Business process industrialization adopts the principles of industrial manufacturing and applies them to the field of BPM. It aims to identify untapped potential regarding the automation, standardization, flexibility, and improvement of single business processes and of BPM as well as to realize the identified potential by harnessing modern information technology.

Selected topics:

• Internal and external drivers of service process flexibility

• Capacity management for information-intensive service processes

• Big data analytics and semantic technologies as enablers of business process industrialization

• Intelligent mechanisms for real-time process control

• Self-optimizing business processes

Selected Publications (see all FIM publications):

Katzmarzik, A.; Henneberger, M.; Buhl H.U. (2012): Interdependencies between Automation and Sourcing of Business Processes. In: Journal of Decision Systems, 21, 4, pp. 331-352.

Krause F.; Bewernik M.-A.; Fridgen G. (2012): Valuation of Manual and Automated Process Redesign from a Business Perspective. In: Business Process Management Journal, 19, 1.

Brugger, P.; Wagner, E.; Röglinger, M.; Walter, M.; Wiesent, J. (2012): Prozesskonfiguration mit ökonomischem Augenmaß – Ein Erfahrungsbericht aus der Bierbranche. In: Wirtschaftsinformatik & Management, 4, 3, pp. 60-64.

Röglinger, M.; Pöppelbuß, J.; Becker J. (2012) Maturity Models in Business Process Management. In: Business Process Management Journal, 18, 2, pp. 328-346.

Heidemann, J.; Kamprath, J.: Müller, A.-L. (2011): Kundenintegration in Geschäftsprozesse von Finanzdienstleistern. In: HMD - Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik.

Ullrich, Christian; Braunwarth K.S. (2010): Valuating Business Process Flexibility achieved through an alternative Execution Path. In: Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Information Systems, Pretoria, South Africa, June 2010.