Agile Business Process Management – Towards an Integrated Framework

Agility is a term that is widely discussed among researchers and practice. Agility is associated with an organization’s ability to be adaptive to change and to anticipate new business opportunities. A quick look through previous issues of BPTrends and other BPM-related outlets shows that the concept of agility has been slowly attracting interest in the BPM community. This column is based on two main ideas. First, we emphasize that BPM should be responsive to what is happening around the organization, and we argue that agility can be an important means to achieve this. Second, we reveal first findings of our latest research where we develop an integrative framework for agile BPM. Based on this framework, we will offer some suggestions for how practitioners can integrate agility in their BPM activities.