Submitted by JOSIANE SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA (josianeso) on 2017-06-06T13:04:42Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Rafael Tiburi Bettiol_.pdf: 3696012 bytes, checksum: 981a8a497c8c80c028d42c364106eda3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-06T13:04:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rafael Tiburi Bettiol_.pdf: 3696012 bytes, checksum: 981a8a497c8c80c028d42c364106eda3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-06-27 / Nenhuma / A Gestão de Processos de Negócio (BPM) vem sendo adotada pelas organizações a fim de solucionar problemas latentes nas interações das atividades organizacionais, proporcionando assim, maior eficiência operacional e melhores níveis de serviço, os quais satisfarão e melhorarão a experiência dos clientes para com os produtos e serviços. Para essa adoção, os processos de negócio passam por projetos de BPM, os quais tem o objetivo de entender como uma determinada etapa da organização atua, eliminando desperdícios, e redesenhar o processo aderindo à melhores práticas e à novos conceitos. Após essas fases de projeto, são estabelecidas ações que irão transformar o processo de negócio do estado atual ao futuro. É neste contexto de pós projeto que este estudo de casos busca analisar o “por que” e o “como” os processos de negócio efetivamente transformaram. O “por que” está na análise das variáveis que influenciam a efetiva transformação, sendo que as variáveis estão baseadas em conceitos de Rotinização, Infusão e Mudança Cultural. E o “como” está baseado nos projetos de BPM, suas técnicas, métodos, ferramentas e entregáveis, estabelecendo padrões de condução. Na execução desta pesquisa, foram efetuadas pesquisas bibliográficas para estabelecer os principais conceitos, possibilitando definições claras das variáveis envolvidas. A pesquisa foi baseada em um estudo de múltiplos casos através das técnicas de coleta de dados entrevista e dados secundários. Foram efetuadas validações dos conceitos, das variáveis, das perguntas e do roteiro de entrevista junto a especialistas empregando Focus Group. Após a validação do instrumento de pesquisa, as entrevistas foram realizadas com organizações que haviam executado projetos de BPM e os respectivos processos estivessem em operação no instante da pesquisa. A coleta de dados, junto com os dados secundários, obteve informações suficientes para a segmentação, codificação e análise. Na análise, para medir a efetiva transformação, foram estabelecidos níveis de influência, negativo, neutro e positivo, para cada variável. Sendo assim, a efetiva transformação dos processos de negócio pôde ser analisada através da composição das influências das variáveis, uso prolongado, uso na integração, orçamento, equipe, capacitação, governança corporativa, fornecimento e manutenção, atitudes individuais para com a mudança e compartilhamento de conhecimento. O resultado do estudo demonstra que a variável uso prolongado foi a que mais influenciou negativamente a efetiva transformação dos casos analisados e, por outro lado, a variável governança corporativa foi a que mais influenciou positivamente. Na análise dos padrões de condução através das técnicas, métodos, ferramentas e entregáveis utilizados nos respectivos projetos de BPM, foi utilizada uma análise chamada de Densidade de Código. A partir dessa 5 densidade pôde-se verificar que Brainstorming, BPMN e Entrevistas são as mais utilizadas dentre as técnicas, métodos, ferramentas e entregáveis dos casos analisados. Portanto, essas análises geraram conteúdo para discussões que se estenderam desde os facilitadores e barreiras para a efetiva transformação, passando por um paralelo entre a efetiva transformação conceitual e a observada, até as técnicas, métodos, ferramentas e entregáveis que mais foram utilizadas. / The Business Process Management (BPM) has been adopted by organizations to solve potential problems in the interactions of organizational activities, thus providing greater operational efficiency and improved service levels, which meet and improve the customer experience toward products and services. For this adoption, business processes undergo BPM projects, which aims to understand how a certain stage of organization operates, eliminating waste, and redesigning the process adhering to best practices and new concepts. After these project phases, actions are established that will transform the business process from the current state to the future. It is in this context of post project that this study of cases aims to analyze the "why" and "how" business processes effectively transformed. The "why" is the analysis of the variables that influence the effective transformation, and the variables are based on concepts of Routinization, Infusion and Cultural Change. And the "how" is based on BPM projects, their techniques, methods, tools and deliverables, setting leading standards. In the execution of this research, literature searches were performed to establish