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Extending Business Process Models with Appreciation

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We use homeostasis, the maintenance of steady states in an organism, to explain some of the decisions made by participants in a business process. We use Vickers’ Appreciative System to model the homeostatic states with Harel’s statecharts. We take the example of a doctoral student recruitment process formally defined between a faculty member, a graduate student candidate and a doctoral school. We analyze some gaps in the process caused by a misfit between norms of the process participants. We present a rationale for the anticipation and resolution of these misfits. We extend the traditional operational model with an appreciative model. This model represents the appreciative systems of process participants. Understanding these appreciative systems is necessary to make explicit the misfit between the model and the observed reality. The operational model represents the “technical” perspective on the business process, the one that can be automated. The appreciative model represents the “social” perspective, the one that explains the participants’ behavior as a result of their individual and collective norms. By combining these two perspectives, we can appreciate the richness of the development of socio-technical systems.

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Business process modeling
Business process modeling (BPM) in business process management and systems engineering is the activity of representing processes of an enterprise, so that the current business processes may be analyzed, improved, and automated. BPM is typically performed by business analysts, who provide expertise in the modeling discipline; by subject matter experts, who have specialized knowledge of the processes being modeled; or more commonly by a team comprising both. Alternatively, the process model can be derived directly from events' logs using process mining tools.
Business Process Management
Le Business Process Management (BPM), ou Gestion des Processus Métiers, permet d’avoir une vue d’ensemble de processus métiers de l’organisation et de leurs interactions pour les optimiser et les automatiser autant que possible. Pour ce faire, il faut analyser le fonctionnement réel de l'entreprise afin de le modéliser informatiquement, par exemple avec le formalisme BPMN et les outils associés. Dans une deuxième étape, les processus automatisés, même partiellement, font l'objet d'un monitoring (Cf.
Business process model and notation
Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN en anglais), c'est-à-dire « modèle de procédé d'affaire et notation », est une méthode de modélisation de processus d'affaires pour décrire les chaînes de valeur et les activités métier d'une organisation sous forme d'une représentation graphique. Elle constitue la norme internationale . BPMN a été développé au départ par la Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), et est maintenu par l'Object Management Group (OMG) depuis la fusion de ces deux Consortium en juin 2005.
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