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Contextual Process Digitalization

Changing Perspectives – Design Thinking – Value-Led Design

  • Presents an overview of process management, explaining it step by step, and highlighting the role of all stakeholders in the process
  • Introduces a selection of models that have proved useful in practice to discover, create, and implement real-world processes
  • Discusses the transition from a more-or-less unstructured or unsatisfactory way of working to a structured process that corresponds to the ideas of a company and its customers

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Motivation

    • Albert Fleischmann, Stefan Oppl, Werner Schmidt, Christian Stary
    Pages 1-21Open Access
  3. Models

    • Albert Fleischmann, Stefan Oppl, Werner Schmidt, Christian Stary
    Pages 23-68Open Access
  4. Modeling Languages

    • Albert Fleischmann, Stefan Oppl, Werner Schmidt, Christian Stary
    Pages 69-128Open Access
  5. Contemporary Challenges in Business Process Modeling / Management

    • Albert Fleischmann, Stefan Oppl, Werner Schmidt, Christian Stary
    Pages 129-150Open Access
  6. From Modeling To Digitalization

    • Albert Fleischmann, Stefan Oppl, Werner Schmidt, Christian Stary
    Pages 151-177Open Access
  7. Preparation of Process Implementation

    • Albert Fleischmann, Stefan Oppl, Werner Schmidt, Christian Stary
    Pages 179-221Open Access
  8. Realization

    • Albert Fleischmann, Stefan Oppl, Werner Schmidt, Christian Stary
    Pages 223-252Open Access
  9. Industrial Use Case

    • Albert Fleischmann, Stefan Oppl, Werner Schmidt, Christian Stary
    Pages 253-272Open Access
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 273-275

About this book

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 with the overview, enables readers to gain a comprehensive understanding of business process management.


The book presents various facets of business process management from the perspective of the participants, and introduces a selection of models that have proved useful in practice. The design of such models supports the transition from a more-or-less unstructured or unsatisfactory way of working to a structured process that corresponds to the ideas of the company and its customers. The book is intended for professionals in industry as well as students in the field of business information systems who are looking for guidelines on how to discover, create and implement real-world processes.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dr. Albert Fleischmann & Partner, InterAktiv Unternehmensberatung, Pfaffenhofen a.d.Ilm, Germany

    Albert Fleischmann

  • Department for Continuing Education Research and Educational Technologies, Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria

    Stefan Oppl

  • Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Business School, Ingolstadt, Germany

    Werner Schmidt

  • Department of Business Informatics-Communications Engineering, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria

    Christian Stary

About the authors

Albert Fleischmann is the founder of S-BPM methodology, and a consultant and academic lecturer. He has received several awards from industry for his innovative achievements in the field of distributed systems.


Stefan Oppl is a Professor for Technology-Enhanced Learning at Danube-University Krems. His research focuses on the development and evaluation of instruments for work process articulation and design.


Werner Schmidt is a Professor at the Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt’s Business School. He is the leader of several BPM innovation projects, and the Executive Committee Chair of i2pm.net.


Christian Stary is a Professor of Business Information Systems at the University of Linz. He is also a scientific advisor and developer for S-BPM, and a principal investigator of international academic and industry S-BPM projects.

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Softcover Book USD 59.99
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Hardcover Book USD 59.99
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