the main concepts, enabling clear definitions of the variables involved. The research was based on a multiple case study through interview data collection techniques and secondary data. The concepts, variables, questions and interview guide were validated with experts using Focus Group. After validation of the research instrument, interviews were conducted with organizations that had implemented BPM projects and their processes were in operation at the instant of the research. The data collection, along with the secondary data, obtained enough information for segmentation, coding and analysis. In the analysis, to measure the effective transformation, were established levels of influence, negative, neutral and positive, for each variable. Thus, the effective transformation of business processes could be analyzed through the composition of the influences of variables, extended use, use in integration, budget, staff, training, corporate governance, supply and maintenance, individual attitudes towards change and sharing knowledge. The result of the study shows that extended use variable was the most negatively influenced the effective transformation of the cases and, on the other hand, the variable corporate governance was the most influenced positively. In the analysis of leading patterns through the techniques, methods, tools and deliverables used in their BPM projects, a analysis called code density was used. From this density could be seen that Brainstorming, BPMN and Interviews are the most used among the techniques, methods, tools and deliverables of the cases. Therefore, these analyzes generated content for discussions that extended from the facilitators and barriers to effective transformation, through a parallel 7 between the conceptual and observed effective transformation until the techniques, methods, tools and deliverables that more were used.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-04T13:55:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 8.pdf: 9480685 bytes, checksum: 65cbb930cc2b75597dfdd60ac4a1838c (MD5) license.txt: 1748 bytes, checksum: 8a4605be74aa9ea9d79846c1fba20a33 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto de Tecnologia em Fármacos/Farmanguinhos. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. / O setor farmacêutico sofre rígida regulamentação e fiscalização para atender às exigências domercado consumidor de forma a garantir a segurança, qualidade e eficácia dos medicamentos.Por fazer parte de um negócio altamente dinâmico como o setor farmacêutico, Farmanguinhostem que lidar com a velocidade das transformações e seus impactos nos processos decomercialização. Desta forma, é crucial que a administração tenha capacidade de resposta àmudança do ambiente, percebendo os desafios impostos, diagnosticando os impactos,decidindo o que fazer e pondo em prática suas decisões. A implantação de um sistemaintegrado de gestão alinhando o planejamento à estratégia e aos processos da organização temsido tratado e exposto em vários estudos. O gerenciamento de processos de negócios (BPM)permite as organizações uma melhor visibilidade de suas atividades o que favorece ações demelhoria na qualidade de seus produtos e serviços além de proporcionar o alinhamento comas estratégias organizacionais. Esse estudo contribui para o aperfeiçoamento da gestão públicacom a adoção de práticas de BPM, buscando a integração dos processos institucionais àestratégia. A partir desta proposta, Farmanguinhos passa a adotar uma ferramenta que poderáestabelecer a sistematização do planejamento com o alinhamento da estratégia aos processos,devendo estar claramente definidos e difundidos em toda a organização. / The pharmaceutical industry undergoes strict regulations and supervision to meet the requirements of the consumer market in order to ensure the safety, quality and efficacy of medicines. To be part of a highly dynamic business like the pharmaceutical industry, Farmanguinhos have to deal with the speed of change and its impact on marketing processes. Thus, it is crucial that the administration be responsive to environmental change, realizing the challenges, diagnosing the impacts, deciding what to do and putting into practice their decisions. The implementation of an integrated management system aligning planning the strategy and the organization's processes have been treated and exposed in several studies. The business process management (BPM) enables organizations better visibility of its activities which favors actions to improve the quality of its products and services in addition to providing alignment with the organizational strategies. This study contribute to the improvement of public management with the adoption of BPM practices, seeking from integration of institutional processes to strategy. Based on this proposal, Farmanguinhos will adopt a tool that can establish systematic planning with the alignment of strategy to proceedings and should be clearly defined and disseminated throughout the organization.

