Improve Performance Management in Flexible Business Processes

Abstract

The performance of business processes is evaluated and mon- itored with the aim of identifying whether strategic and operational goals are being achieved. Most approaches about performance measurement have been de ned over traditional highly repetitive and well-structured processes. However, cur- rent organizational and business needs have encouraged the appearance of customizable processes to manage collections of process variants derived from a process, and loosely speci- ed processes to manage non-repeatable and unpredictable processes. However, current techniques of performance mea- surement have not evolved to the same pace that business processes, thus generating a gap between processes and the measurement of their performance. The thesis introduced in this paper, is focused on enhancing the performance mea- surement of business processes by means of the improvement of existing techniques for the de nition of process perfor- mance indicators and their applicability to different types of processes. With this purpose a set of artifacts, including a metamodel, notations, tools and methodologies will be developed. They will be validated by means of case studies based on real scenarios.