TY - GEN
T1 - Unraveling the Never-Ending Story of Lifecycles and Vitalizing Processes
AU - Fahrenkrog-Petersen, Stephan A.
AU - Bala, Saimir
AU - Pufahl, Luise
AU - Mendling, Jan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - Business process management (BPM) has been widely used to discover, model, analyze, and optimize organizational processes. BPM looks at these processes with analysis techniques that assume a clearly defined start and end. However, not all processes adhere to this logic, with the consequence that their behavior cannot be appropriately captured by BPM analysis techniques. This paper addresses this research problem at a conceptual level. More specifically, we introduce the notion of vitalizing business processes that target the lifecycle process of one or more entities. We show the existence of lifecycle processes in many industries and that their appropriate conceptualizations pave the way for the definition of suitable modeling and analysis techniques. This paper provides a set of requirements for their analysis, and a conceptualization of lifecycle and vitalizing processes.
AB - Business process management (BPM) has been widely used to discover, model, analyze, and optimize organizational processes. BPM looks at these processes with analysis techniques that assume a clearly defined start and end. However, not all processes adhere to this logic, with the consequence that their behavior cannot be appropriately captured by BPM analysis techniques. This paper addresses this research problem at a conceptual level. More specifically, we introduce the notion of vitalizing business processes that target the lifecycle process of one or more entities. We show the existence of lifecycle processes in many industries and that their appropriate conceptualizations pave the way for the definition of suitable modeling and analysis techniques. This paper provides a set of requirements for their analysis, and a conceptualization of lifecycle and vitalizing processes.
KW - Business Process Management
KW - Lifecycle
KW - Process Analysis
KW - Process Models
KW - Types of Processes
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85219194166&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-79059-1_5
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-79059-1_5
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85219194166
SN - 9783031790584
T3 - Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
SP - 68
EP - 81
BT - Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing. EDOC 2024 Workshops - iRESEARCH, MIDas4CS, Doctoral Consortium, Joint CBI–EDOC Forum and Other Joint CBI-EDOC Events, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Kaczmarek-Heß, Monika
A2 - Rosenthal, Kristina
A2 - Suchánek, Marek
A2 - Da Silva, Miguel Mira
A2 - Proper, Henderik A.
A2 - Schnellmann, Marianne
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 2nd International Workshop on Empirical Methodologies for Research in Enterprise Architecture and Service-oriented Computing, iRESEARCH 2024, 2nd Workshop on the Modelling and Implementation of Digital Twins for Complex Systems, MIDas4CS 2024, Doctoral Consortium, Joint CBI-EDOC Forum and Other Joint CBI-EDOC Events, held in conjunction with 28th International Conference on Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing, EDOC 2024
Y2 - 10 September 2024 through 13 September 2024
ER -