A regulação assistencial é um importante instrumento de gestão pública que tem como objetivo viabilizar o acesso dos usuários aos serviços de saúde. No entanto, há estudos que apontam que não há um equilíbrio entre a oferta e a demanda por serviços da atenção secundária no SUS. Na presente pesquisa questiona-se como está efetivamente estruturado o acesso a esse nível de atenção e quais os principais entraves para a efetividade do acesso. O objetivo consistiu em analisar o processo de acesso à atenção secundária da saúde buscando identificar oportunidades de melhoria. O foco desse estudo foi o acesso à especialidade médica de gastrocirurgia dos dois hospitais secundários integrantes do complexo do Hospital das Clínicas de Ribeirão Preto. Foram realizadas entrevistas com gestores, médicos e demais profissionais envolvidos no processo. A partir das informações coletadas foi construído um mapa dos processos utilizando o software Bizagi e a notação de modelagem de processos de negócios (BPMN). A partir da descrição e análise, foi verificado como os processos descritos poderiam ser otimizados. Foi possível identificar que os dois processos estudados, apesar de terem o mesmo objetivo: prover acesso a atenção secundária de saúde, possuem diferenças marcantes. As vagas são distribuídas aos municípios na forma de cotas no processo de acesso ao HEAB enquanto que no acesso ao HERP há uma regulação compartilhada entre o DRSXIII e o próprio hospital. Os principais problemas identificados foram: absenteísmo dos usuários nas consultas; guias de referência incompletas ou ilegíveis; dificuldades de relacionamento entre os profissionais e organizações de saúde; demora para agendar consulta, entre outros. Concluiu-se que existem pontos no processo que não estão coerentes com as normas que o regulam e que há dados que podem ser utilizados para medir o desempenho do processo, como a proporção de casos novos e de pedidos de interconsulta; distribuição de vagas por município e situação após primeira consulta. Concluiu-se ainda que os problemas identificados podem ser solucionados a partir da implantação de melhorias sugeridas como: melhorar a comunicação e a triagem nos municípios, realizar treinamento dos funcionários e divulgar protocolos aos envolvidos. / The assistance regulation is an important public management tool that aims to facilitate users\' access to health services. However, studies show that there is not a balance between supply and demand for services in secondary care in the Unified Health System (SUS). In the present study it casts doubt on how the access is effectively structured to this level of care and what the main obstacles to the effectiveness of access are. The aim was analyze the process of access to secondary health care seeking to identify opportunities for improvement. The focus of this study was the access to medical specialty Gastrosurgery of the two hospitals that are members of the complex of the General Hospital of Ribeirão Preto Medical School (University of São Paulo). Interviews were conducted with managers, doctors and other stakeholders. From the information collected, a map of the processes using the Bizagi software and the notation for business process modeling (BPMN) was constructed. From the description and analysis, it was verified how the described processes could be optimized. It was possible to identify that the two processes studied have the same goal: provide access to secondary health care, have marked differences, such as how the distribution of vacancies. The vacancies are distributed to municipalities for quotas in the process of access to HEAB while access to HERP there is a shared regulation between the DRSXIII and the hospital. The main problems identified were outpatient non-attendance (absenteeism), incomplete or illegible reference guides, relationship difficulties between professionals and health organizations, long wait for schedule consultation, among others. It was concluded that there are points in the process that are not consistent with the rules that regulate, there is data that can be used to measure the performance process, as the proportion of new cases and requests for referral; distribution of vacancies for municipality and situation after first appointment. It was possible concluded also that the problems found can be solved through the implementation of suggested improvements; such as how improve communication and sorting in the municipalities, conduct employee training and disseminate the protocols involved.

