
Business Process Management
Akhil Kumar(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 12. February 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
270 pages
978-1-138-18185-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book introduces students to business process management, an approach that aims to align the organization's business processes with the demands of the marketplace. Processes serve as a coordination mechanism, and the aim of business process management is to improve the organization's effectiveness and efficiency in adapting to change, and maintaining competitive advantage.
In Business Process Management, Kumar argues for the value of looking at businesses as a collection of processes that cut across departments, and for breaking down functional silos. The book provides an overview of the basic concepts in this field before moving on to more advanced topics such as process verification, flexible processes, process security and evaluation, resource assignment, and social networks. One chapter of the book is also devoted to process analytics. The book concludes with an examination of the future directions of the discipline.
Blending a strong grounding in current research with a focus on concepts and tools, Business Process Management is an accessible textbook full of practical examples and cases that will appeal to upper level students.
In Business Process Management, Kumar argues for the value of looking at businesses as a collection of processes that cut across departments, and for breaking down functional silos. The book provides an overview of the basic concepts in this field before moving on to more advanced topics such as process verification, flexible processes, process security and evaluation, resource assignment, and social networks. One chapter of the book is also devoted to process analytics. The book concludes with an examination of the future directions of the discipline.
Blending a strong grounding in current research with a focus on concepts and tools, Business Process Management is an accessible textbook full of practical examples and cases that will appeal to upper level students.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate and Professional
Illustrations
177 s/w Abbildungen, 21 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 156 s/w Zeichnungen, 33 s/w Tabellen
33 Tables, black and white; 156 Line drawings, black and white; 21 Halftones, black and white; 177 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
528 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-18185-4 (9781138181854)
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Person
Akhil Kumar is Professor of Information Systems at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He has over 25 years of experience teaching a variety of information systems courses to undergraduate and graduate students. He was a co-program chair for the International Business Process Management conference in 2017.
Content
1. Evolution of Process Thinking
2. How to Model a Process?
3. Data and Resource Modeling
4. Data-Centric Business Process Modeling
5. Modeling for Variation and Flexibility: Dealing with Change
6. Verification of Business Processes
7. Process Evaluation
8. Business Process Security
9. Real-Time and Temporal Processes
10. Social BPM
11. Process Analytics
12. Future Directions
2. How to Model a Process?
3. Data and Resource Modeling
4. Data-Centric Business Process Modeling
5. Modeling for Variation and Flexibility: Dealing with Change
6. Verification of Business Processes
7. Process Evaluation
8. Business Process Security
9. Real-Time and Temporal Processes
10. Social BPM
11. Process Analytics
12. Future Directions