Submitted by Joana Azevedo (joanad@id.uff.br) on 2017-07-03T18:35:19Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissert LUCIANA SOUZA CASTRO.pdf: 3617924 bytes, checksum: 49fc705eff9854e361af269808aca5b4 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Biblioteca da Escola de Engenharia (bee@ndc.uff.br) on 2017-07-10T16:16:03Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissert LUCIANA SOUZA CASTRO.pdf: 3617924 bytes, checksum: 49fc705eff9854e361af269808aca5b4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-10T16:16:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissert LUCIANA SOUZA CASTRO.pdf: 3617924 bytes, checksum: 49fc705eff9854e361af269808aca5b4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-12-20 / Tanto a dinâmica da produção tecnológica como a globalização vêm há décadas provocando transformações, não só na forma como se produz um determinado produto ou serviço, mas em todo o seu contexto. A gestão por processos passou a ser uma demanda nos novos tempos por proporcionar uma solução possível para os desafios que se anunciam a cada instante. A pesquisa objetivou utilizá-la para otimizar um processo de aquisição bibliográfica, considerando sua interferência na estrutura funcional, organizacional e financeira da biblioteca. A presente pesquisa caracteriza-se como qualitativa quanto à natureza e como dedutiva, quanto à abordagem teórica. O meio utilizado para investigação foi o estudo de caso. O campo de aplicação da pesquisa foi a Biblioteca do Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca (CEFET/RJ), campus Petrópolis. Através do mapeamento chegou-se ao registro, à compreensão e à normalização deste processo, além de considerar fatores externos e internos que influenciam direta ou indiretamente na efetividade do processo, o que fundamentou melhorias identificadas como necessárias e que, uma vez implementadas, refletirão na atuação da biblioteca diante do atendimento às demandas por serviços de informação. O padrão de modelagem adotado foi o Business Process Management Notation (BPMN). A modelagem em questão permitiu a identificação de problemas, e evidenciou as implicações dos fatores identificados e considerados no contexto do processo. Esta análise acrescentou melhorias e mudanças diretas no processo gerando a proposta de um novo modelo para o processo de aquisição bibliográfica para a biblioteca. A pesquisa contribui para a área de Engenharia de produção no que diversifica a aplicação de suas ferramentas no benefício a gestão de outras áreas como a Biblioteconomia e Documentação. / For decades, the dynamics of technological production and globalization have led to changes not only in the way a product or service is produced, but in their whole context. In recent times, the process management became a requirement and a solution to future challenges which frequently arise. The objective of this research is its application to a bibliographic acquisition process optimization, since this process interferes in the functional, organizational and budgetary structure of a library. This research is characterized as qualitative in its nature and as deductive in its theoretical approach and a case study is used. The research application field is the Library of the Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca (CEFET / RJ) Petropolis campus. A process mapping aims at the comprehension, standardization and registration of the process. Besides, external and internal factors that directly or indirectly influence in the effectiveness of the process are considered. Thereby, the basis to support improvements to be implemented in the library's activities are set. These reflect in the fulfillment of the demand for information services. The Business Process Management Notation (BPMN) is the modeling standard adopted, i.e. it is the basis for the modeling of the process. The modeling in question allowed the identification of problems, and evidenced the implications of the factors identified and considered in the context of the process. This analysis added improvements and direct changes in the process which resulted in a proposal for a new model for the bibliographic acquisition process for the library. The research contributes to the area of Production Engineering by diversifying the applications of its tools and results inmanagerial benefits in other areas such as Librarianship and Documentation.

