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Business Process Modelling and Its Applications in the Business Environment

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Globalisation as the process of creating of a common, worldwide and open market is one of the key features of the external environment of business systems today.

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  1. ETI Elektroelement Jt. St. Compo, Izlake, Slovenia

    Brane Kalpic

  2. School of CIT, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia

    Peter Bernus

  3. Information Technology & Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

    Ralf Muhlberger

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Kalpic, B., Bernus, P., Muhlberger, R. (2005). Business Process Modelling and Its Applications in the Business Environment. In: Leondes, C.T. (eds) Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-7829-3_10

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