AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH FOR BUSINESS PROCESS REDESIGN - Towards an Intelligent System

Mariska Netjes, Selma Limam Mansar, Hajo A. Reijers, Wil M. P. van der Aalst

2007

Abstract

Although extensive literature on BPR is available, there is still a lack of concrete guidance on actually changing processes for the better. It is our goal to provide a redesign approach which describes and supports the steps to derive from an existing process a better performing redesign. In this paper we present an evolutionary approach towards business process redesign and explain its first three steps: 1) modelling the existing process, 2) computing process measures, and 3) evaluating condition statements to find applicable redesign “best practices”. We show the applicability of these steps using an example process and illustrate the remaining steps. Our approach has a formal basis to make it suitable for automation.

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Netjes M., Limam Mansar S., A. Reijers H. and M. P. van der Aalst W. (2007). AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH FOR BUSINESS PROCESS REDESIGN - Towards an Intelligent System . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-90-0, pages 47-54. DOI: 10.5220/0002356900470054


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@conference{iceis07,
author={Mariska Netjes and Selma Limam Mansar and Hajo A. Reijers and Wil M. P. van der Aalst},
title={AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH FOR BUSINESS PROCESS REDESIGN - Towards an Intelligent System},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={47-54},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002356900470054},
isbn={978-972-8865-90-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH FOR BUSINESS PROCESS REDESIGN - Towards an Intelligent System
SN - 978-972-8865-90-0
AU - Netjes M.
AU - Limam Mansar S.
AU - A. Reijers H.
AU - M. P. van der Aalst W.
PY - 2007
SP - 47
EP - 54
DO - 10.5220/0002356900470054