Volume1

About

Leading organizations

Includes cases from world’s leading organizations in various sectors

Global

Presents cases from a wide range of regions around the world

Real-world

The first book to present an extensive collection of real-world cases on Business Process Management

Overview

This Springer book is the first to present a rich selection of real-world cases on Business Process Management. It reports on best practice as well as lessons learned from organizations that have leveraged Business Process Management (BPM) to innovation and transform their business.

With economic and societal sectors of all kinds being challenged by disruptive changes due to digital technologies, in particular, this book shows how process thinking enables organizations to master digital innovation and transformation. The real-world cases presented in this book show how organizations leverage BPM capabilities both for exploitation and exploration in a digital world.

The book intends to bring together the experience of organizations using BPM. The focus in neither on academic case studies, nor on offerings from consulting companies. The intent is to learn from the experience organizations using BPM have made. That said, both academic institutions as well as consulting companies may well be involved in the case, but the case has to be developed from the perspective of the BPM-adopting company and the way BPM was used to solve contemporary organizational challenges.

The cases provide valuable examples for practice, as well as interesting cases for students. All case descriptions follow a unified schema making the case knowledge easy accessible for readers.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Strategy and Governance

Methods

Information Technology

People and Culture

Who is Who

Case Description

Case Structure

All cases follow a unified structure that makes the relevant case knowledge easily accessible and transferrable to other contexts. Following the structure the chapters are short and sharp. The structure helps readers in finding the most interesting parts of the cases.

  1. Introduction – What is the story of the case? A brief narrative of the entire case informs readers by summarizing its key aspects.
  2. Situation faced – What was the initial problem that led to the action taken? The context of the case is specified concerning needs, constraints, incidents, and objectives.
  3. Action taken – What was done? What measures were undertaken, such as in regard to process redesign or process innovation? What methods and approaches were used?
  4. Results achieved – What effects resulted from the actions taken? Results could take the form of changes in performance measures and/or qualitative statements from employees, customers, and other business partners. To what degree were expectations met or not met?
  5. Lessons learned – What did the organization learn from the case? What can others learn? Lessons learned are grounded in the case and serve as example for others.

Frameworks

This book uses well-established BPM frameworks to characterize the cases it presents based on a shared language.

BPM Six Core Elements (Rosemann, vom Brocke, 2015):

The model helps to describe what actions an organization took to conduct BPM. It conceptualizes six BPM capability areas, namely: Strategic Alignment, Governance, Methods, Information Technology, People, and Culture. The key characteristic of the model is to enlarge the understanding of BPM from a mere technical concept towards a holistic management discipline. Click here for more material on the framework.

BPM Lifecycle-Modell (Dumas et al., 2013):

The model helps to structure the different tasks that are associated with BPM. It describes six major steps: process identification, process discovery, process analysis, process redesign, process implementation and process monitoring and controlling. The key characteristic of the model is to illlustrate how a BPM project or a BPM initiative can be organized towards arriving at an improved process. Click here for more material on the model.

BPM Context Framework (vom Brocke, Zelt, Schmiedel 2015):

The model helps to characterize a BPM initiative according to specific context factors, such as goal, process characteristics, organizational characteristics, and environmental characteristics. The key characteristic of the framework is to capture the situational nature of BPM. BPM needs to be aligned to the specific context of an organization and the BPM context framework helps to assess this context. Click here for more material on the framework.

Editors

Prof. Dr. Jan Mendling

Prof. Dr. Jan vom Brocke

Jan vom Brocke is the Hilti Endowed Chair of Business Process Management and Director of the Institute of Information Systems. Jan has conducted over 300 studies, published in renowned outlets including MIT Sloan Management Review, Management Science, MIS Quarterly (MISQ), Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), Journal of Information Technology (JIT), European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), and Information Systems Journal (ISJ). He has authored and edited over 30 books, including the International Handbook on Business Process Management, BPM – Driving Innovation in a Digital World, Green BPM: Toward the Sustainable Enterprise, and BPM Cases. Digital Transformation – Strategy, Processes and Execution. Jan is a globally recognized thought leader, recipient of over 20 international awards and he has been named Fellow of the Association for Information Systems. He is an invited speaker and trusted advisor on BPM serving many organizations around the world. See Jan`s website for more information.

Jan Mendling is the Einstein-Professor of Process Science with the Department of Computer Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. His research interests include various topics in the area of business process management and information systems. He has published more than 450 research papers and articles, among others in Management Information Systems Quarterly, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Journal of the Association of Information Systems and Decision Support Systems. He is a department editor for Business and Information Systems Engineering, member of the board of the Austrian Society for Process Management (http://prozesse.at), one of the founders of the Berlin BPM Community of Practice (http://www.bpmb.de), organizer of several academic events on process management, and a member of the IEEE Task Force on Process Mining. He is co-author of the textbooks Fundamentals of Business Process Management, Second Edition, (http://fundamentals-of-bpm.org/) and Wirtschaftsinformatik, 12th Edition, (https://lehrbuch-wirtschaftsinformatik.org/), which are extensively used in information systems education.

Editorial board

We are grateful for the support of colleagues and friends supporting this project on the editorial board of BPM Cases.

  • Saimir Bala, WU Vienna
  • Jörg Becker, University of Münster
  • Cristina Cabanillas, WU Vienna
  • Claudio Di Ciccio, WU Vienna
  • Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu
  • Maria Fay, University of Liechtenstein
  • Roope Jaakonmäki, University of Liechtenstein
  • Henrik Leopold, WU Vienna
  • Mikael Lind, Viktoria Swedish ICT and Chalmers University of Technology
  • Sonia Lippe-Dada, University of Liechtenstein
  • Peter Loos, Saarland University
  • Monika Malinova, WU Vienna
  • Charles Møller, Aalborg University
  • Michael zur Muehlen, Stevens Institute of Technology
  • Hajo Reijers, VU University Amsterdam | Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Maximilian Roeglinger, University of Bayreuth
  • Andreas Rogge-Solti, WU Vienna
  • Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology
  • Christoph Rosenkranz, University of Cologne
  • Alexander Schmid, University of Liechtenstein
  • Nadine Székely, University of Liechtenstein
  • Matthias Tietz, University of Liechtenstein
  • Peter Trkman, University of Ljubljana
  • Sanja Tumbas, University of Liechtenstein
  • Amy van Looy, Ghent University
  • Stijn Viaene, Vlerick Business School
  • Isabell Wohlgenannt, University of Liechtenstein
  • Sarah Zelt, University of Liechtenstein

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