Aligning Business Processes and Information Systems: New Approaches to Continuous Quality Engineering

Author:   Robert Heinrich
Publisher:   Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Edition:   2014 ed.
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9783658065171


Pages:   233
Publication Date:   18 July 2014
Format:   Paperback
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Aligning Business Processes and Information Systems: New Approaches to Continuous Quality Engineering


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Business processes and information systems mutually affect each other in non-trivial ways. Frequently, processes are designed without taking the systems’ impact into account, and vice versa. Missing alignment at design-time results in quality problems at run-time. Robert Heinrich gives examples from research and practice for an integrated design of process and system quality. A quality reference-model characterizes process quality and a process notation is extended to operationalize the model. Simulation is a powerful means to predict the mutual quality impact, to compare design alternatives, and to verify them against requirements. The author describes two simulation approaches and discusses interesting insights on their application in practice.

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Author:   Robert Heinrich
Publisher:   Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Imprint:   Springer Vieweg
Edition:   2014 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   3.351kg
ISBN:  

9783658065171


ISBN 10:   3658065176
Pages:   233
Publication Date:   18 July 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction.- Business Process Quality.- Terms and Definitions.- Business Process Quality.- Quality Modeling within Business Process Models.- Aligning Business Process Design and Information System Design.- Foundations and Definitions.- The Order Picking Process and Involved Information System.- Mutual Performance Impact between Business Processes and Information Systems.- Predicting the Mutual Performance Impact between Business Processes and Information Systems.- Extending Palladio by Business Process Simulation Concepts to Enable an Integrated Simulation.- Validation.- Conclusion.- Summary and Future Work.

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Robert Heinrich is head of the Continuous Quality Engineering research group at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He is interested in quality modeling, analysis, and evolution of processes and systems, with a focus on industrial application. This was also the topic of his doctoral thesis created at University of Heidelberg.

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