O alinhamento estratégico entre as áreas de Tecnologia da Informação (TI) e de negócio é motivado pela necessidade das grandes organizações em aproveitar a capacidade da TI em transformar processos de negócio e disponibilizar bons produtos e serviços, destacando-se em um cenário competitivo. Nesse contexto, a Gestão de Processos de Negócio (BPM Business Process Management) e a Orientação a Serviços ganham espaço nas organizações por serem capazes de automatizar e aperfeiçoar os processos e os serviços necessários ao Negócio. No tratamento de processos e serviços, é importante atentar-se não apenas a propriedades funcionais (ou seja, as atividades que devem ser realizadas), mas também a propriedades não funcionais, tais como restrições de operação e de qualidade; dessa forma, é possível minimizar o desperdício de investimentos em TI com ineficiência e retrabalho. As linguagens mais conceituadas para modelagem de processos de negócio, incluindo BPMN, carecem da representação dessas propriedades não funcionais, criando uma lacuna entre a identificação de propriedades funcionais e não funcionais e também entre a modelagem do processo e sua implementação. Este projeto de mestrado teve como objetivo contribuir para o preenchimento dessa lacuna, propondo a abordagem StrAli-BPM (Strategic Alignment with BPM), que se subdivide nas partes BLA@BPMN e BLA2SLA: a primeira para estender a linguagem BPMN visando incorporar propriedades não funcionais, na forma de BLAs (Business Level Agreements) enriquecidos com KPIs (Key Performance Indicators), em sua estrutura de modelagem de processos; e a segunda para derivar semiautomaticamente um conjunto de SLAs (Service Level Agreements), associados a serviços web, a partir de um BLA pré-definido. Com isso, as áreas de TI e de negócio compartilham uma linguagem comum, facilitando o diálogo e o alinhamento entre os objetivos organizacionais e as obrigações da TI. / The strategic alignment between the Information Technology (IT) and the Business areas is motivated by the need of large organizations to exploit IT\'s ability to transform business processes and deliver good products and services to stand out in a competitive scenario. In this context, Business Process Management (BPM) and Service Orientation gain space in organizations, since they are able to automate and optimize the needed processes and services for the business. In the process and services treatment, it is important to attend not only functional properties (i.e., activities that must be executed), but also non-functional properties, such as operating and quality constraints; thereby, it is possible to minimize waste of IT investments due to inefficiency and rework. The most prestigious languages for business process modeling, including BPMN, lack representation of these non-functional properties, which creates a gap between the identification of functional and non-functional properties as well as between the process modeling and its implementation. This masters project aimed to contribute to filling this gap by proposing the StrAli-BPM (Strategic Alignment with BPM) approach, which is divided in two parts BLA@BPMN and BLA2SLA: the former to extend the BPMN language aiming to embody non-functional properties, in the form of BLAs (Business Level Agreements) enriched with KPIs (Key Performance Indicators); and the latter to semi-automatically derive a set of SLAs (Service Level Agreements), associated with web services, from a pre-defined BLA. In doing so, IT and Business areas share a common language, simplifying dialogue and alignment between organizational objectives and IT obligations.

A Arquitetura Orientada a Serviço SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) firmou-se como paradigma de desenvolvimento de sistemas de tecnologia da informação e comunicação TIC, pelas suas características que proporcionam flexibilidade, agilidade, reuso e escalabilidade. Porém, para que uma aplicação SOA seja bem-sucedida é imperativo que seja embasada por uma governança eficaz. Como desenvolver e manter esta governança atualizada em um ambiente com rápidas e imprevisíveis mudanças é um grande desafio. Este trabalho tem como objetivo apresentar uma metodologia para que uma organização com infra-estrutura modesta de TI possa manter esta governança SOA (governança de sistemas baseados na Arquitetura Orientada a Serviço), utilizando as capacidades dinâmicas constituídas por habilidades e rotinas peculiares da organização. A contribuição do trabalho reside na ligação, praticamente inexistente, das linhas de pesquisa de governança SOA e de capacidades dinâmicas. Para isto, o trabalho identifica o que precisa ser feito (framework), quem são os responsáveis pelo desenvolvimento e manutenção (atores) e como atuar na governança SOA (plataforma). O desenvolvimento foi embasado por uma extensa pesquisa dos conceitos envolvidos, seguido pela inferência das capacidades dinâmicas necessárias para a governança SOA e, finalmente, a implementação de uma plataforma que permite ao analista de processos mudar a governança SOA de forma interativa. O trabalho teve como resultados a elaboração de uma metodologia e um sistema de manutenção da governança operacional de sistemas baseados em SOA. A metodologia compreende os