Business Process Management - A Missing Link in Business Education

R. Seethamraju
{"title":"Business Process Management - A Missing Link in Business Education","authors":"R. Seethamraju","doi":"10.1108/14637151211232696","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the inadequacies of current business education in the context of “process”. It presents an analysis of the background to business processes in historical perspective and posits the significance of business management for today's business education. It argues the importance of business processes and business process management (BPM) in the context of the current and emerging information technologies (IT) and business education and highlights its ability to offer a missing link between business, IT and strategy.Design/methodology/approach – The approach involves analysis and review of the literature and analysis of secondary data.Findings – Even though business processes have been the subject of formal study from multiple perspectives for a long time, since the start of industrial age, processes still are not well understood, left unmanaged and poorly executed. With business schools teaching primarily function specific and narrow and IT schools focused on na...","PeriodicalId":93486,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... Americas Conference on Information Systems. Americas Conference on Information Systems","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"85","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the ... Americas Conference on Information Systems. Americas Conference on Information Systems","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1108/14637151211232696","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 85

Abstract

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the inadequacies of current business education in the context of “process”. It presents an analysis of the background to business processes in historical perspective and posits the significance of business management for today's business education. It argues the importance of business processes and business process management (BPM) in the context of the current and emerging information technologies (IT) and business education and highlights its ability to offer a missing link between business, IT and strategy.Design/methodology/approach – The approach involves analysis and review of the literature and analysis of secondary data.Findings – Even though business processes have been the subject of formal study from multiple perspectives for a long time, since the start of industrial age, processes still are not well understood, left unmanaged and poorly executed. With business schools teaching primarily function specific and narrow and IT schools focused on na...
业务流程管理——商业教育中缺失的一环
目的-本文的目的是分析当前商业教育在“过程”背景下的不足之处。它从历史的角度分析了商业过程的背景,并提出了商业管理对当今商业教育的意义。它论证了业务流程和业务流程管理(BPM)在当前和新兴的信息技术(It)和商业教育背景下的重要性,并强调了它提供业务、It和战略之间缺失的联系的能力。设计/方法论/方法-方法包括对文献的分析和回顾以及对二手数据的分析。尽管业务流程长期以来一直是从多个角度进行正式研究的主题,但自工业时代开始以来,流程仍然没有得到很好的理解,没有得到管理,执行也很差。由于商学院的教学主要是针对特定功能和狭隘的,而IT学院则专注于na…
本文章由计算机程序翻译,如有差异,请以英文原文为准。
求助全文
约1分钟内获得全文 求助全文
来源期刊
自引率
0.00%
发文量
0
×
引用
GB/T 7714-2015
复制
MLA
复制
APA
复制
导出至
BibTeX EndNote RefMan NoteFirst NoteExpress
×
提示
您的信息不完整,为了账户安全,请先补充。
现在去补充
×
提示
您因"违规操作"
具体请查看互助需知
我知道了
×
提示
确定
请完成安全验证×
copy
已复制链接
快去分享给好友吧!
我知道了
右上角分享
点击右上角分享
0
联系我们:info@booksci.cn Book学术提供免费学术资源搜索服务,方便国内外学者检索中英文文献。致力于提供最便捷和优质的服务体验。 Copyright © 2023 布克学术 All rights reserved.
京ICP备2023020795号-1
ghs 京公网安备 11010802042870号
Book学术文献互助
Book学术文献互助群
群 号:481959085
Book学术官方微信