TY - GEN
T1 - Positioning collaboration in business process model consolidation in VOs
AU - Malekan, Hodjat Soleimani
AU - Rezazade Mehrizi, Mohammmad H.
AU - Afsarmanesh, Hamideh
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - Further to sharing their knowledge and information, organizations in a VO can also benefit from sharing and even combining/consolidating their Business Processes (BPs) in order to save costs, apply their best practices, and provide value-added services. A number of challenges are associated with the needed environment for BP consolidation. Our approach to tackle these challenges is two-fold. First part is addressed in this paper and deals with the human and procedural aspects of this problem and introduces an environment to support stakeholders of independent organizations with creating common understanding of each other’s BPs and manually designing/testing consolidated BPs. The second part of our approach is however outside of the scope of this paper, which develops a semi-automated mechanism and algorithms to improve efficiency of defining and disambiguating consolidated BPs. Focused on first part, this paper presents results of an empirical study investigating performance and applicability of our approach, with about eighty participants.
AB - Further to sharing their knowledge and information, organizations in a VO can also benefit from sharing and even combining/consolidating their Business Processes (BPs) in order to save costs, apply their best practices, and provide value-added services. A number of challenges are associated with the needed environment for BP consolidation. Our approach to tackle these challenges is two-fold. First part is addressed in this paper and deals with the human and procedural aspects of this problem and introduces an environment to support stakeholders of independent organizations with creating common understanding of each other’s BPs and manually designing/testing consolidated BPs. The second part of our approach is however outside of the scope of this paper, which develops a semi-automated mechanism and algorithms to improve efficiency of defining and disambiguating consolidated BPs. Focused on first part, this paper presents results of an empirical study investigating performance and applicability of our approach, with about eighty participants.
KW - Business process consolidation
KW - Collaboration
KW - Merging organizations
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-45390-3_10
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-45390-3_10
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84989832912
SN - 9783319453897
T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 110
EP - 123
BT - Collaboration in a Hyperconnected World - 17th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2016, Proceedings
A2 - Camarinha-Matos, Luis M.
A2 - Afsarmanesh, Hamideh
A2 - Soares, António Lucas
PB - Springer New York LLC
T2 - 17th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2016
Y2 - 3 October 2016 through 5 October 2016
ER -