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Business Process Management Journal | 2009

Process‐centric business intelligence

Tobias Bucher; Anke Gericke; Stefan Sigg

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to deliver an insight into the interaction effects of process‐oriented management and business intelligence (BI).Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes up publications from the fields of BI and business process management and analyzes the state‐of‐the‐art of process‐centric business intelligence (PCBI). To highlight the potentials and limitations of the concept, two exemplary use cases are presented and discussed in depth. Furthermore, a vision for the technical implementation is sketched.Findings – PCBI is found to play an important role in an organizations strive for competitiveness. The concepts potential benefits are significant. However, the overall levels of adoption and maturity of the concept within real‐world organizations appear to be rather low at the moment.Research limitations/implications – The paper discusses solely two exemplary use cases – the most that could be done within the scope of a journal publication. Therefore, the explanatory power...


Archive | 2006

Business Performance Management

Barbara Dinter; Tobias Bucher

Business Performance Management (BPM) stellt einen umfassenden Ansatz zur Planung, Messung und Steuerung der Wertschopfung von Unternehmen dar. Durch die Einfuhrung von BPM-Losungen versprechen sich die Unternehmen vor allem verbesserte Unterstutzung der Entscheidungsfindung, hohere Effizienz des Berichtswesens und der Unternehmensplanung, bessere Ressourcenallokation, erhohte Auskunftsfahigkeit und Transparenz sowie bessere Vorhersagbarkeit von Aufwendungen. Die Nutzung aktueller Entwicklungen der Informationstechnologie, die Unterstutzungsprozesse und Systeme fur die Umsetzung und Operationalisierung des BPM liefert, stellt eine der wesentlichen Grundlagen fur das Business Performance Management dar: Ziele sind die unternehmensweite Vereinheitlichung von BPM-Initiativen, die Integration und Konsolidierung bestehender, haufig bereichsspezifischer Insellosungen, die systematische Ableitung und Definition von Kennzahlen sowie die Verknupfung von Strategie-, Prozess- und Systemebene zu einem geschlossenen Kreislauf fur Planung, Messung und Steuerung der Leistungserbringung.


Working Conference on Method Engineering | 2007

Situational Method Engineering

Tobias Bucher; Mario Klesse; Stephan Kurpjuweit; Robert Winter

Based on the experience that there cannot be a “one-size-fits-all” method, different situational method engineering approaches are examined in this paper. The result of the analysis shows that “situations” are conceptualized very imprecisely. Therefore, we propose to differentiate between “context” and “project type” in situational method engineering. Especially context is neglected in existing method engineering approaches. To close this gap, we enhance existing method engineering processes by adding three steps to facilitate the identification of context factors and project type factors, enabling the engineering of both contextual and project type-specific methods. Furthermore, we propose a set of extensions to the method engineering meta model that allow the method engineer to differentiate between “context” and “project type” in describing situational methods.


hawaii international conference on system sciences | 2008

Process Orientation of Information Logistics An Empirical Analysis to Assess Benefits, Design Factors, and Realization Approaches

Tobias Bucher; Barbara Dinter

Process-oriented information logistics is proposed as a new paradigm aimed at supporting and improving the execution of an organizations operational processes by embedding analytic information and/or analysis capabilities into the context of process execution. The paper describes empirical research providing substantial evidence that organizations can realize benefits by adopting the concept. It furthermore provides insight into the dominant design factors and distinct realization approaches of process-oriented information logistics. This kind of information is particularly useful for the engineering of situational methods aimed at the implementation and advancement of the concept within real-world organizations.


Archive | 2009

Systematisierung von Evaluationsmethoden in der gestaltungsorientierten Wirtschaftsinformatik

Christian Riege; Jan Saat; Tobias Bucher

Unter dem Oberbegriff der gestaltungsorientierten Wirtschaftsinformatik1 wird gegenwartig ein konsensfahiges Forschungsparadigma der Wirtschaftsinformatik diskutiert. Forschungsarbeiten, welche diesem Paradigma folgen, befassen sich vornehmlich mit der Konstruktion generischer Artefakte. Der hierfur notwendige Rahmen wird durch einen bestimmten Realweltausschnitt gebildet. Als eine notwendige Bedingung fur die Auswahl dieses Realweltausschnitts gilt dessen Problemcharakter. Die Orientierung hin zu einer Problemlosung stellt ein konstituierendes Merkmal der gestaltungsorientierten Wirtschaftsinformatik dar. Im Gegensatz dazu befasst sich die behavioristische Forschung hauptsachlich mit der Erklarung von beobachtbaren Phanomenen der Realwelt (March u. Smith 1995; Hevner et al. 2004; Cao et al. 2006).


