This article maintains that a strong sense of ethics and ethical awareness is essential to help promote and cultivate adequate and appropriate (human sensitive) approaches during the development, implementation and execution of business processes. Businesses and their corresponding processes,...

Background: Hospitals should monitor the costs of all direct and indirect processes in order to achieve efficiency and safeguard financial sustainability. One neglected process with significant costs is the processing of reusable medical devices and their packaging performed in the central...

A top-priority task of EU structural policy is to ensure a stability and a dynamic development of regions. This can be ensured within a purposeful combination of regional development potential with financial means in frame of subsidiary measures. The contribution is focused on following problem...

The paper presents a model of an integration system for operations and cost data designed for the needs of process controlling in agricultural enterprises, with special emphasis on logistics processes. The proposed model constituted the basis for the development of an IT tool to be used in the...

Support of processes by appropriate Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is a key requisite to persist in an environment characterised by high specialisation and cooperative service production – also in the public sector. This paper describes a method for pattern-based semantic...