Abstract:
The enormous success of the Internet and the rapid development of information technology has led to new opportunities for doing business. Formerly unknown business models have emerged and enterprises in the networked world are facing new chances and risks. An enterprise can cope with this changing environment by redesigning its business processes.
This work aims to describe the strategies an enterprise can adopt, the business models it can deploy, and how business process modeling can aid in this transformation process. Two strategies will be identified, the organisational and networking strategies, and a number of business models will be outlined. The focus is on the description of business processes and development of new business solutions. The complexity of business process modeling and the development of process oriented information systems requires a structured and comprehensive modeling approach. To cope with this complexity an approach will be proposed. The approach consists of three parts: the first part describes a method which divides the problem into smaller portions, the second part comprises procedural and quality aspects with respect to the modeling project and the last part describes a tool which can be applied to help in the modeling project. This modeling approach and the already existing tool ProSpec serve as an input to improve the tool functionality and to give advice for further tool development as well as the feedback to the modeling approach. As a result, a tool prototype has been developed which greatly improves the usability and functionality of ProSpec and provides an aid in “real world†business process modeling projects.
