A Gestão de Processos de Negócio é uma abordagem voltada a processos que, em um contexto de alta complexidade, viabiliza a integração, inovação e flexibilidade nas Organizações. Para a implementação desta abordagem nas empresas, apresenta-se como fundamental o Diagnóstico de Processos, pois o entendimento pleno do processo analisado permite resultados mais consistentes e maior alinhamento deste com a estratégia organizacional, otimizando o atendimento ao mercado, o custo operacional e a qualidade dos produtos e serviços. Contudo, a implementação do diagnóstico mostra-se um desafio para as Organizações, apresentando lacunas na literatura relacionados à temática de Diagnóstico de Processos, sob a abordagem de Gestão de Processos. Existe ainda a lacuna diante da proposta de identificar métodos de aplicação deste diagnóstico com técnicas complementares, capazes de contemplar as dimensões de processo. Tendo em vista estas lacunas, este estudo objetivou desenvolver um método de diagnóstico de processos baseado em técnicas complementares, possibilitando a identificação de fatores e atividades essenciais para a aplicação de um diagnóstico efetivo. Foram selecionadas duas técnicas de diagnóstico de processos: Mapeamento de Processos e Árvore da Realidade Atual. O Mapeamento de Processos é uma técnica que permite resultados robustos frente à necessidade de entendimento do fluxo de atividades e informações. A Árvore da Realidade Atual não permite resultados tão consistentes nestes fluxos, porém, é a técnica que proporciona melhor entendimento das dimensões do processo, de forma holística. Para verificar a efetividade deste método de diagnóstico, propôs-se uma pesquisa-ação em uma unidade da maior universidade da América Latina. A pesquisa-ação foi selecionada pela possibilidade de melhoria no método decorrente da aplicação do mesmo; para tanto, foram realizados três ciclos de aplicação, considerando fatores como a satisfação do grupo de trabalho, para medir a eficiência e a eficácia do método, e a satisfação da Organização, para medir a eficácia do mesmo. A seleção da instituição de ensino superior como local de pesquisa foi influenciada pela relevância desta referida universidade no cenário mundial, sendo seus resultados parâmetros para replicação em outras Organizações. Os resultados dos ciclos aplicados permitiram identificar quais são os fatores que influenciaram, de forma significativa, o Diagnóstico de Processos. Estes resultados auxiliam a referida universidade a entender seus processos, tal como prosseguir com outras análises. Auxiliam ainda a sociedade, por apresentar um método de diagnóstico, desenvolvido em uma universidade, que pode ser observado por duas perspectivas: (i) a aplicação do método formulado; ou, (ii) a possibilidade de um desenvolvimento customizado deste. Este estudo ainda pode embasar hipóteses em futuros estudos voltados a generalizar tais descobertas. / The Business Process Management is an approach processes focused that, in a context of high complexity, enables the integration, flexibility and innovation in organizations. To implement this approach in business, Process Diagnosis is fundamental for a full understanding of the analyzed process, allowing more consistent results and aligning with the organizational strategy, optimizing service to the market, the operating cost and quality of products and services. However, the implementation of this diagnosis is a challenge for organizations, because of the lack of studies in the literature related to Process Diagnosis, under the approach of Business Process Management. There is another gap to identify applications methods of this diagnosis with complementary techniques. Given these shortcomings, this study aimed to develop a diagnostic process method based on complementary techniques, enabling the identification of factors and activities essential for the implementation of an effective diagnosis. Two techniques were selected for the process diagnosis: Process Modeling and the Current Reality Tree. The Process Modeling is a technique that enables robust results to the necessity of understanding the activities and information flows. The Current Reality Tree does not allow such consistent results in these flows, however, is a technique that provides better understanding of the all dimensions of the process holistically. To verify the effectiveness of this method, it proposes an action research on the biggest university in Latin America. Action research was selected by the possibility of improvement in the method resulting from application of this. Therefore, there were three cycles of application, considering factors such as the satisfaction of the working group, to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of the method, and the satisfaction of organization, to measure the effectiveness of it. The selection of this higher education institution as a place of research was influenced by the relevance of that university on the world stage, and its results are parameters for replication in another organization. The results of the applied cycles allowed identifying what are the factors that influenced significantly the Process Diagnosis. These results help the university to understand that analyzed processes. Still help society by presenting a diagnostic method, developed in a university, which can be observed by two perspectives: (i) the application of the method formulated, or (ii) the possibility of development of this custom. This study can still to base hypotheses for future studies aimed to generalize these findings.

