Agile Process Management in an Industrial R&D Department

Abstract

In a more and more dynamic world market with tougher competition and external, unpredictable risks, an integrated business process management is a key success factor. It is of high importance to be able to flexibly respond to continuously changing environmental requirements and thus ensure the essential agility. Qualitative and successful operational activities without defined processes are just feasible in micro organizations. The bigger an organization is the more important well-known and, in particular, documented processes become for the employees. Especially in large organizations with a variety of value-adding business processes, it is moreover of great importance to build up a consistent change management and stakeholder management, which work closely with the actual business process management for the successful execution of the processes or the goal-oriented structure of the actual business process management.