42 research outputs found
A Methodological Framework for the Integrated Design of Decision-Intensive Care Pathways\u2014an Application to the Management of COPD Patients
Healthcare processes are by nature complex, mostly due to their multi-disciplinary character that requires continuous coordination between care providers. They encompass both organizational and clinical tasks, the latter ones driven by med- ical knowledge, which is inherently incomplete and distributed among people having different expertise and roles. Care pathways refer to planning and coordination of care processes related to specific groups of patients in a given setting. The goal in defining and following care pathways is to improve the quality of care in terms of patient satisfaction, costs reduction, and medical outcome. Thus, care pathways are a promising methodological tool for standardizing care and decision-making. Business process management techniques can successfully be used for representing organiza- tional aspects of care pathways in a standard, readable, and accessible way, while supporting process development, analysis, and re-engineering. In this paper, we intro- duce a methodological framework that fosters the integrated design, implementation, and enactment of care processes and related decisions, while considering proper rep- resentation and management of organizational and clinical information. We focus here and discuss in detail the design phase, which encompasses the simulation of care pathways. We show how business process model and notation (BPMN) and decision model and notation (DMN) can be combined for supporting intertwined aspects of decision-intensive care pathways. As a proof-of-concept, the proposed methodology has been applied to design care pathways related to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the region of Veneto, in Italy
Gestão de regras de negócio: análise de soluções alternativas
Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia e GestĂŁo de Sistemas de InformaçãoCada vez mais, as Organizações estudam novas formas de se destacarem no mercado e de se distinguirem dos seus concorrentes. A gestĂŁo de regras de negĂłcio está cada vez mais a ser encarada de forma diferente pelas equipas de sistemas de informação, porque traz inĂşmeros benefĂcios na estratĂ©gia das organizações bem como benefĂcios em manutenção das TI, que se apresenta como uma dificuldade para as organizações.
O ambiente competitivo da atualidade, exige que as organizações tenham aplicações flexĂveis que possam ser adaptadas para atender aos requisitos do negĂłcio, pois estĂŁo sempre em constante mudança.
O uso de um Sistema de Gestão de Regras de Negócio permite que as organizações desenvolvam e atualizem as aplicações de forma mais rápida e mais eficiente enquanto oferece ferramentas aos gestores para ajudar a tomar a melhor decisão no que toca a decisões estratégicas de negócio.
Com a dificuldade atual e necessidade de as organizações garantirem a agilidade nos negócios, uma abordagem de gestão regras de negócio está a catapultar as organizações para lugares cimeiros de mercado permitindo a melhoria gradual na tomada de decisões, bem como um melhor alinhamento entre os sistemas, as pessoas e as TI.
A realização deste trabalho pretende produzir uma análise das soluções disponĂveis para a gestĂŁo de regras de negĂłcio, contribuindo assim, para facilitar a escolha por parte de equipas que futuramente necessitem de implementar soluções envolvendo gestĂŁo de regras de negĂłcio.More and more, the organizations study new ways to stand out in the market and to distinguish themselves from their competition. The Business Rules Management is increasingly being looked in a different way by the information system teams, because it brings many benefits in the organizations strategies as well as benefits in the IT maintenance, that presents itself as a difficulty for the organizations.
The actual competitive environment, demands the organizations to have flexible applications that can be adapted to attend the business requirements, because they are always in constant change.
