1st Edition

Business Process Management

By Akhil Kumar Copyright 2018
292 Pages 177 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages 177 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages
by Routledge

This book introduces students to business process management, an approach that aims to align the organization's business processes with the demands of the marketplace. Processes serve as a coordination mechanism, and the aim of business process management is to improve the organization’s effectiveness and efficiency in adapting to change, and maintaining competitive advantage. In Business... Read more

1. Evolution of Process Thinking

2. How to Model a Process?

3. Data and Resource Modeling

4. Data-Centric Business Process Modeling

5. Modeling for Variation and Flexibility: Dealing with Change

6. Verification of Business Processes

7. Process Evaluation

8. Business Process Security

9. Real-Time and Temporal Processes

10. Social BPM

11. Process Analytics

12. Future Directions

Biography

Akhil Kumar is Professor of Information Systems at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He has over 25 years of experience teaching a variety of information systems courses to undergraduate and graduate students. He was a co-program chair for the International Business Process Management conference in 2017.