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Enterprise Process Modeling in Practice – Experiences from a Case Study in the Healthcare Sector

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Abstract

In enterprise modeling it is customary to differentiate between the current, as-is situation and the future to-be situation and develop models of these to plan for how to fill the gap. In practice you are never able to implement the ideal to-be model, each to-be will be incremental steps on the way to a future best practice. So it will be useful to also maintain a separate ought-to-be model, to not forget the situation you strive for. A distinction between the ought-to-be, as-is, and the to-be model is necessary, and we have in this paper provided the basis for an approach for combining top-down ought-to-be and bottom-up as-is and to-be modelling to support the dynamic interplay between these models. The approach is illustrated through a practical application in the healthcare sector. The main results is that it is found beneficial to represent the to-be and ought-to-be models separately, to be able to discuss the long-term goals without being hampered by short-term technical and organizational limitations, but still have support for developing the next version of the organization.

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    Snorre Fossland

  2. NTNU, Trondheim, Norway

    John Krogstie

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  1. Munich University of Applied Scienc, Munich, Germany

    Rainer Schmidt

  2. Luxembourg Inst. of Science & Technology, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

    Wided Guédria

  3. Dept. of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

    Ilia Bider

  4. Univ. Lusófona de Humanidades e Techn., Lisboa, Portugal

    Sérgio Guerreiro

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Fossland, S., Krogstie, J. (2016). Enterprise Process Modeling in Practice – Experiences from a Case Study in the Healthcare Sector. In: Schmidt, R., Guédria, W., Bider, I., Guerreiro, S. (eds) Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2016 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 248. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39429-9_23

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