The biggest business process management problems to solve before we die
Beerepoot, Iris; Di Ciccio, Claudio; Reijers, Hajo A.; Rinderle-Ma, Stefanie; Bandara, Wasana; Burattin, Andrea; Calvanese, Diego; Chen, Tianwa; Cohen, Izack; Depaire, Benoît; Di Federico, Gemma; Dumas, Marlon; van Dun, Christopher; Fehrer, Tobias; Fischer, Dominik A.; Gal, Avigdor; Indulska, Marta; Isahagian, Vatche; Klinkmüller, Christopher; Kratsch, Wolfgang; Leopold, Henrik; Van Looy, Amy; Lopez, Hugo; Lukumbuzya, Sanja; Mendling, Jan; Meyers, Lara; Moder, Linda; Montali, Marco; Muthusamy, Vinod; Reichert, Manfred; Rizk, Yara; Rosemann, Michael; Röglinger, Maximilian; Sadiq, Shazia; Seiger, Ronny; Slaats, Tijs; Simkus, Mantas; Someh, Ida Asadi; Weber, Barbara; Weber, Ingo; Weske, Mathias; Zerbato, Francesca
(2023) Computers in Industry, volume 146
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Abstract
It may be tempting for researchers to stick to incremental extensions of their current work to plan future research activities. Yet there is also merit in realizing the grand challenges in one's field. This paper presents an overview of the nine major research problems for the Business Process Management discipline.
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These challenges have been collected by an open call to the community, discussed and refined in a workshop setting, and described here in detail, including a motivation why these problems are worth investigating. This overview may serve the purpose of inspiring both novice and advanced scholars who are interested in the radical new ideas for the analysis, design, and management of work processes using information technology.
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Keywords: Business process management, Business process redesign, Digital twins, Grand challenges, Process mining, Process modeling, General Computer Science, General Engineering
ISSN: 0166-3615
Publisher: Elsevier
Note: Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s)
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