Moving Across Paradigms between the Process Design and Enactment Phase in Enterprise Information Systems

Filip Caron, Jan Vanthienen

2012

Abstract

While the business process management literature often assumes a single approach (e.g. procedural or event-driven) over the process lifecycle, a transition between approaches at different phases in the process lifecycle may significantly reduce the impact of intrinsic trade-offs between process characteristics. This position paper explores several business process strategies by analyzing the approaches at different phases in the process lifecycle as well as the various transitions.

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Caron F. and Vanthienen J. (2012). Moving Across Paradigms between the Process Design and Enactment Phase in Enterprise Information Systems . In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8565-12-9, pages 218-223. DOI: 10.5220/0003999202180223


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@conference{iceis12,
author={Filip Caron and Jan Vanthienen},
title={Moving Across Paradigms between the Process Design and Enactment Phase in Enterprise Information Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2012},
pages={218-223},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003999202180223},
isbn={978-989-8565-12-9},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - Moving Across Paradigms between the Process Design and Enactment Phase in Enterprise Information Systems
SN - 978-989-8565-12-9
AU - Caron F.
AU - Vanthienen J.
PY - 2012
SP - 218
EP - 223
DO - 10.5220/0003999202180223