Orientador: Mauricio Ferreira Magalhães / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T01:16:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Nader_MarcosVaninePortilhode_M.pdf: 1214383 bytes, checksum: 40e83a8be1c7e86e788d810a8799f6b8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Duas áreas importantes estão em desenvolvimento: Gerência de Processos de Negócios (Business Process Management) e Orquestração de Web Services (Web Services Orchestration). Ambas têm um objetivo que é integrar aplicações ou outros processos que tenham interfaces web services, usando o paradigma de processos de negócios. Uma linguagem que vem sendo difundida para essas aplicações é a BPEL (Business Process Execution Language). Este trabalho apresenta um framework aplicável à análise e verificação de processos de negócios escritos em BPEL através do uso de Pi-Calculus. Pi-Calculus é uma álgebra de processos que possui mecanismos formais para criação e ativação de processos que se comunicam através da troca de mensagens em canais, usando o modelo de rendezvous síncrono. Nesse framework, o processo BPEL é traduzido para um programa Pi-Calculus. Uma Máquina Virtual Pi-Calculus (MVP) recebe o programa Pi-Calculus e produz todas as reações possíveis, ou seja, gera todos os caminhos de execução que o programa pode seguir. A partir desse resultado, efetua-se a verificação de propriedades como: atendimento às especificações de mais alto nível, ordenação de eventos e ocorrência ou não de deadlocks. Em termos práticos, uma ferramenta desse tipo pode ser incorporada aos Sistemas de Gerência de Processos de Negócios (Business Process Management Systems - BPMS) para ampliar a cobertura de testes durante as fases de análise e implementação de um processo dentro do seu ciclo de vida. Nesses tipos de sistemas, a reparação de um erro durante a fase de execução é muito mais custosa que nos sistemas tradicionais / Abstract: Two important areas have been in development lately: Business Process Management and Web Service Orchestration. In both of them, the objective is to integrate applications with web services interface through business process paradigm. A number of languages have been proposed with consensus being formed around BPEL (Business Process Execution Language). This dissertation presents a framework for BPEL processes analysis and verification through Pi-Calculus. Pi-Calculus is a process algebra with formal mechanisms for processes creation and activation; these processes communicate sending and receiving messages through channels using the synchronous rendezvous model. In this framework, the BPEL process is translated to a Pi-Calculus program, A Pi-Calculus Virtual Machine (MVP) receives a Pi-calculus program and executes all possible reactions, that is, it generates all execution paths possible to be taken. With this result, the properties such as high-level specification accomplishment, events ordering and deadlock freedom are verified. In practical terms, a tool of this sort can be part of a Business Process Management System (BPMS) to broaden test coverage during the analysis and implementation phases within a process life cycle. In these kinds of systems, a repairing mistake during the execution phase is more complex than in traditional systems / Mestrado / Engenharia de Computação / Mestre em Engenharia Elétrica

Det är allt vanligare att organisationer och dess processer genomgår en digital transformation föratt uppnå konkurrensfördelar. Organisationer letar ofta efter effektivare sätt att utföra processer.För att effektivisera processer kan digitala verktyg som Robotic Process Automation (RPA)användas. RPA har under de senaste fem åren blivit populärt bland organisationer då RPA oftastger en snabb return on investment (ROI). Vid ett strukturerat införande av RPA i organisationerkrävs ett förändringsarbete då det kan uppstå utmaningar som behöver hanteras. Befintliglitteratur inom RPA-området beskriver olika typer av metoder och utmaningar vid införande avRPA, men lite är känt om hur utmaningar och förändringar påverkar RPA-införandet och när deförekommer. Studiens syfte är därför att identifiera vilka utmaningar som uppkommit vidinförandet och när de förekommer. Studiens frågeställning lyder: Vilka utmaningar iförändringsarbetet finns det vid införande av RPA? Studien visar att utmaningar som uppkommer bör hanteras i tid för att inte påverka senareaktiviteter i RPA-införandet. Studiens slutsats är att det finns många olika typer av utmaningarsom en organisation ställs inför i förändringsarbetet när de för in RPA. Studiens resultat påidentifierade utmaningar är motstånd i organisationen, förändringsledning,processbeskrivningar, utveckling av RPA och övervakning av RPA. Det bidrag som studien tillförtill forskningsområdet är när utmaningar vid ett RPA-införande kan förekomma och hur derelaterar till varandra under RPA-införandet. / It’s common that organizations and their processes goes through a digital transformation toachieve competitive advantages. Organizations are often looking for more efficient ways ofexecuting their processes. To achieve efficiency in organizations, digital tools like RoboticProcess Automation (RPA) could be used. During the past five years RPA has become popularamong organizations due to a fast return on investments (ROI). When in a structured wayimplementing RPA in organizations, change management should be applied to handle potentialchallenges. Existing literature within the RPA field explains different types of models andholistic challenges when transitioning to RPA, however, little is known about how these changesare affecting the RPA-implementation and when they occur. Consequently, the purpose of thisstudy is to identify what challenges organizations have met during the implementation and whenthe challenges occurred. The question of the study is: What challenges in the change process isthere when implementing RPA? The study shows the importance of managing the challenges that arise initially to prevent futureissues in the RPA-project. The conclusion is that there are many different types of challenges thatan organization will encounter in change management when implementing RPA. The result of thestudy identified following challenges, organizational resistance, change management, processdescription, development of RPA and monitoring of RPA. The contribution of the study to theresearch area is when challenges during a RPA-implementation can occur and how challengesrelate to each other during the RPA-implementation.