The use of the Business Rules Management Systems allows the organizations to develop and update the applications in a fast and efficient manner while offering tools to the managers to help them make the best decision in regard to the business strategies decisions. With the current difficulty and need for organizations to ensure agility in the businesses, a business rules management approach is catapulting the organizations to the top market levels allowing a gradual improvement in the decision making, as well as a better alignment between the systems, the people and the IT
AI-Enhanced Hybrid Decision Management
The Decision Model and Notation (DMN) modeling language allows the precise specification of business decisions and business rules. DMN is readily understandable by business users involved in decision management. However, as the models get complex, the cognitive abilities of humans threaten manual maintainability and comprehensibility. Proper design of the decision logic thus requires comprehensive automated analysis of e.g., all possible cases the decision shall cover; correlations between inputs and outputs; and the importance of inputs for deriving the output. In the paper, the authors explore the mutual benefits of combining human-driven DMN decision modeling with the computational power of Artificial Intelligence for DMN model analysis and improved comprehension. The authors propose a model-driven approach that uses DMN models to generate Machine Learning (ML) training data and show, how the trained ML models can inform human decision modelers by means of superimposing the feature importance within the original DMN models. An evaluation with multiple real DMN models from an insurance company evaluates the feasibility and the utility of the approach
Application of Business Process Modelling and Blockchain Technology for Financial Cloud
Digital economy, digital currencies, and advancement in information technology have contributed to tremendous growth in the global economy and financialisation. In order to have contributed sustain this growth, a systematic approach is necessary for all aspects of the financial process and applications. To a certain extent, it has also created problems in social and economic instability. In order to minimize damaging impacts caused by the lack of regulatory compliance, governance, ethical responsibilities and trust, we have been applying rigorous business requirements analysis framework known as Business Integrity Modelling and Analysis (BIMA) and detailed Business Process Modelling and Simulation (BPMN) techniques to unify business integrity with business performance using by intelligent big data predictive analytics and business intelligence. This talk will provide an application of BPMN for financial application as a Service and will also provide an overview of blockchain technology adoption for the financial cloud
Aufwandsschätzung bei Geschäftsprozessmodellerstellung
Geschäftsprozessmanagement-Projekte im Allgemeinen und Modellierungsprojekte im Speziellen besitzen noch keine angewandte und wissenschaftlich gestützte und untersuchte Methode zur Aufwandsschätzung. Insbesondere gibt es für die Phase der Modellerstellung innerhalb des Geschäftsprozessmanagement-Lebenszyklus keine Aufwandsschätzungen, während der Bereich der Implementierung von Geschäftsprozessmodellen erste Ansätze zu Aufwandschätzungen in der Literatur aufzeigt.
Diese Arbeit gibt einen Überblick über Schätzmethoden, den aktuellen Stand der Literatur aus angrenzenden und entfernten Forschungsfeldern und entwickelt basierend darauf eine Methode namens BPM COCOMO zur Aufwandsschätzung bei der Erstellung von Geschäftsprozessmodellen. Es wird eine Adaption von COCOMO vorgenommen und eine weitere Untersuchung und Validierung dieses Modells vorgeschlagen.
Keywords: geschäftsprozessmodellierung, aufwandsschätzung, gpm, bpm, bpmn, function point, cocomo, modellierung, aufwand, kostenUp to this point business process management projects in general and business process modeling projects in particular could not rely on a practical and scientifically validated method to estimate cost and effort.
Especially for the process step of model development, so far no cost and effort estimate approach has been developed within the business process management life cycle. However, regarding the implementation of business process models, initial solutions are discussed in the literature.
The thesis at hand provides an overview on the existing methods to estimate cost and effort and the state of the literature published to date from closely related fields of research as well as from less connected areas. Based on that, a method is being developed to estimate cost and effort for the development of business process models: BPM COCOMO. After an adaptation of the method, different ideas for further analysis and validation of the method are proposed.
Keywords: Business process modelling, cost estimation, effort estimation, gpm, bpm, bpmn, function point, cocomo, modelling, effort, cos
Process Oriented Organization
CieÄľom tejto bakalárske práce je popĂsaĹĄ vĂ˝znam vĂ˝razu podnikovĂ˝ proces, procesne riadenĂ© organizácie, procesnĂ© riadenie a pojmy s tĂ˝m spojenĂ© . TaktieĹľ zhodnotiĹĄ súčasnĂ˝ stav procesnĂ©ho riadenia a popĂsaĹĄ nástroje na podporu procesnĂ©ho riadenia. Praktická ÄŤasĹĄ práce obsahuje popis vĂ˝beru organizácie pre procesnĂş analĂ˝zu. Organizáciou je Fakulta Elektrotechnická na ÄŚVUT, na ktorej som previedla procesnĂş analĂ˝zu vybranĂ˝ch procesov vhodnĂ˝ch pre automatizáciu. Pre vybranĂ© procesy bola navrhnutá automatizácia, ktorá je zhodnotená pomocou metrĂk na meranie vĂ˝konnosti procesov.The main goal of the bachelor thesis is to describe meaning of the term business process, process oriented organization, process management and other related terms. Next objective is to evaluate present state of business process management and define supporting tools. Practical part of the thesis contains description of the choosing organization for performing process analysis. Chosen organization is Faculty of Electrical Engineering at CTU, where I performed analysis of the processes, which are suitable for automatization. For selected processes was proposed automatization, which is evaluated with metrics for measuring process performance