Purpose – Maturity models are a prospering approach to improving a company's processes and business process management (BPM) capabilities. In fact, the number of corresponding maturity models is so high that practitioners and scholars run the risk of losing track. This paper therefore aims to...

There is no doubt that at least since the 1990s process orientation has evolved into one of the central paradigms of organizational design. Since then, all process management subtasks have matured. Process management decisions, however, lack economic foundation. They are usually based on...

Purpose – This paper summarizes typical pitfalls as they can be observed in larger process modeling projects. Design/methodology/approach – The identified pitfalls have been derived from a series of focus groups and semi‐structured interviews with business process analysts and managers of...

Purpose – This second part of the paper summarizes typical pitfalls as they can be observed in larger process modeling projects. Design/methodology/approach – The identified pitfalls have been derived from a series of focus groups and semi‐structured interviews with business process...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss results from the first empirical study on the status and the success factors of Six Sigma in the financial services sector. Design/methodology/approach – An empirical study using a comprehensive and tested survey instrument has...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a method for identifying business process-relevant contextual information that is likely to impact on the process goal. The ORGANON method describes a semi-structured procedural guide alongside with a set of criteria and a matrix for analyzing...