requisitos e a forma de análise das mudanças dos elementos que compõem a governança SOA. O sistema é constituído por um framework e uma plataforma de implantação ágil e eficaz, para aplicar capacidades dinâmicas na governança SOA. / SOA Service Oriented Architecture has been established as the paradigm for IT Information Technology systems development, due to its features that promotes flexibility, agility, reuse and scalability. However, an SOA application to be successful must be supported by effective governance. How to develop and maintain this governance up to date in a fast and unpredictable environment is a great challenge. This work aims to present a methodology that allows a modest IT infrastructure to be able to cope with SOA governance, using dynamic capabilities (particular abilities and routines of an organization). The contribution of this work is the link (practically inexistent) between lines of research in SOA governance and dynamic capabilities. To accomplish this purpose, this work sought to what must be done (framework), who is the responsible for the development and maintenance (owner), and how to perform the SOA governance (platform). The development has been founded by an extensive research of involved concepts, inference of required dynamic capabilities to maintain the SOA governance and the development of a platform that allows a process analyst to change SOA governance interactively. The results were a methodology and a maintenance system of SOA operational governance. The methodology comprises the requirements and changes in the analysis procedure of the elements of the SOA governance. The system is composed of an agile and effective implementation framework and platform that enable how to apply dynamic capabilities into the SOA governance. The Introduction presents examples of practical application (motivation), the goal, the justification, and the scope. Chapter 2 presents an extensive literature review about SOA, SOA governance, and dynamic capabilities, from both academic and commercial literature. Chapter 3 presents the methodology and a brief history of the development. Chapter 4 presents the development of the proposed system. Chapter 5 discusses some topics related to the proposition. Chapter 6 presents the conclusion and proposals for future developments.

This study explores complexity metrics for business artifact process models described by Case Management Model and Notation (CMMN). Process models are usually described using Business Process Management (BPM), which is a relatively mature discipline with a large number of practitioners. Over the last few decades a new way of describing data intensive business processes has emerged in BPM literature, for which traditional BPM is no longer adequate. This emerging method, used to describe more flexible processes, is called business artifacts with Guard-Stage-Milestone (GSM). The work on GSM influenced CMMN, which was created to fill a market need for more flexible case management processes for knowledge workers. Complexity metrics have been developed for traditional BPM models, such as the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN). However, traditional BPM is not suitable for describing GSM or CMMN process models. Therefore, complexity metrics developed for traditional process models may not be applicable to business artifact process models such as CMMN. This study addresses this gap by exploring complexity metrics for business artifact process models using CMMN. The findings of this study have practical implications for the CMMN standard and for the commercial products implementing CMMN. This research makes the following contributions: • The development of a formal description of CMMN using first-order logic. • An exploration of the relationship between CMMN and GSM and the development of transformation procedures between them. • A comparison between the method complexity of CMMN and other popular process methods, including BPMN, Unified Modeling Language (UML) Activity diagrams, and Event-driven Process Charts (EPC). • The creation of a systematic literature review of complexity metrics for process models, which was conducted in order to inform the creation of CMMN metrics. • The identification of a set of complexity metrics for the CMMN standard, which underwent theoretical and empirical validation. This research advances literature in the areas of method complexity, complexity metrics for process models, declarative processes, and research on CMMN by characterizing CMMN method complexity, identifying complexity metrics for CMMN, and exploring the relationship between CMMN and GSM. / School of Computing / Ph. D. (Computer Science)