Ein Großteil der globalen Merger & Acquisitions (M&A) finden im Dienstleistungssektor statt. Der Integrationsprozess ist ausschlaggebend für den Erfolg einer M&A. Allerdings tritt die erhoffte Wertschöpfung bei einem Großteil der fusionierten Unternehmen nicht ein. Gerade im Dienstleistungssektor ist das Know-How der Organisation in den Prozessen gebündelt und bildet dadurch den Unternehmenswert, daher kommt der Prozessharmonisierung (PH) eine essentielle Bedeutung für das Gelingen der Post Merger Integration (PMI) zu. Eine effiziente PH und die Etablierung eines gemeinsamen Managementsystems wird in der PMI erschwert durch die oft angespannte Situation des Change Prozesses. Zeitdruck, kulturelle Unterschiede, Interessenskonflikte sowie weitere Störfaktoren können das Vorhaben beeinträchtigen. Insbesondere die Integrationsansätze Absorption und Symbiose erfordern eine neue vereinheitlichte Unternehmensstruktur und beeinflussen Managementsystem und Prozesslandschaft eines Unternehmens erheblich. Gleichzeitig gewinnt die Digitalisierung zunehmend an Bedeutung, so dass im Rahmen der PH eine Modernisierung hinsichtlich Industrie 4.0 / Qualität 4.0 geprüft werden sollte. Die vorliegende Arbeit fasst 10 Einzelbeiträge zum Themenbereich PH in fusionierten Dienstleistungsunternehmen im Zeitalter Industrie 4.0 zu einer kumulativen Dissertation zusammen, mit dem Ziel eine Methode zur PH in der PMI zu entwickeln. Der Forschungsmethode des Design Science Research folgend bauen die Einzelbeiträge aufeinander auf, beginnend mit einer systematischen Literaturanalyse, gefolgt von einer Anforderungsanalyse unter Nutzung der Mixed-Methods-Forschung und der Entwicklung und Anwendung eines Artefakts. Als Artefakt präsentiert die vorliegende Arbeit eine Methode, bestehend aus dem Vorgehensmodell ProMerge! mit zugehörigem Tool ProMergeTool!, das fusionierte Organisationen bei der PH in der PMI methodisch unterstützt. Die Anwendbarkeit und Praxistauglichkeit der Methode wird in einem realen Anwendungsfall demonstriert.:VORWORT I ABSTRACT II INHALTSVERZEICHNIS III ABBILDUNGSVERZEICHNIS V TABELLENVERZEICHNIS VI ABKÜRZUNGSVERZEICHNIS VII 1 MOTIVATION UND PROBLEMSTELLUNG 1 2 FORSCHUNGSDESIGN 3 2.1 WISSENSCHAFTSTHEORETISCHE POSITIONIERUNG 3 2.2 FORSCHUNGSZIEL 4 2.3 FORSCHUNGSMETHODE 5 3 ANFORDERUNGEN AN DAS ARTEFAKT 7 4 AUFBAU DER DISSERTATION 9 4.1 ÜBERBLICK 9 4.2 ZUSAMMENFASSUNG DER EINZELBEITRÄGE 11 4.2.1 Bedarfe zur Prozessharmonisierung in fusionierten Dienstleistungsunternehmen im Zeitalter Quality 4.0 11 4.2.2 Methodologies for process harmonization in the post merger integration phase - a literature review 12 4.2.3 Prozessharmonisierung in der Post Merger Integration – Qualitätskriterien für den Integrationsprozess 13 4.2.4 Process Harmonization Phase Model in Post Merger Integration 13 4.2.5 Significance of Quality 4.0 in Post Merger Process Harmonization 14 4.2.6 Successful Post Merger Process Harmonization in the Triangle of Methodologies, Capabilities and Acceptance 16 4.2.7 Mixed Methods approach as requirements analysis of a method for process harmonization in Design Science Research 17 4.2.8 Creating a Method for Post-Merger Process Harmonization 18 4.2.9 Evaluating a Method for Process Harmonization 19 4.2.10 Prozessharmonisierung in der Post-Merger-Integration mit ProMerge! und ProMergeTool! - ein Anwendungsbeispiel 20 5 DISKUSSION UND FAZIT 21 5.1 DISKUSSION DER ERGEBNISSE 21 5.1.1 Gestaltung als Artefakt 21 5.1.2 Problemrelevanz 22 5.1.3 Suchprozess zur Gestaltung des Artefakts 22 5.1.4 Design Evaluation 22 5.1.5 Kommunikation der Forschungsergebnisse 23 5.1.6 Rigorosität der Forschung 23 5.1.7 Forschungsbeitrag 24 5.2 WISSENSCHAFTLICHER BEITRAG 24 5.3 PRAKTISCHER BEITRAG 25 REFERENZEN 27 ANHANG 1: FRAGEBOGEN FÜR EXPERTENINTERVIEWS 30 ANHANG 2: FRAGEBOGEN QUANTITATIVE ANALYSE 31 ANHANG 3: PROMERGE! 36 ANHANG 4: PROMERGETOOL! - AUSSCHNITTE 37 6 EINZELBEITRAG 1 40 7 EINZELBEITRAG 2 41 8 EINZELBEITRAG 3 42 9 EINZELBEITRAG 4 43 10 EINZELBEITRAG 5 44 11 EINZELBEITRAG 6 45 12 EINZELBEITRAG 7 46 13 EINZELBEITRAG 8 47 14 EINZELBEITRAG 9 72 15 EINZELBEITRAG 10 91

