Business enterprise, process, and technology management models and applications /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Shankararaman, Venky., Zhao, J. Leon., Lee, Jae Kyu.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2012.
• Subjects: Industrial management.; Information technology.; Agile workflow systems; BPM and service-oriented computing; Business process architecture; Business process innovation; Business process optimization; Business process services; Event-based process modeling; Knowledge workflow systems; Recent advances in workflow technologies; Scientific workflow systems; Time-based process modeling; Unstructured process modeling; Verification of business process models; Workflow-based application integration
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"This book generates a comprehensive overview of the recent advances in concepts, technologies, and applications that enable advanced business process management in various enterprises"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Business-oriented process management / Ming-Chien Shan
• 2. Business process portfolio management: a strategic alignment perspective / Shawn Clark and Brian Cameron
• 3. Business process modeling / Donald R. Chand and Alina M. Chircu
• 4. Building semantic business process space for agile and efficient business processes management: ontology-based approach / Gunwoo Kim and Yongmoo Suh
• 5. Business process management and Six Sigma: leveraging the synergistic relationship / Suresh Subramoniam ... [et al.]
• 6. Discrete event models for web service processes / Yuhong Yan and May Haydar
• 7. Enhancing e-commerce processes with alerts for credit card payment / Dickson K.W. Chiu ... [et al.]
• 8. Integrating and measuring business and technology services in the context of enterprise architecture / Péter Fehér
• 9. Model-based validation of business processes / Alireza Pourshahid ... [et al.]
• 10. On flexibility in business process management systems / Amit V. Deokar and Nazim Taskin
• 11. Extending workflows for knowledge flow automation / Surendra Sarnikar and J. Leon Zhao
• 12. Specification and performance characteristics of scientific grid workflows / Radu Prodan
• 13. Business process management in financial services / Randall E. Duran
• 14. Business process reengineering a sustained trend?: an analysis about the practice in major German companies / Thomas Hess and Dagmar Schuller.