ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS PROCESS FLEXIBILITY AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION

Marite Kirikova, Renate Strazdina, Janis Grundspenkis, Janis Osis

2007

Abstract

Business process flexibility is understood as capability of the process to be changed without replacing it completely. This implies that there should be one part of the process that may be changed and another part of the process (process core) that should not be changed. The challenge of business process analysis is the detection and separation of these process subparts. One of the possible ways to meet this challenge is through use of topological functional modeling and utilization of graph theory methods, such as paths and cycle detection in a digraph at different levels of abstraction. The cycles that are found at several levels of abstraction may help detecting the core of the business process while other cycles may point to the changeable parts of the process.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kirikova M., Strazdina R., Grundspenkis J. and Osis J. (2007). ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS PROCESS FLEXIBILITY AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: Applications in a Real World, (ICEIS 2007) ISBN 978-972-8865-91-7, pages 389-396. DOI: 10.5220/0002416203890396

in Bibtex Style

@conference{applications in a real world07,
author={Marite Kirikova and Renate Strazdina and Janis Grundspenkis and Janis Osis},
title={ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS PROCESS FLEXIBILITY AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: Applications in a Real World, (ICEIS 2007)},
year={2007},
pages={389-396},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002416203890396},
isbn={978-972-8865-91-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: Applications in a Real World, (ICEIS 2007)
TI - ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS PROCESS FLEXIBILITY AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION
SN - 978-972-8865-91-7
AU - Kirikova M.
AU - Strazdina R.
AU - Grundspenkis J.
AU - Osis J.
PY - 2007
SP - 389
EP - 396
DO - 10.5220/0002416203890396