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Business Process Management: A Holistic Management Approach

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Information Systems: Methods, Models, and Applications (UNISCON 2012)

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BPM is a holistic management approach applied by organizations worldwide in different settings and scenarios to address complex requirements of their stakeholders. In this paper an introduction on existing methodologies on business process design and tools is provided and the BPMS paradigm as a generic life cycle approach is proposed for application of a meta modelling platforms to address current and future challenges in different BPM related settings. Categorization of the best practices according to the application context is provided by presenting corresponding cases.

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    Dimitris Karagiannis

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    Heinrich C. Mayr  & Christian Kop  & 

  2. Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA

    Stephen Liddle

  3. School of Computing, Engineering & Mathematics, University of Western Sydney, Penrith, NSW, Australia

    Athula Ginige

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Karagiannis, D. (2013). Business Process Management: A Holistic Management Approach. In: Mayr, H.C., Kop, C., Liddle, S., Ginige, A. (eds) Information Systems: Methods, Models, and Applications. UNISCON 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 137. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38370-0_1

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