[pt] A pandemia da COVID-19 se espalhou rapidamente pelo mundo. No Brasil, várias organizações, como a Cruz Vermelha Brasileira (CVB), atuaram em diversas ações contra a disseminação do vírus e de apoio às populações mais vulneráveis. Em resposta às emergências de saúde pública, os suprimentos de socorro imediatos são essenciais para reduzir danos. Para assegurar a distribuição dos donativos aos beneficiários no tempo certo, é fundamental uma gestão adequada da cadeia de suprimentos (CS). Esta dissertação tem como objetivo principal a revisão dos processos da CVB, à luz da literatura, visando promover condições reais de transformação nos referidos processos, com vistas à melhoria do desempenho organizacional e da eficiência e eficácia na distribuição dos itens de alívio. Baseando-se em uma Revisão de Escopo da literatura, identificar o estado da arte sobre os Fatores Críticos de Sucesso da Logística Humanitária em situações de crise epidemiológicas, como a COVID-19, e as melhores práticas para alcançá-los. Neste trabalho, é conduzido um Estudo de Caso sobre a cadeia logística da CVB em que, através de entrevistas com especialistas e análise documental de publicações oficiais, foi diagramado o fluxograma dos macroprocessos atuais (captação e recebimento de doações, distribuição das doações, recebimento nas filiais, distribuição de última milha). Em seguida, à luz da literatura, identificou-se 10 oportunidades de melhoria, resultando na revisão de seus processos, reformulando e validando os macroprocessos logísticos da CVB, onde foi possível concluir que as melhorias propostas são viáveis e apresentam um potencial significativo de impacto positivo nas atividades humanitárias da organização. / [en] The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly spread throughout the world. In Brazil, various organizations, such as the Brazilian Red Cross (CVB), have engaged in several actions against the spread of the virus and in support of the most vulnerable populations. In response to public health emergencies, immediate relief supplies are essential to reduce harm. To ensure the timely distribution of donations to beneficiaries, proper supply chain management (SCM) is fundamental. This dissertation aims to review CVB s processes in light of the literature, in order to promote real conditions for transformation in these processes, with a view to improving organizational performance and effectiveness in distributing relief items. Based on a Scoping Review of the literature, the state of the art on Critical Success Factors of Humanitarian Logistics in epidemiological crisis situations, such as COVID-19, and the best practices to achieve them were identified. In this work, a Case Study was conducted on CVB s logistics chain, in which, through interviews with experts and documentary analysis of official publications, the flowchart of current macro-processes (donation capture and receipt, donation distribution, branch receipt, last-mile distribution) was diagrammed. Next, in light of the literature, 10 opportunities for improvement were identified, resulting in the revision of its processes, reformulating and validating CVB s logistics macro-processes, where it was possible to conclude that the proposed improvements are feasible and present significant potential for positive impact on the organization s humanitarian activities.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the opportunities that Industry 4.0 brings within the framework of applying Cyber Physical Systems in an environment of a Smart Factory. This paper shall identify the changes within daily business processes and the impact of these changes on the daily business life. Design/Methodology/Approach: The research is carried out as a case study research. Due to a qualitative approach for this case study interviews are conducted and the results are analyzed and discussed. Findings: Industry 4.0 will change the way we are working today and influence businesses and business processes in many ways. Data handling, processes and efficiency will change and the way we perceive manufacturing will change in a long term view. Further Research: It would be recommended to expand this research by conducting more research in this particular field as well as impacts on the employee should be studied more in detail.

