This open access book presents an overview and step-by-step explanation of process management. It starts with the individual participants’ perspectives on their work in a process and its structuring and harmonization, and then moves on to its specification in a model and how it is embedded in the organizational and IT environment of the company. Lastly, the book examines the joint processing of instances in the resulting socio-technical systems. A corresponding illustration, which expands ...

S-BPMstands for “subject-oriented business process management” and focuses on subjects that represent the entities (people, programs etc.) that are actively engaged in processes. S-BPMhas become one of the most widely discussed approaches for process professionals. Its potential particularly lies in the integration of advanced information technology with organizational and managerial methods to foster and leverage business innovation, operational excellence and intra- and inter-organizatio...

Activities performed in organizations are coordinated via communicationbetween the people involved. The sentences used to communicate are naturally structured by subject, verb, and object. The subject describes the actor, the verb the action and the object what is affected by the action. Subject-oriented Business Process Management (S-BPM) as presented in this book is based on this simple structure which enables process-oriented thinking and process modeling.S-BPM puts the ...

This is the first book to present field studies on the application of subject-oriented business process management (S-BPM). Each case presents a specific story and focuses on an essential modeling or implementation issue, and most end with implications or suggestions for further studies. Significant variables and success factors are identified that were discovered during the respective study and lead to suggesting S-BPM novelties. For each case, the authors explain step-by-step how the sto...

In this open-access monograph, Paul Weller explores how the movement known as Hizmet (meaning “service”) is undergoing a period of transitions in Europe. Inspired by the teaching and practice of the Turkish Islamic scholar, Fethullah Gülen, Hizmet has been active in Europe (and other continents) for several decades. It has always been subject to some degree of contestation, which has intensified following the July 2016 coup attempt in Turkey, for which the current Turkish government holds ...

This OA book provides a comparative study of housing contention in Budapest and Bucharest in 2008-2021. The financialization of housing and the resulting inequalities, expulsions and social contention are a central characteristic of today’s capitalist crisis. These two East European cities that fall outside the usual focus of urban movements research provide an illuminating case of similar structural conditions governed by different political constellations at the national and local scales...

This Open Access book explores questions such as why and how did the first biological cells appear? And then complex organisms, brains, societies and –now– connected human societies? Physicists have good models for describing the evolution of the universe since the Big Bang, but can we apply the same concepts to the evolution of aggregated matter –living matter included? The Amazing Journey analyzes the latest results in chemistry, biology, neuroscience, anthropology and sociology...

This open access book provides an exploration of the consequences of the ontological differences between natural and social objects (sometimes described as objects of nature and objects of thought) in the workings of causal and agency relationships. One of its important and possibly original conclusions is that causal and agency relationships do not encompass all of the dependent relationships encountered in social life. The idea that social reality is contingent has been known (and largel...

Set in the near future the world as we know it has turned toxic. Global warming has left the majority of the planet uninhabitable. Skyscraper cities form the last strongholds against the fast-growing deserts that have taken over the globe. The survival of humankind is challenged by diseases, water shortages and food scarcity. In one of the massive battery farms that grow food for the living, Rosa has spent more than a decade in forced labor. Confronted with the reality of her body's purpos...

In this second edition of a bestselling book, the authors’ unique, holistic and radical perspective on participatory practice has been updated to reflect advances made in the past decade, the impact of neoliberalism and austerity, and the challenges of climate change and the pandemic.Bridging the divide between community development ideas and practice, over half of this innovative book comprises new content with updated features including:• reflective questions• key...

This is not a 1000-page encyclopedia filled with obscure configuration items that you will never use -- this book shows you what people actually do in the SAP system, and how to do it better. Michael Martinez will help you understand the documentflow and the business process steps you need to work in the exciting area of SAP.SAPCOOKBOOK Training Tutorials are the fastest way to learn SAP, period.

With enhancement package 6, SAP has done some renovation work to a number of CO planning functions as well as master data maintenance. These functions are accessible via the NetWeaver Business Client as well of the Analysis Client which virtually provides a means of uploading plan data from Excel. The following transactions are affected by the renovation:- Primary cost planning for cost centers and projects- Overall cost planning- Activity planning- Master d...