Organizations try to gain competitive advantages, and to increase customer satisfaction. To ensure the quality and efficiency of their business processes, they perform business process management. An important part of process management that happens on the daily operational level is process controlling. A prerequisite of controlling is process monitoring, i.e., keeping track of the performed activities in running process instances. Only by process monitoring can business analysts detect delays and react to deviations from the expected or guaranteed performance of a process instance. To enable monitoring, process events need to be collected from the process environment. When a business process is orchestrated by a process execution engine, monitoring is available for all orchestrated process activities. Many business processes, however, do not lend themselves to automatic orchestration, e.g., because of required freedom of action. This situation is often encountered in hospitals, where most business processes are manually enacted. Hence, in practice it is often inefficient or infeasible to document and monitor every process activity. Additionally, manual process execution and documentation is prone to errors, e.g., documentation of activities can be forgotten. Thus, organizations face the challenge of process events that occur, but are not observed by the monitoring environment. These unobserved process events can serve as basis for operational process decisions, even without exact knowledge of when they happened or when they will happen. An exemplary decision is whether to invest more resources to manage timely completion of a case, anticipating that the process end event will occur too late. This thesis offers means to reason about unobserved process events in a probabilistic way. We address decisive questions of process managers (e.g., "when will the case be finished?", or "when did we perform the activity that we forgot to document?") in this thesis. As main contribution, we introduce an advanced probabilistic model to business process management that is based on a stochastic variant of Petri nets. We present a holistic approach to use the model effectively along the business process lifecycle. Therefore, we provide techniques to discover such models from historical observations, to predict the termination time of processes, and to ensure quality by missing data management. We propose mechanisms to optimize configuration for monitoring and prediction, i.e., to offer guidance in selecting important activities to monitor. An implementation is provided as a proof of concept. For evaluation, we compare the accuracy of the approach with that of state-of-the-art approaches using real process data of a hospital. Additionally, we show its more general applicability in other domains by applying the approach on process data from logistics and finance. / Unternehmen versuchen Wettbewerbsvorteile zu gewinnen und die Kundenzufriedenheit zu erhöhen. Um die Qualität und die Effizienz ihrer Prozesse zu gewährleisten, wenden Unternehmen Geschäftsprozessmanagement an. Hierbei spielt die Prozesskontrolle im täglichen Betrieb eine wichtige Rolle. Prozesskontrolle wird durch Prozessmonitoring ermöglicht, d.h. durch die Überwachung des Prozessfortschritts laufender Prozessinstanzen. So können Verzögerungen entdeckt und es kann entsprechend reagiert werden, um Prozesse wie erwartet und termingerecht beenden zu können. Um Prozessmonitoring zu ermöglichen, müssen prozessrelevante Ereignisse aus der Prozessumgebung gesammelt und ausgewertet werden. Sofern eine Prozessausführungsengine die Orchestrierung von Geschäftsprozessen übernimmt, kann jede Prozessaktivität überwacht werden. Aber viele Geschäftsprozesse eignen sich nicht für automatisierte Orchestrierung, da sie z.B. besonders viel Handlungsfreiheit erfordern. Dies ist in Krankenhäusern der Fall, in denen Geschäftsprozesse oft manuell durchgeführt werden. Daher ist es meist umständlich oder unmöglich, jeden Prozessfortschritt zu erfassen. Zudem ist händische Prozessausführung und -dokumentation fehleranfällig, so wird z.B. manchmal vergessen zu dokumentieren. Eine Herausforderung für Unternehmen ist, dass manche Prozessereignisse nicht im Prozessmonitoring erfasst werden. Solch unbeobachtete Prozessereignisse können jedoch als Entscheidungsgrundlage dienen, selbst wenn kein exaktes Wissen über den Zeitpunkt ihres Auftretens vorliegt. Zum Beispiel ist bei der Prozesskontrolle zu entscheiden, ob zusätzliche Ressourcen eingesetzt werden sollen, wenn eine Verspätung angenommen wird. Diese Arbeit stellt einen probabilistischen Ansatz für den Umgang mit unbeobachteten Prozessereignissen vor. Dabei werden entscheidende Fragen von Prozessmanagern beantwortet (z.B. "Wann werden wir den Fall beenden?", oder "Wann wurde die Aktivität ausgeführt, die nicht dokumentiert wurde?"). Der Hauptbeitrag der Arbeit ist die Einführung eines erweiterten probabilistischen Modells ins Geschäftsprozessmanagement, das auf stochastischen Petri Netzen basiert. Dabei wird ein ganzheitlicher Ansatz zur Unterstützung der einzelnen Phasen des Geschäftsprozesslebenszyklus verfolgt. Es werden Techniken zum Lernen des probabilistischen Modells, zum Vorhersagen des Zeitpunkts des Prozessendes, zum Qualitätsmanagement von Dokumentationen durch Erkennung fehlender Einträge, und zur Optimierung von Monitoringkonfigurationen bereitgestellt. Letztere dient zur Auswahl von relevanten Stellen im Prozess, die beobachtet werden sollten. Diese Techniken wurden in einer quelloffenen prototypischen Anwendung implementiert. Zur Evaluierung wird der Ansatz mit existierenden Alternativen an echten Prozessdaten eines Krankenhauses gemessen. Die generelle Anwendbarkeit in weiteren Domänen wird examplarisch an Prozessdaten aus der Logistik und dem Finanzwesen gezeigt.