Durant l’exploitation d’une ligne de métro, l’opérateur de supervision est responsable de l’exécution de procédures pour la gestion des incidents. Cependant, lors de l’occurrence combinée d’incidents, les procédures utilisées peuvent se retrouver en concurrence. Dans ce cas, des situations ne garantissant pas la sécurité des personnes existent et un accident peut se déclencher. La démarche d’étude des procédures intègre tout d’abord leur représentation graphique avec la notation BPMN. Ces modèles de procédure, compréhensibles et accessibles, constituent ainsi une base de connaissances pour les industriels concernés. Ces modèles sont ensuite interprétés sous forme de réseaux de Petri pour ajouter une dynamique au système étudié. La notion de contrôlabilité et l’influence du contexte d’exécution sont alors introduites dans l’étude de procédures de gestion d’incident. Afin d’assurer la sécurité des personnes, des états interdits sont définis et identifiés parmi l’ensemble des états accessibles par l’application de la théorie du contrôle par supervision. Ces états interdits se caractérisent de manière originale : suivant leur inclusion dans un ensemble d’états particuliers mais également suivant la contrôlabilité de leurs transitions sortantes. Cette caractérisation innovante s’accompagne des algorithmes permettant de déterminer et d’éviter les états interdits. Afin d’orienter l’opérateur de supervision dans les actions à exécuter lors d’incidents combinés, des critères de différenciation des trajectoires admissibles évitant les états interdits sont également définis. Les résultats obtenus permettent de proposer une assistance à l’opérateur de supervision sous forme d’alertes et de conseils. Cette étude se base sur le système de supervision ATS développé par Thales et sur les procédures de gestion d’incident de l’un de leurs clients, la RATP. Un prototype de fonctionnalité d’aide à l’opérateur pour la gestion des incidents reposant sur le savoir-faire client a ainsi pu être intégré au logiciel de Thales. / During metro line operations, the supervision operator is responsible for the procedures’ execution when referring to incidents management. However, when combined incidents occur, procedures may be competing. In this particular case, situations which do not ensure people’s safety exist and an accident might happen. Firstly, the approach of studying these procedures integrates their graphical representation with the BPMN notation. These procedures’ models, understandable and accessible, provide a significant amount of knowledge for industrials in this area. Secondly, these models are performed as Petri nets to add dynamic to the system of interest. That is why, the notion of controllability and the influence of the execution context are introduced in the study of incidents management procedures. To ensure people’s safety, forbidden states are defined and identified among the states space with the supervisory control theory. These states are characterized in an original way : depending on their inclusion in a set of states but also depending on the controllability of their outgoing transitions. In addition to this innovative characterization, algorithms allow to determine and to avoid forbidden states. Criteria distinguish the admissible sequences which avoid forbidden states. These differentiation criteria are defined to steer the supervision operator through the actions he has to execute when combined incidents occur. Results allow us to provide assistance to the supervision operator with warnings and advice. This study is based on ATS supervision system developed by Thales and one of their customers’ incidents management procedures, the RATP. A prototype of operator support functionality for incidents management based on customer know-how has been implemented into Thales software.

Syftet med uppsatsen är att identifiera vilka uppfattningar som har identifierats efter införandet av RPA i förhållande till de förväntningar som fanns hos medarbetarna. För att undersöka det har följande frågeställning utformats; vilka skillnader, om några, finns mellan medarbetarnas uppfattningar efter införandet och deras förväntningar före? Vilka uppfattningar har medarbetarna om RPA-s nytta? och vilka lärdomar kan man ta med sig till framtida RPA-projekt? Undersökningen gjordes genom en kvalitativ datainsamlingsmetod där det förekom att undersökningsdeltagarna fick svara på formulär som sedan följdes upp med en form av diskussion med personen i fråga. Intervjufrågorna är byggda på den analysmodell som är gjord utifrån den litteratur som ligger till grund för mitt arbete. I undersökningen deltog det fem personer som på något sätt kommer i regelbunden kontakt med RPA på sin arbetsplats. Resultatet visar att undersökningsdeltagarna, inför införandet, var positiva till att RPA skulle införas, men också att de var positiva till RPA efter införandet. Resultatet visar också att undersökningsdeltagarna ser värdet i att använda RPA. Slutsatserna från undersökningen visar att de förväntningarna som medarbetarna har på RPA, inte har förändrats efter att RPA har införts. Undersökningsdeltagarna var positiva före införandet och efter införandet är de fortsatt positiva. En annan slutsats visar att undersökningsdeltagarnas uppfattningar om RPA är positiva. Undersökningsdeltagarna ser att RPA tar bort en viss arbetsbelastning. Den sista slutsatsen visar att tydlig och bra information från ledningen och att användarmedverkan krävs för att lyckas bra med kommande projekt

This thesis engages in process modelling and description of selected business processes which are underway in the department of Economy and Operation of the Czech TV, in Television studio in Brno. The process models are created using the CASE tool Adonis. The theoretical part is focused on clarifying important concepts, methodologies and tools in the process management. In the analytical part, the selected processes are thoroughly described and graphically illustrated. The proposal part of the thesis highlights the improvement of selected business processes and assesses their effectiveness.

