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Prioritising Business Processes

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This chapter presents the research problems. Then, the methodology used towards the design of the Prioritisation and Categorisation Method is demonstrated. Following that, the contributions of the research are summarised. Finally, the disposition of the book is given.

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—Aristotle

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Ohlsson, J., Han, S. (2018). Introduction. In: Prioritising Business Processes. SpringerBriefs in Business Process Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70398-5_1

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