Multi-level Team Assignment in Social Business Processes: An Algorithm and Simulation Study
| Autor: | Juhnyoung Lee, Akhil Kumar, Rong Liu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Process management
Social business Computer Networks and Communications Process (engineering) Business process business.industry Computer science Theoretical Computer Science Task (project management) Business process management Resource (project management) business Social network analysis Execution model Software Information Systems |
| Zdroj: | Information Systems Frontiers. 24:1949-1969 |
| ISSN: | 1572-9419 1387-3326 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10796-021-10211-y |
| Popis: | Business Process Management (BPM) systems usually neglect the human and social aspects (or team effects) involved in business process execution. Our work fills a large gap in literature by addressing multi-level teams that arise in business processes where teams are formed at both the task and process levels. In this paper, we develop a methodology called BPMTeams based on social network analysis for building an execution model for a social BPM. This model is used to make resource assignments to form dynamic teams that perform various team-based activities in a process. We further develop various resource assignment strategies and evaluate them using parameters estimated from a real data set in the IT incident management domain to understand how team effects play out in social business processes. The overall team effect in a process is analyzed at two levels: as a task team effect where the synergistic role of a team in a specific task is realized; and a process team effect that arises from inter-team synergies across the individual task teams in a process. The results offer some balanced insights for the interplay of these effects by highlighting the benefits and disadvantages of teams selected by a purely data-driven approach. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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