Die Standardisierung von Geschäftsprozessen ist ein innovativer Ansatz zur Steigerung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Unternehmen. Die vorliegende Arbeit hat dazu die Entwicklung einer Methode zum Gegenstand. Dabei wird zunächst ein Instrument entwickelt, mit dessen Hilfe Prozesse auf Standardisierbarkeit überprüft werden können. Standardisierbare Prozesse werden im Anschluss auf elementarer Ebene auf Vielfalt untersucht, mit dem Ziel ausschließlich positive Vielfalt in Prozessen zuzulassen. Die entwickelten Instrumente und erforderlichen Aktivitäten zur Standardisierung von Prozessen werden in Form von Methodenfragmenten beschrieben und stellen in der Summe die Methode zur Prozessstandardisierung dar.

Purpose – Due to faster innovation cycles and competitive markets, current methods for implementing and adapting business processes can not keep pace with changing requirements and cause BPM solutions to falls short of business needs. The purpose of this paper is to propose a new approach for implementing an agile BPM methodology by substituting the plan-build-run approach with an incremental prototype-based model, removing intermediaries from the time critical path of business process evolution, and empowering end users to change business processes at runtime by manipulating process artefacts. Design/methodology/approach – Based on interviews with customers and stakeholders and our experience in implementing complex BPM solutions in SMEs, we propose key concepts for an agile BPM approach and derive basic requirements for implementing a BPM system that allows users to redefine business processes during their execution. This analysis is supplemented by a brief overview of current research trends in modelling and implementing agile BPM. Originality/value – All existing solutions examined by our team imply a separate modelling step by users or process managers. The designed key concepts enable users to implicitly model processes without interrupting day to day operations. Our approach enables organisations to introduce business process management in areas where agility is very important (e.g. product development) or to increase operational agility in areas with established BPM. Practical implications – An agile BPM solution can give organisations the flexibility they need to react quickly to changing markets and customer needs. We want to help them to introduce standardization and efficiency without losing agility. In areas where classical BPM is in place, our approach can increase the adaptation rate of process changes. In the areas of knowledge workers with a high level of agility, our approach can increase efficiency by supporting knowledge sharing.

Inom flera svenska statliga myndigheter har det processbaserade arbetssättet blivit en metod för att öka effektiviteten inom organisationer. Migrationsverket, en myndighet som under mitten av 2010-talet tog emot ett rekordstort antal skyddssökande under den stora flyktingkrisen, har på senare tid börjat att implementera ett nytt processbaserat arbetssätt inom asylprövningen kallat ”Asyl 360”. Denna fallstudie undersöker hur medarbetarna på en av de asylprövningsenheter som implementerat Asyl 360 upplever att det nya processbaserade arbetssättet påverkat dem. Den ämnar också att, med hjälp av en egenutvecklad kontextanpassad processmognadsmodell, undersöka vilken processmognadsnivå den undersökta asylprövningsenheten befinner sig på. Den metodologiska inriktningen av studien är en kvalitativ fallstudie där den insamlade datan har inhämtats genom intervjuer med medarbetare på den undersökta organisationen. Resultatet och analysen av studien visar dels vilken processmognadsnivå organisationen befinner sig på, men även en utvärdering av den egenutvecklade kontextanpassade processmognadsmodellens funktionalitet / Within several Swedish government agencies, the process-based approach has become a method for increasing efficiency within the organizations. The Swedish Migration Agency, an agency that received a record number of refugee applicants during the great refugee crisis in the mid-2010s, has recently begun to implement a new process-based approach in the asylum field called "Asyl 360". This case study examines how the employees at one of the units that implemented Asylum 360 feels that the new process-based working method has affected them. It also intends to investigate what process maturity level the investigated asylum review unit is at, with the help of a self-developed, context-adapted process maturity model. The methodological focus of the study is a qualitative case study where the collected data has been collected through interviews with employees of the researched organization. The result and analysis of the study shows what level of process maturity the studied organization is currently on. It also evaluates the functionality of the self-developed, context-adapted process maturity model / <p>2020-06-26</p>