On the road to success, companies need to fulfil their stakeholders’ expectations. On the road to business excellence, companies need to exceed these expectations. Oliver Wight Inc. has established a certification called Class A Business, which shows that a company is exceeding stakeholders’ expectations and that it performs in the upper quartile in its respective industry. The Class A Business certification is awarded, once a company fulfils a certification checklist with Class A Business criteria. To get to this point, a company can design their road to business excellence by following a specific set of nine Class A Behaviors. This study focuses on four of these behaviors, divided in three parts, and how they are implemented at a pharmaceutical packaging department at Roche in Kaiseraugst, Switzerland. In addition, through employee feedback potential areas of improvement are identified. For a company to understand how it is running, it has to understand its underlying processes. Once the processes are in place, a process-oriented way of thinking can change a company to make decisions based on process’ needs rather than on individual preferences. Business processes and their potential for continuous improvement were the first part of the study. The second part of the study investigated the communication of different functions in the packaging process and how the flow of information could be improved. In the third part, the usage of operational metrics in the packaging department is researched by a user feedback survey. An innovative way to visualize meeting conversations was developed in this study to make meetings more tangible for the reader. This is a newly developed and never before described method for business research colorfully showing interactions in meetings. The results are very intriguing. Simple thought business elements seem to pose larger hurdles than would be expected sometimes.

Care process monitoring is important in healthcare domains to provide precise and detailed analytics on patients, providers, and resources participating in a care process and their status. These analytics are used to keep track of whether the quality of care goals set by healthcare organizations are satisfied and ensure that legislative and organizational guidelines are followed. The complexity of care process monitoring can vary depending on whether the care process takes place in a hospital or out in the community, and it can vary depending on the complexity of the information technology infrastructure that is in place to support the care process. A Care Process Monitoring Application (CPMA) is a software application which collects and integrates data from various sources while a care process is being provided, in order to provide performance reporting of metrics that are used to measure how well the performance goals and guidelines for the care process are being met. In our research, we have studied how CPMAs are built in order to improve the quality of their engineering. The significant challenge in this context is how to engineer a CPMA so that the engineering process is repeatable, produces a CPMA of consistent high quality, and requires less time, less effort and less complexity. This thesis proposes an application framework for care process monitoring that collects and integrates events from event sources, maintains the individual and aggregate states of the care process and populates a metrics data mart to support performance reporting. Our contributions are the following: a state-based application meta-model of care process monitoring, a care process monitoring architectural pattern, and finally, a behavior driven development methodology for CPMAs based on our meta-model and architectural pattern. Our results are validated through three different case studies in which we collaborated with two different health care organizations to build and deploy CPMAs for two different care processes (one hospital-based, the other community-based) in collaboration with healthcare clinicians and researchers.