Flexibility and Interoperability have become important characteristics for organisations and their business processes. The need to control flexible business processes within an organisation’s boundaries and between organisations imposes major requirements on a company’s process control capabilities. Workflow Management Systems (WFMS) try to fulfil these requirements by offering respective product features. Evidence suggests that the achievement of flexible business processes and an inter-organisational process control is also influenced by implementation processes for Workflow Management Applications (WFMA). [A WFMA comprises the WFMS and "all WFMS specific data with regard to one or more business processes" [VER01]]. The impact of a WFMA implementation methodology on the fulfilment of these requirements is the research scope of the project. The thesis provides knowledge in the following areas: 1. Review of the relationship between workflow management and the claim for process flexibility respectively -interoperability. 2. Definition of a research-/evaluation framework for workflow projects. This framework is composed of all relevant research variables that have been identified for the thesis. 3. Empirical survey of relevant workflow-project objectives and their priority in the context of process flexibility and –interoperability. 4. Empirical survey of the objectives’ achievement. 5. Empirical survey of methodologies / activities that have been applied within workflow projects. 6. Derivation of the project methodologies’ effectiveness in terms of the impact that applied activities had on project objectives. 7. Evaluation of existing workflow life-cycle models in accordance with the research framework. 8. Identification of basic improvements for workflow implementation processes with respect to the achievement of flexible and interoperable business processes. The first part of the thesis argues the relevance of the subject. Afterwards research variables that constitute the evaluation framework for WFMA implementation processes are stepwise identified and defined. An empirical study then proves the variables’ effectiveness for the achievement of process flexibility and –interoperability within the WFMA implementation process. After this the framework is applied to evaluate chosen WFMA implementation methodologies. Identified weaknesses and effective methodological aspects are utilised to develop generic methodological improvements. These improvements are later validated by means of a case study and interviews with workflow experts.

Problem/Purpose: Process prioritisation is an ill-structured and complex problem that remains a mystery phase in business process management (BPM) research. More explorative approaches are called upon to tackle process management problems, to facilitate process innovation and to design new processes in dynamic environments. This dissertation aims (i) to design and evaluate a Prioritisation and Categorisation Method (PCM) for addressing process prioritisation problems; and (ii) to explore process innovation by disruptive technologies. Research methods: This research follows the design science research (DSR) paradigm. The design exploration and the engaged scholarship approaches are also adapted. The demonstration and evaluation of the Prioritisation and Categorisation Method have been conducted with case studies in large Swedish companies, i.e. Seco Tools and Ericsson. An empirical study of the impacts of disruptive technologies on process innovation was conducted at a large insurance company in Sweden. Results: This research has led to the design and evaluation of the PCM: a new context-aware, effective and holistic method for BPM. In addition, the lessons learnt from the insurance case deepened the understanding of the challenges that are faced by a company when exploring new capabilities (e.g. processes and IT) for future business. Such lessons also emphasise the necessity of configuring PCM based upon business contingencies and industry factors in process prioritisation. Contributions: This dissertation contributes a novel method to explore BPM in a holistic, yet flexible and effective way. The challenges identified in process innovations improve the configuration capabilities of the PCM through a deeper understanding of the dynamic capabilities within organisations (Capability Layer Model-CLM). This research contributes design knowledge to DSR in the forms of the PCM as an invention, and the three design principles for the PCM: design by holistics, design by commitments and design by explorations. The research is evaluated as good BPM and good design science research.