Unraveling the Never-Ending Story of Lifecycles and Vitalizing Processes

Business process management (BPM) has been widely used to discover, model, analyze, and optimize organizational processes. BPM looks at these processes with analysis techniques that assume a clearly defined start and end. However, not all processes adhere to this logic, with the consequence that the...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inarXiv.org
Main Authors Fahrenkrog-Petersen, Stephan A, Saimir Bala, Pufahl, Luise, Mendling, Jan
Format Paper
LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 25.07.2024
Subjects
Business process management
Life cycle analysis
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:Business process management (BPM) has been widely used to discover, model, analyze, and optimize organizational processes. BPM looks at these processes with analysis techniques that assume a clearly defined start and end. However, not all processes adhere to this logic, with the consequence that their behavior cannot be appropriately captured by BPM analysis techniques. This paper addresses this research problem at a conceptual level. More specifically, we introduce the notion of vitalizing business processes that target the lifecycle process of one or more entities. We show the existence of lifecycle processes in many industries and that their appropriate conceptualizations pave the way for the definition of suitable modeling and analysis techniques. This paper provides a set of requirements for their analysis, and a conceptualization of lifecycle and vitalizing processes.
ISSN:2331-8422