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Clinical pathways describe treatment processes within a hospital. They can be used as process models, which can be controlled by implemented workflow models in information systems. This enables (semi-) automated processes, and they are therefore high potential for an improved quality management...

This paper presents a research project called “GENIE”. It aims at developing a concept for integratingexternal stakeholders into a company’s innovation management through a virtual community. This novelinstrument for opening up a company’s innovation process towards external stakeholders...

Decision making in process-aware information systems involves build-time and run-time decisions. At build-time, idealized process models are designed based on the organization's objectives, infrastructure, context, constraints, etc. At run-time, this idealized view is often broken. In...

The automated enactment of processes through the use of workflow management systems enables the outsouring of the control flow from application systems. By now a large number of systems, that follow different workflow paradigms, are available. This leads to the problem of selecting the...

This paper presents ways for senior researchers to help future doctoral students in Operations Management (OM) to overcome multiple challenges in: (a) conducting relevant research while demonstrating greater rigor, and (b) exploring multi-disciplinary research projects while mastering a single...

Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is the cutting-edge trend in contemporary business. It is a tool, a method or practice to attain radical improvement in various dynamic environments. The main aim of development of this scale “BPR Application Scale (BPRAS)” was to study about the...