▶Business Enterprise, Process and Technology Management: Models for Optimization◀

..................................CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS..........................................

* Proposal Submission Deadline: July 31, 2010

* A book edited by Dr. Venky Shankararaman*, Dr. J. Leon Zhao** and Dr. Jae Kyu Lee***

* Associate Professor of Information Systems (Practice), Singapore Management University, Singapore

**Head and Chair Professor Department of Information Systems City University of Hong Kong Kowloon, Hong Kong

***Professor of Business, College of Business, KAIST, Seoul, Korea

To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com

*Introduction

Business processes are valuable corporate assets since they directly support corporate business strategies. Business processes, therefore, need to be managed and optimized just as any other business assets. This need has lead to significant advances in the area of Business Process Management (BPM). BPM focuses on the analysis of chains of activities involved in business processes and aims for increased reliability, flexibility and transparency in the management of business processes. Organizations need to manage processes at three levels, Enterprise, Process, and Technology.

At the Enterprise level, the concern is on the overall composition of the various business processes in the organization. For example:

· What are the different processes that are required to achieve the business strategies?

· How are these processes interrelated?



At the Process level, the concern is on each individual process in an organization. For example:

· How can a process be modelled so that both business and IT can understand the process description and flow?

· How can a process be optimized to reduce turnaround time from four days to two days?

· What will be the impact on the process should the number of human resources be reduced by 5%?

At the Technology level, the concern is on the technologies that enable the automation of business processes. For example:

· How can applications be integrated to support process automation?

· How to monitor process events of significance to the organization?

This edited book will strive to generate a comprehensive overview of the recent advances in concepts, technologies, and applications that enable advanced business process management in various enterprises.

*Objective of the Book

To highlight the importance of business process management and its relevance to other topics such as workflow, service-oriented architecture, etc.
To provide readers with a comprehensive survey of recent advances and the key concepts, technologies and applications in the area of business process management.
To present case studies that illustrates best practices and highlight pitfalls.

Target Audience

The potential readers of the volume include instructors, researchers, managers, consultants, and students who are engaged in the research, development, application, and teaching of business process technologies and applications. This book can be used by both professionals and academics since it will have contributions from both practitioners and researchers. Additionally, it can be used as a reference when teaching, training or conducting workshops. The book will have a few chapters that present case studies that will help disseminate best practices and lessons learned.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

· Recent advances in workflow technologies

· BPM and service-oriented computing

· Time-based process modeling

· Event-based process modeling

· Unstructured process modeling

· Verification of business process models

· Agile workflow systems

· Knowledge workflow systems

· Scientific workflow systems

· Workflow-based application integration

· Business process innovation

· Business process architecture

· Business process optimization

· Business process services

· Business process driven systems analysis

· Business process exception handling

· Business process monitoring

· Business processes and collaboration technologies

· Business process governance

· Business process compliance

· Application of service-oriented architecture

· Application of scientific workflows

· Application of grid workflows

· Application of knowledge workflows

* Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before July 31, 2010, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by August 31, 2010 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by November 15, 2010. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

* Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference” and “IGI Publishing” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2011.

** Important Dates**

July 31, 2010: Proposal Submission Deadline

August 31, 2010: Notification of Acceptance

November 15, 2010: Full Chapter Submission

December 15, 2010: Review Results Returned

February 15, 2011: Final Chapter Submission

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (doc or pdf) to:

Dr. Venky Shankararaman

Associate Professor of Information Systems (Practice), Singapore Management University, Singapore

E-mail: venky@smu.edu.sg