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Designing a Process

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This chapter addresses the requirements of a good process. Some of these requirements can be met through the right process design. This is where we enter the domain of negotiation architecture [22, 29]. The structure of the chapter is as follows. Section 3.2 will introduce the four main requirements of a process, or process agreements (we will refer to these as the core elements of a process design). A good process is:

  • an open process,

  • in which parties are offered security through protection of their core values,

  • which offers sufficient incentives for progress and momentum, and

  • which offers sufficient guarantees for the substantive quality of the results.

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de Bruijn, H., ten Heuvelhof, E.F., in ‘t Veld, R. (2010). Designing a Process. In: Process Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13941-3_3

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