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Business Process Management with Social Software Systems – A New Paradigm for Work Organisation

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Business Process Management Workshops (BPM 2008)

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Business process management systems are systems aimed to support the management of business processes in organizations. In recent years social software has emerged as an alternative approach for production and work management. In this paper, we contrast the two, identify and analyse similarities and differences, and propose a set of guidelines suggesting how they can be used in complementary ways to support work in organizations.

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  1. Deptartment of Computer and Systems Sciences, SU/KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

    Paul Johannesson, Birger Andersson & Petia Wohed

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  1. Paul Johannesson
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  1. Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Via Golgi 40, 20133, Milano, Italy

    Danilo Ardagna

  2. Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Via Salaria 113,, 00198, Roma, Italy

    Massimo Mecella

  3. Department of Computing, Macquarie University, 2109, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Jian Yang

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Johannesson, P., Andersson, B., Wohed, P. (2009). Business Process Management with Social Software Systems – A New Paradigm for Work Organisation. In: Ardagna, D., Mecella, M., Yang, J. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2008. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00328-8_66

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