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Structuring What You Are Doing: 20 Years of Business Process Modelling

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The authors look back on 20+ years of business process modelling (BPM) which is a core pillar of business operations today. The journey starts from a volume of collected papers which Jörg Becker and the first author jointly edited in 1996 and which was cited by Jens Lechtenbörger in his 1997 diploma thesis, and takes the reader to Nicolas Pflanzl’s dissertation in 2017, who studied the use of gamification to support BPM and which was co-supervised by one of Jörg Becker’s academic offsprings. The discussion sketches notations and methods which the 1996 volume already mentioned and which are still current today (e.g., EPCs and Petri nets), but also more recent developments (such as BPMN). In the context of Petri nets the authors elaborate on the Horus method, an approach for structuring and analysing the operations of an enterprise based on simple, yet formally precise computer science methods.

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    The Horus® Method is a product of Horus software GmbH, Ettlingen, Germany.

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  1. University of Münster, Münster, Germany

    Gottfried Vossen & Jens Lechtenbörger

  2. University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Gottfried Vossen

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  1. Department of Information Systems, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

    Katrin Bergener

  2. Department of Information Systems, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

    Michael Räckers

  3. Department of Information Systems, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

    Armin Stein

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Vossen, G., Lechtenbörger, J. (2019). Structuring What You Are Doing: 20 Years of Business Process Modelling. In: Bergener, K., Räckers, M., Stein, A. (eds) The Art of Structuring. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06234-7_22

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