Background: Business process compliance management has recently attracted a lot of attention in both business and academia as it enables organizations to not only control and monitor their business processes from a legal point of view but also to avoid financial penalties and undesirable consequences to their reputation. Objective: This thesis aims to provide a framework that would enable organizations to: 1- Discover business processes that violate regulations, laws and policies; 2- Discover the importance level of business processes based on the organization’s goals; 3- Determine the impact of compliance-related process modifications on business goals, including conflicting goals between stakeholders, and on policies; and 4- Enable organizations to measure the level of business process compliance for one or multiple policies. Methodology: A systematic literature review in the area of goal-oriented business process compliance management and measurement has been conducted, which showed that balancing legal compliance obligations with business objectives remains a difficult challenge. A new Indicator-based Policy Compliance Framework (IPCF), which combines policy and rule models together with models capturing business goals (with their relative importance to the organization) and business processes, has been proposed. This framework builds on the User Requirements Notation (URN), which is the first international standard to combine goal modeling with scenario modeling. The intents and objectives of policies have been modeled, as well as the goals and business processes of organizations, and indicators are used to measure the compliance level of policies. This enables the detection of non-compliant business processes and the evaluation of the impact of compliance-related process modifications on business goals. Human resource policies and business processes are used as an example to illustrate the method. Aerodrome security regulations and business processes are then used to validate the method in a real-life environment. Comparisons to related work, evaluation against different sets of criteria, and tool support complement the framework validation. Results: The Indicator-based Policy Compliance Framework enables organizations to discover business processes that violate policies as well as other types of rules, regulations, and laws. Guidelines for modeling legal text with URN’s Goal-oriented Requirement Language (GRL) are proposed. Furthermore, IPCF helps determine the impact of compliance-related process modifications on business goals, including conflicting goals between stakeholders, and on policies. In addition, as policies sometimes apply differently to different types of organizations, a new profile for GRL, with suitable stereotypes, well-formedness constraints, and a modified analysis algorithm defined for GRL model families is used to evaluate the satisfaction level of individual goal models that are members of a larger family model. Finally, the proposed IPCF enables organizations to measure the level of business process compliance for one or multiple policies, and such measures can be visualized directly in URN models but also through interactive Business Intelligence portals, for a wider diffusion.

El objetivo principal perseguido en esta tesis consiste en proponer un catálogo de refactorings para mejorar aspectos como usabilidad, eficiencia y eficacia de los procesos de negocio de las aplicaciones web. Mientras otras publicaciones identifican posibilidades de mejorías en los modelos de las aplicaciones web, esta tesis se focaliza en identificar problemas relacionados exclusivamente con la ejecución de los procesos de negocio y sugerir cambios para optimizar la experiencia del usuario mientras este navega por los procesos embebidos en las aplicaciones. / With time, web applications changed and evolved from simple websites to complex applications that allow users to perform a wide variety of tasks and operations online. All this progress is possible due to the fact that, nowadays, web applications support Business Processes. The integration of business processes and the associated increase in complexity of web applications generally lead to underestimate its usability which affects directly the users who have to execute these business processes daily. Focused in improve the execution and the usability of business processes, a catalog of refactorings was created with suggestions of changes classified by the affected web application model. The proposed refactorings aim to improve the user experience while executing these business processes embeded in most of web application and consequently its usability.

Darbo tikslas: Atskleisti „N„ organizacijos veiklos kokybės tobulinimo galimybes optimizuojant įstaigos procesus. Tyrimo uždaviniai: 1. Išskirti N organizacijoje vykstančius veiklos procesus. 2. Įvertinti organizacijoje vykstančius veiklos procesus pacientų ir darbuotojų požiūriu. 3. Nustatyti procesų tobulinimo galimybes. Tyrimo metodika. Tyrimas vykdytas 2014 metais Kėdainių PSPC. Pacientų ir sveikatos priežiūros specialistų nuomonių apklausai pasirinktas anoniminis anketinis apklausos metodas. Pacientams išdalinta 700 anketų, teisingai užpildytos ir grąžintos toliau analizei naudojamos 650 anketos. Atsako dažnis 92,8 %. Darbuotojams išdalintos 85 anketos, teisingai užpildytos ir grąžintos 75 anketos. Atsako dažnis 88,2 %. Rezultatai. Nuolatinis veiklos procesų tobulinimas sveikatos priežiūros įstaigų veiklų vertinime atspindi kaip kokybiškų paslaugų teikimą, pacientų lūkesčių ir poreikių patenkinimą. Tyrimo rezultatai parodė, kad pacientai 94,77 % ir darbuotojai 89,33 % sutinka, kad įstaigoje teikiamos paslaugos kokybiškos ir aukštą bendrą gydymo ir paslaugų kokybę vertina 95,4 % pacientų ir 97,3 % darbuotojų. Savo šeimos gydytoją pažystamiems rekomenduotų 88,2 % pacientų ir 92,0 % darbuotojų, įstaigą rekomenduotų - 92,0 % pacientų ir 96,0 % darbuotojų. Statistiškai reikšmingų skirtumų nenustatyta tarp pacientų 93,23 %, ir darbuotojų 93,33 % vertinant nuomonę apie registratorės suteiktą informaciją. Ir pacientai 69,38 % ir darbuotojai 92,0 % teigiamai vertina pateikiamą... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The objective: To show quality improvement opportunities of ,,N“ organization for optimizing the institution‘s processes. The research objectives: 1. To distinguish business processes occurring in organization „N“. 2. Evaluate business processes in terms of patients and staff in their organizations. 3. Identify process improvement opportunities. Methods of research: The research was carried out in primary health care center of Kėdainiai 2014. For the survey of the opinion of patients and health care professional’s anonymous questionnaire survey method was selected. 700 questionnaires were distributed to patients, 650 of which were correctly filled in and returned to continue the analysis. The response rate was 92.8 %. 85 questionnaires were distributed for workers, 65 of which were correctly filled. The response rate was 88.2 %. Results: Continuous business process improvement in activities reflects the quality of service delivery, patient’s expectations and satisfaction. The results showed that patients 94.77 % and employees 89.33 % agree that services provided are high-quality; 95.4 % of patients and 97.3 % of employess value treatment as high level and services as high quality. 88.2 % of patients and 92.0 % of employees would recommend their family doctor to their acquaintances 92.0 % of patients and 96.0 % employees would recommend institution to others. There were no statistically significant differences between patients 93.23 % and employees 93.33 % when assessing... [to full text]

