The phenomenon of business process management : practitioners’ emphasis


Autoria(s): Reiter, Sebastian; Stewart, Glenn; Bruce, Christine S.; Bandara, Wasana; Rosemann, Michael
Data(s)

2010

Resumo

Since 2005, Business Process Management (BPM) has been one of the top 10 issues for CIO’s. However, while there is a general awareness what BPM is and what it relates to, one needs to ask ‘does everyone have the same understanding of the BPM phenomenon? And if not, is there a pattern to these conceptions and how do the ways of conceptualizing BPM differ?’ This paper presents the practitioner conceptions of BPM using a phenomenographic approach to detect variations in the BPM conceptions emphasised. 26 interviews were conducted with BPM practitioners with various scopes of work (namely program management, project management and execution levels) in this qualitative research. Distinct variations in how BPM is conceptualized among BPM practitioners are revealed, showing that emphasis is put depending on their scope of work either towards value generation, improvement or managing processes. This is of particular relevance to the Information Systems and BPM community in order to align the rigorous work done to date by the research community with the current understanding of BPM in the practitioner community.

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Identificador

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/40949/

Relação

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/40949/1/Reiter%2C_S.%2C_et_al._%282010%29._The_Phenomenon_of_Business_Process_Management_-_Practitioners%27_Emphasis_Research_Paper_presented_at_the_18th_European_Conference_on_Information_Systems_.pdf

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Reiter, Sebastian, Stewart, Glenn, Bruce, Christine S., Bandara, Wasana, & Rosemann, Michael (2010) The phenomenon of business process management : practitioners’ emphasis. In Proceedings of 18th European Conference on Information Systems, Pretoria, South Africa.

Direitos

Copyright 2010 [please consult the authors]

Fonte

Faculty of Science and Technology; Information Systems

Palavras-Chave #080600 INFORMATION SYSTEMS #Business Process Management #phenomenographic approach
Tipo

Conference Paper