Configurable process models are integrated representations of multiple variants of a process model in a given domain, e.g. multiple variants of a shipment-to-delivery process in the logistics domain. Configurable process models provide a basis for managing variability and for enabling reuse of process models in Process-Aware Information Systems. Rather than designing process models from scratch, analysts can derive process models by configuring existing ones, thereby reusing proven practices. This thesis starts with the observation that existing approaches for capturing and managing configurable process models suffer from three shortcomings that affect their usability in practice. Firstly, configuration in existing approaches is performed manually and as such it is error-prone. In particular, analysts are left with the burden of ensuring the correctness of the individualized models. Secondly, existing approaches suffer from a lack of decision support for the selection of configuration alternatives. Consequently, stakeholders involved in the configuration of process models need to possess expertise both in the application domain and in the modeling language employed. This assumption represents an adoption obstacle in domains where users are unfamiliar with modeling notations. Finally, existing approaches for configurable process modeling are limited in scope to control-flow aspects, ignoring other equally important aspects of process models such as object flow and resource management. Following a design science research method, this thesis addresses the above shortcomings by proposing an integrated framework to manage the configuration of process models. The framework is grounded on three original and interrelated contributions: (i) a conceptual foundation for correctness-preserving configuration of process models; (ii) a questionnaire-driven approach for process model configuration, providing decision support and abstraction from modeling notations; (iii) a meta-model for configurable process models covering control-flow, data objects and resources. While the framework is language-independent, an embodiment of the framework in the context of a process modeling language used in practice is also developed in this thesis. The framework was formally defined and validated using four scenarios taken from different domains. Moreover, a comprehensive toolset was implemented to support the validation of the framework.

Submitted by paulo junior (paulo.jr@fgv.br) on 2010-03-15T18:18:35Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Flavio_Lages.pdf: 1378526 bytes, checksum: 13221a6cae43b499fb311e77e4a3e051 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by paulo junior(paulo.jr@fgv.br) on 2010-03-15T18:18:54Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Flavio_Lages.pdf: 1378526 bytes, checksum: 13221a6cae43b499fb311e77e4a3e051 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2010-03-18T12:24:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Flavio_Lages.pdf: 1378526 bytes, checksum: 13221a6cae43b499fb311e77e4a3e051 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-10-30 / Este trabalho tem como objetivo principal a avaliação da percepção dos profissionais de tecnologia de informação quanto aos benefícios atribuídos a arquitetura orientada a serviço (SOA). Em busca deste objetivo, e visando uma melhor compreensão do tema, estudos teóricos foram desenvolvidos abordando os seguintes assuntos: Arquitetura de Software, Gerenciamento de Processos de Negócio (BPM) e Arquiteturas Orientadas a Serviços (SOA). A partir do referencial teórico e de um grupo de foco – composto por seis profissionais experientes em SOA – oito hipóteses foram levantadas, representando os principais benefícios atribuídos a estas arquiteturas. Um questionário foi então preparado e, a partir dele, 66 respostas válidas foram obtidas. Os resultados foram analisados utilizando-se de estatísticas descritivas e dos testes estatísticos não-paramétricos de Wilcoxon e qui-quadrado, buscando a validação, ou rejeição, das hipóteses apresentadas. Como resultado, em suma, percebe-se que, apesar da recente adoção das SOAs pelas empresas brasileiras, parece haver uma consonância entre seus profissionais de TI quanto aos benefícios desta nova abordagem para projetos de tecnologia da informação. Evidencia-se também a grande importância de disciplinas como governança e planejamento para a garantia do sucesso na implantação de projetos baseados nestas arquiteturas. / This work has as main objective the analysis of the IT professionals’ perception about the benefits of service-oriented architectures (SOA). To achieve this goal, and looking for a better comprehension on the subject, theoretical aspects were developed on the following topics: software architecture, business process management (BPM) and service-oriented architecture (SOA). As a consequence of the theoretical development and a focus group – composed by six experienced SOA professionals – eight hypotheses were raised, representing the main benefits attributed to these architectures. A survey was prepared and 66 valid answers were obtained. The results were analyzed using statistical tests (Wilcoxon and chi square) and descriptive statistics, looking for the proof, or rejection, of the presented hypotheses. As result, in short, it is noticed that, in spite of the recent adoption of SOA in the Brazilian market, its benefits seem to be clear for the IT professionals. Disciplines like governance and planning were presented by participants as very important issues for a well-succeed SOA.