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Background: Business process compliance management has recently attracted a lot of attention in both business and academia as it enables organizations to not only control and monitor their business processes from a legal point of view but also to avoid financial penalties and undesirable consequences to their reputation. Objective: This thesis aims to provide a framework that would enable organizations to: 1- Discover business processes that violate regulations, laws and policies; 2- Discover the importance level of business processes based on the organization’s goals; 3- Determine the impact of compliance-related process modifications on business goals, including conflicting goals between stakeholders, and on policies; and 4- Enable organizations to measure the level of business process compliance for one or multiple policies. Methodology: A systematic literature review in the area of goal-oriented business process compliance management and measurement has been conducted, which showed that balancing legal compliance obligations with business objectives remains a difficult challenge. A new Indicator-based Policy Compliance Framework (IPCF), which combines policy and rule models together with models capturing business goals (with their relative importance to the organization) and business processes, has been proposed. This framework builds on the User Requirements Notation (URN), which is the first international standard to combine goal modeling with scenario modeling. The intents and objectives of policies have been modeled, as well as the goals and business processes of organizations, and indicators are used to measure the compliance level of policies. This enables the detection of non-compliant business processes and the evaluation of the impact of compliance-related process modifications on business goals. Human resource policies and business processes are used as an example to illustrate the method. Aerodrome security regulations and business processes are then used to validate the method in a real-life environment. Comparisons to related work, evaluation against different sets of criteria, and tool support complement the framework validation. Results: The Indicator-based Policy Compliance Framework enables organizations to discover business processes that violate policies as well as other types of rules, regulations, and laws. Guidelines for modeling legal text with URN’s Goal-oriented Requirement Language (GRL) are proposed. Furthermore, IPCF helps determine the impact of compliance-related process modifications on business goals, including conflicting goals between stakeholders, and on policies. In addition, as policies sometimes apply differently to different types of organizations, a new profile for GRL, with suitable stereotypes, well-formedness constraints, and a modified analysis algorithm defined for GRL model families is used to evaluate the satisfaction level of individual goal models that are members of a larger family model. Finally, the proposed IPCF enables organizations to measure the level of business process compliance for one or multiple policies, and such measures can be visualized directly in URN models but also through interactive Business Intelligence portals, for a wider diffusion.

The thesis focuses on methodology of information system implementation in a small company. The aim of this thesis is to develop methodology for implementation of information system that will be used by consultants of Iteron company. Implementation of business information system is a very complicated project. According to research, 60-80% of projects fail. In theoretical part, key success factors for implementation are identified. Existing methodologies from business cases and methodologies of established IS vendors are examined next. Theoretical part ends with description of necessary methods of project management and business analysis. Paper terminates with resulting methodology for implementa-tion for use in our company.

The subject of the master thesis Process driven organization is using UML language and BPMN methodology to model business processes of the selected organization, followed by using obtained diagrams organization for upgrade any of modeled diagram existing business processes leading to prosperity of the selected organization.

The subject of my thesis is the optimization of selected business processes in the specific company. These are processes, which optimization will lead to save time, money and will generate additional income and increase the current level of profit significantly. In my thesis, I proposed several indicators of metrics and describe new information systems that will be part of optimized processes. In the first part I present the theoretical aspects and the transition from functional to process management, modeling based on different methodologies, standards and measuring the performance of individual processes. In the next chapter I am dealing with the practical application of theoretical knowledge on a specific company. First I briefly introduce this company, define its position in the market, and going through complex of strategic analysis. Next I give solution how to find out the problematic aspects of the most critical processes and then I suggest optimization. An important part of this thesis are suggested metrics and indicators for these metrics, which are monitored and evaluate targets of each individual process and thus his successful implementation. After incorporating the proposed optimization, the company has significantly shifted not only in monitored metrics, but will also increase its value. These ideas I will summarize in the end of the work.

The thesis focuses on the selection process and the implementation of the new information system (hereinafter "IS") in a manufacturing company. This is achieved by detailing characteristics of all individual phases and steps of the selection and implementation processes in the context of one appointed company. The characteristics analysis identifies key factors which need to be managed well by the company in order to accomplish a desired outcome. The thesis also includes a generic and coherent framework and it concludes with a comprehensive proposal which can be used as a tool for a successful selection and implementation of the new IS.

The aim of this thesis is to assess the information system and its modification. The base for processing the analytical and design part is theoretical root of the problem. Methods used in the analysis are from project management environment. The outputs of this work are focused on procedure and method of implementation, and management of human resources. Solution proposals are focused on the company operating in the information technology segment.