With development and impact of ICT, the method of work in many organizations has been becoming more collaborative and communicative, under which a number of organizations start to take corresponding strategies to achieve business goals and create more values. Managing Business Process is an effective and efficient way to improve productivity and performance of business activities from an organizational level. Business Process model, as a representation of Business Process, provides a big picture of Business Process, allowing organizations to acquire understanding on logical relationships among different business activities and to improve Business Process by various approaches. This study discusses the application of Business Process models on weakness identification which is related to the problem of excess inventory in supply chain with a qualitative method. It adopts three Business Process Modelling techniques to build Business Process models for a planning team involved with demand and supply planning, where four experts from the team participate in interview. The models are analyzed according to selected weakness patterns in order to identify the process weaknesses and link them with the causes of excess inventory. The result of this study gives a positive answer, which means the Business Process Models are capable to identify causes for the concrete problem of excess inventory by identifying process weaknesses.

Utvecklingen inom informationssystem har lett till att allt fler verksamhet villdigitalisera deras arbetsprocesser. Det växande mobila användandet av EnterpriseResource Planning (ERP) på enheter såsom smartphones, tablets och handdatorer harlett till att verksamheter ställer större krav på sina system och leverantörer av dessa.Framtidens ERPsystemmåste fungera mobilt och underlätta arbetet för de anställdaistället för att vara ännu ett ITsystemsom ska lösa organisationens alla utmaningar.Denna fallstudie är gjord hos en grossistverksamhet i Skåne som var mitt iimplementationen av sitt ERPsystem,Microsoft Dynamics. Denna studie harundersökt hur arbetet med verksamhetens affärsprocesser såg ut före och underimplementationen av det nya systemet. Bakgrunden till fallstudien var att undersökaom det fanns korrelation mellan hur väl affärsprocesserna var evaluerade, anpassadeoch hur vällyckad verksamhetens ERPimplementationblev. Fallstudien villundersöka hur processmodellering och Business Process Management (BPM) kanstödja denna slags implementation av mobila ERPsystem.Verksamheten i studien är ett mellanstort säljochdistributionsföretag med kontor på4 svenska orter. Verksamheten påbörjade 2015 en digitalisering av helaorganisationen. ITsystemeti bestod då av flera olika system som anpassats underlängre tid för att integrera med varandra och dela information precis efterorganisationens önskan. Som en del av implementationen valde de att använda ettBusiness Process Modeling verktyg för att introducera och träna användarna avprocesserna i det nya systemet. Implementationsfasen i projektet började i februari2017 och i februari 2019 har verksamheten fortfarande inte fastställt ett Golivedatum.. Medeltiden för en ERPimplementationär 17,4 månader [5]. Då verksamhetenGolivedatum har flyttats räknas det nu som att verksamhetens implementation ärförsenade och över medeltiden.Arbetet med processerna före själva projektstart uppfattas som bristfälligt utifrån BPMdras slutsatsen att förseningen av “Go livedatumet”delvis beror det på att företagetoch organisationen inte har analyserat sina egna processer och har förlitat sig förmycket på att konsultbolaget och RapidValue BPM skulle sköta inlärning ochimplementationen. / The development in information systems has led to an increasing number ofbusinesses wishing to digitize their work processes. The growing mobile use ofEnterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems on devices such as smartphones andtablets has led businesses to place greater demands on their information systems andsuppliers of these. ERP system in the future must be able to function mobile andfacilitate the work for the employees instead of being another IT system that will solvethe organisation's all challenges.This case study was made at a wholesale company in Skåne, which was in the midstof an ERP implementation with Microsoft Dynamics. This study has investigated howthe work with business processes looked before and during the implementation of thenew system. The background to the case study was to investigate whether there wereany correlation between how well the business processes were evaluated, adapted andhow successful the business's ERP implementation was. The case study aims toinvestigate how process modeling and Business Process Management (BPM) cansupport this kind of implementation of mobile ERP systems.The activity in the study is a mediumsizedsales and distribution company withoffices in 4 Swedish locations. In 2015, the business began digitizing the entireorganization. The IT system consisted of several different systems that had beenadapted over time to fit the needs of the organisation. As part of the implementation,they chose to use a Business Process Modeling tool to introduce the system and trainthe users of the processes in the new system. The implementation phase of the projectbegan in February 2017 and in February 2019 the business still has not set a Golivedate. The average time for an ERP implementation is 17.4 months [5]. Since theGolivedate business has been moved, it is now considered that the operation'simplementation is delayed and over the average time.The work on the processes before the actual start of the project is perceived asinadequate from BPM, the conclusion is drawn that the delay of the "Go live date" ispartly due to the fact that the company and the organization have not analyzed theirown processes and have relied too much on the consulting company and RapidValueBPM to handle learning and implementation.

