Moving Across Paradigms between the Process Design and Enactment Phase in Enterprise Information Systems

While the business process management literature often assumes a single approach (e.g. procedural or eventdriven) over the process lifecycle, a transition between approaches at different phases in the process lifecycle may significantly reduce the impact of intrinsic trade-offs between process characteristics. This position paper explores several business process strategies by analyzing the approaches at different phases in the process lifecycle as well as the various transitions.

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