Combining BPM and social software: contradiction or chance?

  • Authors:
  • Selim Erol;Michael Granitzer;Simone Happ;Sami Jantunen;Ben Jennings;Paul Johannesson;Agnes Koschmider;Selmin Nurcan;Davide Rossi;Rainer Schmidt

  • Affiliations:
  • Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria;Know-Center Graz, Austria;T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH, Dresden, Germany;Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland;University College London, London, U.K.;Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, SU-KTH, Stockholm, Sweden;Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany;CRI, University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France and IAE de Paris, Sorbonne Graduate Business School, France;Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione Università di Bologna, Italy;HTW-Aalen, Anton-Huber-Str. 25, 73430 Aalen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice - Best papers from the BPM 2008 Workshops
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Social software has received much attention in the academia and industry due to many success stories. However, although social software is used widely for business support, its relationship with Business Process Management has not been analysed. The results of the workshop on Business Process Management and Social Software (BPMS2'08), as part of the International Conference on Business Process Management in Milano, show the manifold possibilities of combining concepts from Business Process Management and social software. Social software provides a better integration of all stakeholders into the business process life cycle and offers new possibilities for a more effective and flexible design of business processes. The modelling of business processes may profit particularly from using social software techniques by alleviating the integration of process knowledge from all stakeholders. In addition, the implementation and deployment phase of the business process life cycle may profit from social software by collecting valuable information for continuous process improvement from a larger set of sources than before. Furthermore, social software environments may be used to provide workflow support. Moreover, the use of social software also requires new considerations about the digital identity and reputation in business processes. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Social software provides a better integration of all stakeholders into the business process lifecycle and offers new possibilities for a more effective and flexible design of business processes. The modelling of business processes may profit particularly from using social software techniques by alleviating the integration of process knowledge from all stakeholders. Also the implementation and deployment phase of the business process lifecycle may profit from social software by collecting valuable information for continuous process improvement from a larger set of sources than before. Furthermore, social software environments may be used to provide workflow support. Furthermore, the use of social software also requires new considerations about digital identity and reputation in business processes. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.