S-BPM ONE – Setting the Stage for Subject-Oriented Business Process Management: First International Workshop, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 22, 2009. Revised Selected Papers

This volume contains a selection of papers from the First Workshop on Subject- Oriented Business Process Management (S-BPM ONE). Establishing a multi- and cross-disciplinary interchange of underyling and applied concepts, successful appli- tion studies, and innovative development ideas, the workshop emphasized the pro- tive realization of role- or actor-oriented modeling on the basis of exchanging m- sages when accomplishing tasks. The workshop was organized as a forum for the discussion of foundations, achievements, reflections, and further developments. In this way, its contributions not only addressed the current state of the art, but also the various lines of research and development, either running or planned. The state of the art is reflected in terms of concepts, modeling language, and tool features on the one hand. On the other hand, it is reflected through the discussion of industrial case studies. These indicate the current practice when implementing the subject-oriented BPM paradigm in industrial settings. By challenging conceptual foundations they also allow us to define a common ground for future developments in research and practice. The S-BPM ONE contributions focus on challenges arising from the evolution of service-oriented architectures and the need for more flexible business organizations. The latter require coherent and adaptive representation and processing techniques for business process modeling and execution. Corresponding technologies have to be grounded in theories of computer science, in order to provide an adequate infrastr- ture for thorough BPM including technology-enhanced change management. Subject Title Page 2 Foreword 5 Table of Contents 8 Part I - Visionary Engagements 9 The Relevance of Management of Business Processes and Orchestration 10 Introduction 10 European ICT Strategy 2020 10 Future Internet 12 The Role of Business Process Management in the Future Internet 13 Research Vision 14 Bring BPM into the Cloud 14 Make BPM Lightweight 15 Make BPM Collaborative 15 Make BPM a Commodity 15 BPM&SI – The Big Picture 16 Examples 16 SAP Research Core Process 17 Conclusive Findings 19 The Power of ‘As-Is’ Processes 20 Why S-BPM? 20 The Economical Rationale 20 The Psychological Rationale 25 The Technological Rationale 26 The Evolutionary Rationale 27 Conclusive Summary 29 References 30 The Method behind Subject Orientation – The MissingLink between Individuals and Machines in Regard to Truth 31 About Truth 31 References 40 Establishing an Informed S-BPM Community 41 Introduction 41 The S-BPM Community – A Shared Learning Experience 42 Basic Idea 42 S-BPM WIKI 45 S-BPM.EDU 46 Roadmap of Developments 53 Conclusions 53 References 54 Business Process Management – S-BPM a New Paradigm for Competitive Advantage? 55 Why Do We eed Business Process Management? 55 Motivation for Business Process Management 55 Business Processes and Information Technology 57 New Insights and Mobile Processes 60 Subject- riented Business Process Management (S-BPM) 61 S-BPM in Education and Research 63 Education 63 Research 68 Unified Communications and Human Interaction Management 72 Conclusion and Future Work 74 References 75 Application of Subject-Oriented Modeling in Automatic Service Composition 78 Introduction 78 Current Issues in BPM 79 Lack of Process Governance 80 One-Shot Transformations 80 ``Outlook Processes'' 80 Process Modeling 81 Requirements 81 Subject-Oriented Modeling 82 PASS 82 PASS Extensions 82 Automatic Service Composition 82 Modeling 84 Discovery and Composition 85 Verification 85 Refinement 86 Deployment 86 Related Work 86 Conclusion 87 References 88 Part II - Essential Capabilities 90 What Is S-BPM? 91 Introduction 91 Properties of BPM 2.0 92 Aspects of BPM 2.0 92 Subject, Predicate and Object in Natural Languages meet BPM 94 Natural Languages 94 Business Processes 94 Business Processes and Grammar 95 Objects 95 Concurrency of Subjects 95 Theory of Communication and Concurrency 95 Combining the Constituents 96 Subject-Oriented BPM (S-BPM) 96 Other Meanings of the Term Subject 96 BPM Modeling Approaches 97 Subjects Define the Granularity of the Actions in Business Processes 98 S-BPM Modeling Language 100 Organizational and Technical Implementation 111 Summary and Conclusions 111 References 111 Case Study: The Process Portal – Process-as-a-Service Central Platform for Work-, Information- and Knowledge Processes in the Company 113 Motivation 113 Business Requirements to Process Portals 114 Implementation Issues 115 SOB Lifecycle 116 Examples 117 S-BPM with CMP 118 Conclusions 119 References 119 Case Study: AST Order Control Processing 121 Introduction 121 The Order-Control Process 121 The Order-Control Process Project 122 Why Use the jCOM1 Approach? 123 Order Processing Means Communication 124 Implementation Experiences 124 Supporting the Order-Control Process 124 Implementation 125 Lessons Learned 126 Part III - Penetration Perspectives 127 Potential Building Blocks of S-BPM 128 Introduction 128 How to Establish S-BPM 128 T1 – S-BPM Notation 130 T2 – S-BPM Architecture 131 T3 – S-BPM Reference Implementation 132 C1 – S-BPM Publication Series 133 C2 – S-BPM ONE Conference 133 C3 – S-BPM Community Process 134 M1 – S-BPM Patterns 134 M2 – S-BPM Process Lifecycle 135 M3 – S-BPM Maturity Levels 136 Conclusive Summary 139 References 140 Quo Vadis, S-BPM? The First World-Café on S-BPM Developments 141 Introduction 141 S-BPM World Café One: Conversation Matters 142 S-BPM Education = Empowerment of Users 145 S-BPM Standardization: What and How? 146 Business Models for S-BPM-Based Organization Development 148 Embodying Organizational Culture in S-BPM 149 Conclusive Summary 150 References 152 Author Index 153 Front Matter....Pages - Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Relevance of Management of Business Processes and Orchestration....Pages 3-12 The Power of ‘As-Is’ Processes....Pages 13-23 The Method behind Subject Orientation – The Missing Link between Individuals and Machines in Regard to Truth....Pages 24-33 Establishing an Informed S-BPM Community....Pages 34-47 Business Process Management — S-BPM a New Paradigm for Competitive Advantage?....Pages 48-70 Application of Subject-Oriented Modeling in Automatic Service Composition....Pages 71-82 Front Matter....Pages 83-83 What Is S-BPM?....Pages 85-106 Case Study: The Process Portal – Process-as-a-Service Central Platform for Work-, Information- and Knowledge Processes in the Company....Pages 107-114 Case Study: AST Order Control Processing....Pages 115-120 Front Matter....Pages 121-121 Potential Building Blocks of S-BPM....Pages 123-135 Quo Vadis, S-BPM? The First World-Café on S-BPM Developments....Pages 136-147 Back Matter....Pages - The CCIS series is devoted to the publication of proceedings of computer science conferences. Its aim is to efficiently disseminate original research results in informatics in printed and electronic form. While the focus is on publication of peer-reviewed full papers presenting mature work, inclusion of reviewed short papers and abstracts reporting on work in progress is welcome, too. Besides globally relevant meetings with internationally representative program committees guaranteeing a strict peer-reviewing and paper selection process, conferences run by societies or of high regional or national relevance are considered for publication as well