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Application of Enterprise Engineering to Lean Process Management: An Explorative Case Study

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Advances in Enterprise Engineering XI (EEWC 2017)

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Since the publication of ‘The machine that changed the world’, lean has spread in academic and management literature. In this case we study the lean transition of one process in a Belgian financial institution by means of Enterprise Engineering (EE) concepts and methods. Enterprise Ontology (EO) and Normalized Systems (NS) are used. Additionally, Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is used to describe process implementations in more detail. In the case the role of each of these methods is discussed, as well as their weaknesses and advantages. However, it does not propose an explicit integration of different theories. Based on our results and in line with calls from previous research we highlight the contributions of EE tools for lean implementation.

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  1. Faculty of Applied Economics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

    Marjolein Deryck

  2. Antwerp Management School, Antwerp, Belgium

    Philip Huysmans

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  1. University of Madeira and Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Funchal, Portugal

    David Aveiro

  2. Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

    Robert Pergl

  3. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

    Giancarlo Guizzardi

  4. Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitoria, Brazil

    João Paulo Almeida

  5. Kuwait Maastricht Business School, Kuwait, Kuwait

    Rodrigo Magalhães

  6. Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Hans Lekkerkerk

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Deryck, M., Huysmans, P. (2017). Application of Enterprise Engineering to Lean Process Management: An Explorative Case Study. In: Aveiro, D., Pergl, R., Guizzardi, G., Almeida, J., Magalhães, R., Lekkerkerk, H. (eds) Advances in Enterprise Engineering XI. EEWC 2017. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 284. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57955-9_11

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