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Empirical research strategies are undisputedly of paramount importance to rigorous and relevant IS research. Employed practices of empirical research in Information Systems, however, are still considered to be problematic. One related problem in this context is the lack of rigorously developed...
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As process management projects have increased in size due to globalised and company-wide initiatives, a corresponding growth in the size of process modeling projects can be observed. Despite advances in languages, tools and methodologies, several aspects of these projects have been largely...
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ontology as a benchmark for evaluations and comparisons of modeling techniques. This paper proposes a research model to guide … paper demonstrates the application of this model for the purpose of analyzing the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN … model characterizes the different steps in such a research project, while the BPMN analysis project emphasizes the …
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Modern business process modeling languages such as BPMN or EPC provide users with more constructs to represent real … modeling constructs. Using a well-established ontology-based theory of representation, we analyze how this voluntary … two notation sets of the popular language BPMN – the core and full set. Our findings indicate that users are willing to …
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investigating the uptake and user acceptance of BPMN by analysts world-wide. This personal viewpoint offers a number of implications … on the use of BPMN. While details on research execution are mostly omitted, references are provided to guide the … BPMN by process modelers world-wide. Amongst others, it is shown that the high interest in BPMN has created a massive …
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the ontological deficiencies of process modeling with the industry standard Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN). We … perform an analysis of BPMN using a theory of ontological expressiveness. Through a series of semi-structured interviews with … BPMN adopters we explore empirically the actual use of this grammar. Nine ontological deficiencies related to the practice …
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Many business process modeling techniques have been proposed over the last decades, creating a demand for theory to assist in the comparison and evaluation of these techniques. A widely established way of determining the effectiveness and efficiency of modeling techniques is by way of...
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Organizations invest substantial resources in Enterprise Systems (ES) expecting positive outcomes for the organization and its functions. Implementing an ES is a lengthy and costly undertaking, with general upheaval for many of the organizations. Many organizations therefore are seriously...
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This paper investigates four salient characteristics of IS-success models that are largely ignored in prior literature. Using data gathered from 600 responses, this study establishes the importance of (1) completeness of the model dimensions and measures, (2) mutual exclusivity of the model...
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Conceptual modeling is the process of building a representation of selected phenomena in a problem domain for the purpose of understanding and communication among stakeholders (Wand and Weber 2002) in the process of information systems analysis and design. A crucial element in the context of...
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