De plus en plus les organisations adoptent les systèmes d'informations sensibles aux processus basés sur Cloud en tant qu'un environnement pour gérer et exécuter des processus dans le Cloud dans l'objectif de partager et de déployer leurs applications de manière optimale. Cela est particulièrement vrai pour les grandes organisations ayant des succursales opérant dans des différentes régions avec des processus considérablement similaires. Telles organisations doivent soutenir de nombreuses variantes du même processus en raison de la culture locale de leurs succursales, de leurs règlements, etc. Cependant, le développement d'une nouvelle variante de processus à partir de zéro est sujet à l'erreur et peut prendre beaucoup du temps. Motivés par le paradigme "la conception par la réutilisation", les succursales peuvent collaborer pour développer de nouvelles variantes de processus en apprenant de leurs processus similaires. Ces processus sont souvent hétérogènes, ce qui empêche une interopérabilité facile et dynamique entre les différentes succursales. Une variante de processus est un ajustement d'un modèle de processus afin de s'adapter d'une façon flexible aux besoins spécifiques. De nombreuses recherches dans les universités et les industries visent à faciliter la conception des variantes de processus. Plusieurs approches ont été développées pour aider les concepteurs de processus en recherchant des modèles de processus métier similaires ou en utilisant des modèles de référence. Cependant, ces approches sont lourdes, longues et sujettes à des erreurs. De même, telles approches recommandent des modèles de processus pas pratiques pour les concepteurs de processus qui ont besoin d'ajuster une partie spécifique d'un modèle de processus. En fait, les concepteurs de processus peuvent mieux développer des variantes de processus ayant une approche qui recommande un ensemble bien défini d'activités à partir d'un modèle de processus défini comme un fragment de processus. Les grandes organisations multi-sites exécutent les variantes de processus BP dans l'environnement Cloud pour optimiser le déploiement et partager les ressources communes. Cependant, ces ressources Cloud peuvent être décrites en utilisant des différents standards de description des ressources Cloud ce qui empêche l'interopérabilité entre les différentes succursales. Dans cette thèse, nous abordons les limites citées ci-dessus en proposant une approche basée sur les ontologies pour peupler sémantiquement une base de connaissance commune de processus et de ressources Cloud, ce qui permet une interopérabilité entre les succursales de l'organisation. Nous construisons notre base de connaissance en étendant les ontologies existantes. Ensuite, nous proposons une approche pour exploiter cette base de connaissances afin de supporter le développement des variantes BP. De plus, nous adoptons un algorithme génétique pour allouer d'une manière optimale les ressources Cloud aux BPs. Pour valider notre approche, nous développons deux preuves de concepts et effectuons des expériences sur des ensembles de données réels. Les résultats expérimentaux montrent que notre approche est réalisable et précise dans des cas d'utilisation réels / More and more organizations are adopting cloud-based Process-Aware Information Systems (PAIS) to manage and execute processes in the cloud as an environment to optimally share and deploy their applications. This is especially true for large organizations having branches operating in different regions with a considerable amount of similar processes. Such organizations need to support many variants of the same process due to their branches' local culture, regulations, etc. However, developing new process variant from scratch is error-prone and time consuming. Motivated by the "Design by Reuse" paradigm, branches may collaborate to develop new process variants by learning from their similar processes. These processes are often heterogeneous which prevents an easy and dynamic interoperability between different branches. A process variant is an adjustment of a process model in order to flexibly adapt to specific needs. Many researches in both academics and industry are aiming to facilitate the design of process variants. Several approaches have been developed to assist process designers by searching for similar business process models or using reference models. However, these approaches are cumbersome, time-consuming and error-prone. Likewise, such approaches recommend entire process models which are not handy for process designers who need to adjust a specific part of a process model. In fact, process designers can better develop process variants having an approach that recommends a well-selected set of activities from a process model, referred to as process fragment. Large organizations with multiple branches execute BP variants in the cloud as environment to optimally deploy and share common resources. However, these cloud resources may be described using different cloud resources description standards which prevent the interoperability between different branches. In this thesis, we address the above shortcomings by proposing an ontology-based approach to semantically populate a common knowledge base of processes and cloud resources and thus enable interoperability between organization's branches. We construct our knowledge base built by extending existing ontologies. We thereafter propose an approach to mine such knowledge base to assist the development of BP variants. Furthermore, we adopt a genetic algorithm to optimally allocate cloud resources to BPs. To validate our approach, we develop two proof of concepts and perform experiments on real datasets. Experimental results show that our approach is feasible and accurate in real use-cases