What is Business Process Management?: A two stage literature review of an emerging field <s> INTRODUCTION <s> Agility is vital to the innovation and competitive performance of firms in contemporary business environments. Firms are increasingly relying on information technologies, including process, knowledge, and communication technologies, to enhance their agility. The purpose of this paper is to broaden understanding about the strategic role of IT by examining the nomological network of influences through which IT impacts firm performance. By drawing upon recent thinking in the strategy, entrepreneurship, and IT management literatures, this paper uses a multitheoretic lens to argue that information technology investments and capabilities influence firm performance through three significant organizational capabilities (agility, digital options, and entrepreneurial alertness) and strategic processes (capability-building, entrepreneurial action, and coevolutionary adaptation). We also propose that these dynamic capabilities and strategic processes impact the ability of firms to launch many and varied competitive actions and that, in turn, these competitive actions are a significant antecedent of firm performance. Through our theorizing, we draw attention to a significant and reframed role of IT as a digital options generator in contemporary firms. <s> BIB001 </s> What is Business Process Management?: A two stage literature review of an emerging field <s> INTRODUCTION <s> In the last 10 years, there has been an explosion in the number of technologies, standards, and tools to provide process support. The book provides a unified and comprehensive overview of the principles, techniques and technologies underlying the emerging discipline of process aware information systems engineering. It brings together contributions from leading experts in this fast-growing field. Each chapter ends with a collection of thought-provoking exercises, which also makes it ideal as a text book. The book closes with a list of resources including suggested readings as well as URLs of relevantstandardization bodies, initiatives, and consortia <s> BIB002 </s> What is Business Process Management?: A two stage literature review of an emerging field <s> INTRODUCTION <s> Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to frame next‐generation enterprise systems (ES).Design/methodology/approach – The model is based on a retrospective analysis of the evolution of enterprise systems, enterprise resource planning (ERP) research and emerging business requirements.Findings – The paper proposes a conceptual framework for extended enterprise resource planning (ERP II). The aim of this model is to compile present ES concepts into a comprehensive outline of ERP II, thus composing a generic map and taxonomy for corporate‐wide enterprise systems.Research limitations/implications – The paper concludes that the ERP research needs to broaden its perspective in order to accommodate itself to the new issues of next‐generation enterprise systems.Practical implications – The model is seen as a first step towards a tool to analyse and design complex enterprise systems architecture.Originality/value – This paper is the first attempt to formalize and capture the ERP II concept and the next‐generation e... <s> BIB003
Business Process Management (BPM) is a new concept that is gaining an increased recognition in the management literature [1,  . Recently we have seen that traditional computer science research in workflow management is extending its perspective towards BPM BIB002 . However there is no academically agreed upon conceptual framework for BPM, and the concept of BPM is often used for commercial purposes, which makes it hard to grasp the fundamental idea of BPM  . Analyst Terry Schurter defines (BPM) as a natural and holistic management approach to operating business that produces a highly efficient, agile, innovative, and adaptive organization that far exceeds that achievable through traditional management approaches  . This definition makes no explicit reference to IT, but rather agility is pivotal. Agility is vital to contemporary business and the role of IT in shaping agility is obvious BIB001 . Consequently a common fframework across business, technology and Information Systems (IS) is needed. BPM is often proclaimed as a new management principle that gives companies the competitive advantages that is needed to support more agile and flexible business processes. Enterprise Information Systems (EIS), on the other hand, are described as tightly coupled system because they are built upon specific reference data models and process models, but still they are claimed inadequate to support agile business processes. However, contemporary EIS is rapidly evolving towards BPM oriented principles BIB003 . The lack of agility and flexibility is thus the Achilles heel of many EIS. BPM appears to be the solution to this problem, but what is BPM really about and what are the implications to EIS? Therefore the aim of the paper is to present a comprehensive study and common framework for the concept of BPM in an EIS perspective. The purpose of this work is to ensure a better foundation for future research and discussion of the implications of BPM on EIS. The starting point of this study is a focused literature review of the BPM concept. The research methodology is discussed in the next section. This literature review presented in the next chapter leads to the formulation of a conceptual framework for BPM which is evaluated using a quantitative lexical analysis of a broader literature sample. Finally the implication of the BPM on EIS is discussed and potential future research opportunities are outlined.