Business Process Blueprinting A Method for Customer-Oriented Busines

Though customer orientation is recommended in Business Process Management, current modeling methods still have a strong focus on the company’s processes. To ensure a long-lasting requirement of a firm’s service, one should consider the customer activities

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Michael Hewing

Business Process Blueprinting A Method for Customer-Oriented Business Process Modeling

Michael Hewing Berlin, Germany

Dissertation Freie Universität Berlin, 2013 D 188 Printing subsidy by the Ernst Reuter Foundation, Freie Universität Berlin

ISBN 978-3-658-03728-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-658-03729-1

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Dedicated to my parents

Foreword The approach to understand companies as complex systems of business processes has become a central theme of Information Systems and a major instrument to reflect and solve business challenges. Process models are the fundaments of Business Process Management and crucial to understand, analyze and design processes. Therefore it is quite surprising and astonishing, that the processes of the customer are just sparely considered in science and practice. Although customer orientation is seen as one of the most essential aspects