: Companies invest considerable resources in the elaborate design of computer-based process models. Because of these models’ inherent complexity, they are not necessarily suitable for communicating with and training the employees who are supposed to apply them, but their understanding the processes is essential for efficient and effective work. Hence, […]
People-Centric, ICT-Enabled Process Innovations via Community, Public and Private Sector Partnership, and e-Leadership: The Case of the Dompe eHospital in Sri Lanka
Dr Wasana Bandara, Rehan Syed, Bandula Ranathunga, Dr K. B. Sampath Kulathilleka. Situation faced: This case study is a unique example of a people-centric ICT-enabled BPM effort that overcame many challenges through steady championship fuelled by a multi-sectorial support network (local community, government agencies, private sector and institutes of higher education). Driven by a desire […]