Business Process Management Journal | 2009

Project types of business process management: Towards a scenario structure to enable situational method engineering for business process management

Tobias Bucher; Robert Winter

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore project types (PTs) of business process management (BPM). PTs are a key concept to describe development situations in situational method engineering (SME). SME acts on the assumption that generic methods need to be adapted to the specifics of the development situation in which they are to be applied.Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on results from an empirical analysis directed at the identification of design factors of and realization approaches to BPM. It extends an earlier study through the inclusion of new data points that allow for the derivation and characterization of PTs. To this end, multivariate data analysis techniques such as regression analysis, factor analysis, and cluster analysis are applied. Albeit inherently behavioral, the research described in the paper constitutes an important foundation for subsequent design research (DR) activities, in particular for the engineering of situational methods.Findings – The analysis suggests...


conference on advanced information systems engineering | 2009

Method versus Model - Two Sides of the Same Coin?

Robert Winter; Anke Gericke; Tobias Bucher

This article analyzes the state-of-the-art regarding the development of generic methods and reference models. The analysis shows that the related research disciplines, method engineering and reference modeling, tend to converge. Furthermore, it shows that the differentiation between generic methods and reference models should not be maintained because both artifact types feature activity-oriented elements as well as result-oriented elements. Depending on the artifact type, however, generic methods and reference models vary regarding the relative importance of the activity view and the result view. A generic problem solution (generic term for methods and reference models) can be interpreted as a sequence of activities which aim at the development of results. The insights into the commonalities among generic problem solutions provide the opportunity to define a unified design process in the field of design science research. Implications and unification challenges that are related to such a unified design process are presented at the end of the paper.


Archive | 2008

Das St. Galler Konzept der Informationslogistik

Robert Winter; Moritz Schmaltz; Barbara Dinter; Tobias Bucher

Viele Untersuchungen belegen den unverandert hohen Stellenwert von Business Intelligence und Data Warehousing im Unternehmen (z. B. Sommer 2007). Mittlerweile sind analytische Informationssysteme zum unverzichtbaren Bestandteil der Applikationslandschaft eines Unternehmens geworden und nehmen einen erheblichen Teil des IT-Budgets in Anspruch. Allerdings stellt sich heutzutage den Unternehmen nicht mehr primar das Problem des initialen Aufbaus analytischer Systeme; Vielmehr stehen Fragestellungen des Betriebs und der kontinuierlichen Weiterentwicklung analytischer Systeme angesichts sich andernder Rahmenbedingungen und Anforderungen im Vordergrund. Dabei werden aber nach wie vor zwei entscheidende Aspekte vernachlassigt: Zum einen fehlt die Betonung einer umfassenden Gesamtsicht auf alle Initiativen und Projekte in diesem Umfeld anstelle einer fokussierten Partikular- oder Projektsicht, zum anderen werden solche Vorhaben oft nicht mit dem dafur eigentlich notwendigen, langen Planungs- und Investitionshorizont betrachtet.


Journal of Database Management | 2012

Situational Method Engineering to Support Process-Oriented Information Logistics: Identification of Development Situations

Tobias Bucher; Barbara Dinter

Process-oriented information logistics is proposed as a novel concept aimed at supporting and improving the execution of an organizations operational processes by the embedding of analytic information and/or analysis capabilities into process execution. The article reports on findings of an exploratory study that is directed at identifying design factors and realization approaches of process-oriented information logistics. Based on this empirical analysis, so-called development situations are identified. They represent abstractions of situational characteristics that influence the applicability, effectiveness, and efficiency of an information systems development method. The development situations are systematized in a so-called context type vs. project type matrix. Insights into development situations of process-oriented information logistics are particularly useful for the engineering of situational methods aimed at the implementation and advancement of this concept.


Praxis Der Wirtschaftsinformatik | 2009

Geschäftsprozessmanagement — Einsatz, Weiterentwicklung und Anpassungsmöglichkeiten aus Methodiksicht

Tobias Bucher; Robert Winter

ZusammenfassungenUnternehmen setzen das Konzept des Geschäftsprozessmanagements (Business Process Management, BPM) in vollkommen unterschiedlicher Art und Weise um. Durch eine empirische Untersuchung wurden vier Einflussfaktoren identifiziert, auf deren Grundlage vier grundsätzlich unterschiedliche (Ist- )BPM-Ansätze unterschieden werden können. Wenn zusätzlich auch BPM-Weiterentwicklungspläne einbezogen werden, ergeben sich fünf dominierende BPM-Projekttypen. Anhand zweier Beispiele wird illustriert, wie die Unterscheidung von BPM-Ansätzen und - Projekttypen zur situationsspezifischen Fortentwicklung bestehender Referenzmodelle und Methoden im Bereich BPM eingesetzt werden können.

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Robert Winter

University of St. Gallen

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Barbara Dinter

University of St. Gallen

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Anke Gericke

University of St. Gallen

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Mario Klesse

University of St. Gallen

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Stephan Aier

University of St. Gallen

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Jan Saat

University of St. Gallen

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Ronny Fischer

University of St. Gallen

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