Using the Horus Method for Succeeding in Business Process Engineering Projects

This chapter presents the Horus Method for business process engineering, which is divided into four phases. These four phases consist of (1) an initial project preparation phase; (2) a strategy and architecture phase for the definition of strategic aspects as well as enterprise and system architecture; (3) a business process analysis phase; and (4) an application phase for the actual usage of models, thereby covering essential aspects of business process engineering. A formal conceptualization of the Horus Method is provided using the FDMM formalism, which is used for tool specification for the ADOxx platform. Thereby, the focus is on the formalization of XML nets, a special variant of high-level Petri Nets, for the modeling of interorganizational business processes in the field of e-commerce. Finally, a real-life case study is described which highlights the capabilities of the Horus Method for successful business process engineering projects.

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@inbook{Schoknecht2016,
title = {Using the Horus Method for Succeeding in Business Process Engineering Projects},
author = {Andreas Schoknecht and Arthur Vetter and Hans-Georg Fill and Andreas Oberweis},
editor = {Dimitris Karagiannis and Heinrich C. Mayr and John Mylopoulos},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39417-6_6},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-39417-6_6},
isbn = {978-3-319-39417-6},
year  = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
urldate = {2016-01-01},
booktitle = {Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling: Concepts, Methods and Tools},
pages = {127–147},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
address = {Cham},
abstract = {This chapter presents the Horus Method for business process engineering, which is divided into four phases. These four phases consist of (1) an initial project preparation phase; (2) a strategy and architecture phase for the definition of strategic aspects as well as enterprise and system architecture; (3) a business process analysis phase; and (4) an application phase for the actual usage of models, thereby covering essential aspects of business process engineering. A formal conceptualization of the Horus Method is provided using the FDMM formalism, which is used for tool specification for the ADOxx platform. Thereby, the focus is on the formalization of XML nets, a special variant of high-level Petri Nets, for the modeling of interorganizational business processes in the field of e-commerce. Finally, a real-life case study is described which highlights the capabilities of the Horus Method for successful business process engineering projects.},
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}