Submitted by Marcia Bacha (marcia.bacha@fgv.br) on 2011-09-28T17:31:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação_Claudete Terezinha Trapp.pdf: 1331550 bytes, checksum: 7cb68c7f0e6a8a98248b96cee48e3025 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marcia Bacha (marcia.bacha@fgv.br) on 2011-09-28T17:32:45Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação_Claudete Terezinha Trapp.pdf: 1331550 bytes, checksum: 7cb68c7f0e6a8a98248b96cee48e3025 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marcia Bacha (marcia.bacha@fgv.br) on 2011-09-28T17:32:54Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação_Claudete Terezinha Trapp.pdf: 1331550 bytes, checksum: 7cb68c7f0e6a8a98248b96cee48e3025 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2011-09-28T17:33:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação_Claudete Terezinha Trapp.pdf: 1331550 bytes, checksum: 7cb68c7f0e6a8a98248b96cee48e3025 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / This study aimed to identify how the specific characteristics of public organizations influences the implementation of Business Process Management in its scope. This study was conducted under a theoretical analysis in order to delineate especial issues that are relevant to understand the differences between the public and private administrations and the impact of that difference both in the implementation of Business Process Management for those organizations, and to support the development of a set of structured interviews. From this point, a field survey was done by interviewing eight Brazilian experts on Business Process Management who have highlighted academic status on the subject, are a staff member of companies or institutions that work with Business Process Management, who works as a Business Process Management consultant and/or are a Certified Business Process Professional, as well as experience in implementation of Process Management in organizations of Public Federal Direct Administration. The results of those interviews were analyzed, consolidated and examined by the authors considered as theoretical references. In the perception of the interviewed experts, the lower maturity shown by the public organizations, related to the measurement and monitoring of business process performance undermines the results that can be achieved by the adoption of Business Process Management and consequently, people do not realize the gains that they can get through it, hindering the ability to mobilize them and committing them to the implementation of Business Process Management. Moreover, the posture and profile of its own servers, along with other specifics of public organizations - stability of the public employees, lack of recognition and reward mechanisms and performance evaluation criteria, culture of excessive documentation and control and the dysfunctions of bureaucracy and also discontinuity in management - do not contribute to the engagement and motivation to the management of people and may hinder the identification and implementation of continuous improvements in the organizational processes, intrinsic activity of Business Process Management. / Este estudo objetivou identificar de que forma as especificidades das organizações públicas influenciam a implementação da Gestão de Processos em seu âmbito. Para isso foi realizada uma análise de referenciais teóricos com a finalidade de delinear, principalmente, questões relevantes para entender as diferenças entre a administração pública e a privada e que impactam na implementação da Gestão de Processos naquelas organizações, e de subsidiar a elaboração de um roteiro de entrevistas estruturado. A partir dessa etapa, foi efetuada uma pesquisa de campo constituída por oito entrevistas com especialistas brasileiros de destaque no mundo acadêmico nos quadros de empresas ou instituições que atuam com Gestão por Processos, em consultorias nessa área e/ou profissionais com certificação internacional em processos, bem como com experiência na implantação da Gestão de Processos em organizações da Administração Pública Direta Federal. O resultado dessas entrevistas foi analisado, consolidado e examinado à luz da posição dos autores do referencial teórico. Na percepção dos especialistas consultados nesta pesquisa, a menor maturidade apresentada pelas organizações públicas, relacionada à medição de resultados e ao acompanhamento do desempenho, prejudica a tangilibilização dos resultados decorrentes da adoção da Gestão de Processos. Em consequência, as pessoas envolvidas têm dificuldade em perceber os ganhos que podem dela obter, situação que complica sobremaneira a possibilidade de movimentos de mobilização e o próprio comprometimento para a implementação da Gestão de Processos. Além disso, os entrevistados consideram que a postura e o perfil dos servidores públicos, aliados a outras especificidades das organizações públicas - tais como estabilidade na carreira; falta de mecanismos de reconhecimento e recompensa e de avaliação de desempenho criteriosa; cultura de documentação e controle excessivos e as disfunções da burocracia; e a descontinuidade na gestão devido a influências políticas - também podem prejudicar o engajamento, a motivação das pessoas para essa gestão e a identificação e implementação de melhorias contínuas nos processos organizacionais, atividades intrínsecas da Gestão de Processos.