Business Process Management Journal: Volume 16 Issue 4

Challenges in enterprise resource planning implementation: state‐of‐the‐art

A. Momoh, R. Roy, E. Shehab

The purpose of this paper is to present an integrative and detailed review of the critical factors that cause enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation failures, based on…

Business process research: a cross‐disciplinary review

Anna Sidorova, Oyku Isik

The paper aims to provide a comprehensive overview of business processes (BPs) literature by identifying and discussing key BP‐related research themes and suggesting directions…

Auditing improvements in a product delivery process (AIPDP)

Paul Childerhouse, Andrew Thomas, Gareth Phillips, Denis R. Towill

The purpose of this paper is to assess the appropriateness of using the 12 previously published material flow simplicity rules (SRs) to shape the successful design and…

Empirical research in business process management – analysis of an emerging field of research

Constantin Houy, Peter Fettke, Peter Loos

The paper aims at providing a survey of the development of empirical research in business process management (BPM). It seeks to study trends in empirical BPM research and applied…

Reflections on the modularity of business process models: The case for introducing the aspect‐oriented paradigm

Claudia Cappelli, Flávia Maria Santoro, Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prado Leite, Thais Batista, Ana Luisa Medeiros, Clarissa S.C. Romeiro

The aspect‐oriented (AO) paradigm is first proposed to deal with programing modularity issues, but different researchers have been exploring AO concepts in the designing and…

Proposal of data warehouse in the context of healthcare process reengineering

Sonia Ayachi Ghannouchi, Karim Mabrouk, Slah Ghannouchi

This paper aims to set out the relationship between business process reengineering (BPR) and data warehouse (DW) and identify the advantages brought by the integration of DW…

A structured language for manipulating process models

Henry H. Bi

Although software systems used to automate business processes have been becoming rather advanced, the existing practice of developing and modifying graphical process models in…

Delineating the ERP institutionalization process: go‐live to effectiveness

Bharat Maheshwari, Vinod Kumar, Uma Kumar

The institutionalization of an organizational innovation, such as an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, takes place as a continuous adaptation process that includes the…

The critical consequences of project drift – a case study in the UK banking sector

Julie Hedley, Udechukwu Ojiako, Eric Johansen, Stuart Maguire

The objective of this paper is to identify the change model being used by a UK bank to implement and embed a major regulatory‐driven initiative (the Basle Capital Accord) into it…