Dieses Lehrbuch umfasst den gesamten Lebenszyklus des Geschäftsprozessmanagements (BPM), von der Prozessidentifikation bis zur Prozessüberwachung, und die entsprechenden Schritte der Erhebung, Analyse, Verbesserung und Implementierung von Prozesse. Dabei werden Konzepte, Methoden und Werkzeuge der Betriebswirtschaftslehre, der Informatik und der Ingenieurswissenschaften als Teil eines durchgängigen und interdisziplinären Ansatzes dargestellt. Die Darstellung illustriert die Nutzung der Bus...

Eine Einführung in ethische Kernthemen: elementar – fachlich fundiert – didaktisch erschlossen. Verfasst von den führenden evangelischen und katholischen Religionspädagoginnen und Religionspädagogen des deutschen Sprachraums. Ethische Kernthemen bilden den Inhalt des vierten, komplett neu erarbeiteten Bandes der bewährten Reihe "Theologie für Lehrerinnen und Lehrer". Die Autorinnen und Autoren erschließen anhand von 40 Begriffen zentrale Themenbereiche christlicher Ethik. Die Auswahl orien...

Eine Einführung in elementare Bibeltexte: subjektorientiert – biblisch-theologisch – didaktisch erschlossen. Verfasst von den führenden evangelischen und katholischen Religionspädagog:innen des deutschen Sprachraums. Elementare Bibeltexte bilden den Inhalt des zweiten, komplett neu erarbeiteten Bandes der bewährten Reihe "Theologie für Lehrerinnen und Lehrer". Die Autor:innen erschließen anhand von 37 Begriffen zentrale Inhalte der Bücher des Alten und Neuen Testaments. Die Auswahl orienti...

Business Process Management (BPM) is at a pivotal moment as new opportunities and demands emerge. On the one side, Artificial Intelligence and process mining facilitate entirely new process design and analysis options. On the other hand, organizations are tasked to ensure their business processes are also sustainable, responsible and explainable. In light of this fast moving context, insights into the actual practice of BPM have become indispensable points of reference.The BPM Case...

This book is a sequel and extension to the book “Business Process Management Cases", published in its first edition by Springer in 2018. It adds 22 new cases for practitioners and educators to showcase and study Business Process Management (BPM).The BPM cases collection is dedicated to providing a contemporary and comprehensive, industry-agnostic insight into the realities of BPM. In particular it focuses on the lessons that only authentic cases can provide. The experiences documen...

This Festschrift is dedicated to Wil van der Aalst, a leading pioneer in the disciplines of Business Process Management and Process Mining.Wil van der Aalst received an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. at Eindhoven University of Technology during the 1980s. Among other current roles he is a full professor at RWTH Aachen University, leading the Process and Data Science (PADS) group, and he is Chief Scientist at Celonis. His research interests include process mining, data science, Petri nets, proce...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of digital trace data research in information systems and reflects on its idiosyncrasies throughout all phases of a research project. It delivers important advice on how to construct, manage, and execute research with digital trace data, it clarifies the complex relationship of digital trace data to the reality it purportedly represents, it helps devising research programs that systematically explore key phenomena, and it assists in how to levera...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the CAiSE Forum 2018 held in Tallinn, Estonia, as part of the 30th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2018, in June 2018.The CAiSE Forum is a place within the CAiSE conference for presenting and discussing new ideas and tools related to information systems engineering. Intended to serve as an interactive platform, the Forum aims at the presentation of emerging new topics and contro...

This book is the first to present a rich selection of over 30 real-world cases of how leading organizations conduct Business Process Management (BPM). The cases stem from a diverse set of industry sectors and countries on different continents, reporting on best practices and lessons learned. The book showcases how BPM can contribute to both exploitation and exploration in a digital world. All cases are presented using a uniform structure in order to provide valuable insights and essential ...

A superb collection of contemporary research on German-language religious education. Professor Julian Stern, Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, UK Although specific contexts differ between and within countries, the issues and challenges regarding religious education in schools are essentially the same worldwide. It is therefore very valuable and relevant that this volume makes the rich insights and approaches to religious education developed and brought together by German scholars ava...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2019, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2019.The 23 full and 4 tutorial short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 115 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: foundations; engineering; and management.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Blockchain and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Forum which was held as part of the 18th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2020. The conference was planned to take place in Seville, Spain, in September 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference took place virtually.The Blockchain Forum and the RPA Forum have in common that they are centered around an emerging and exciting technology. The blockchain is a ...