Business Process Modeling for developing Process Oriented IT Systems

International audienceInformation system developers are challenged to develop systems that should meet the requirements of modern organizations. By promoting the enterprise-wide integration, the paradigm of Business Process Management contrasts with traditional information system development, which was suffered, but also crystallized, the vertical division of the enterprise activities. In addition, the paradigms of Business Process Reengineering and Business Process Improvement contrast with traditional information system development that focused on automating and supporting existing business processes. Now, enterprises should create new ways of working to survive in a competitive environment. This organizational transformation depends of the creation of a powerful vision of what future should be like. We claim that an in depth understanding of the current functioning is also required. In this context, enterprise modeling can help understanding the current business situation and establishing a vision of what the future should be like. Therefore, business process modeling becomes a pre-requisite for system requirements elicitation and system development

A Framework for Analyzing Business/Information System Alignment Requirements.

International audienceIn order to provide a competitive advantage to the enterprise, the business strategy and processes and its information system (IS) need to be aligned. Achieving strategic alignment continues to be a major concern for business executives and becomes more difficult to handle in an evolving environment. The literature provides conceptual frameworks dividing a company representation in independent and exchanging layers and aiming at the strategic alignment. In this paper, we describe eight among these works. Aiming a better understanding of the Business/IS alignment requirements, we propose an analysis framework, in which we position the studied approaches, and we bring out the most important results related to the forces and weaknesses of these approaches

A Framework for Occupational Fraud Detection by Social Network Analysis

International audienceThis paper explores issues related to occupational fraud detection. We observe over the past years, a broad use of network research across social and physical sciences including but not limited to social sharing and filtering, recommendation systems, marketing and customer intelligence, counter intelligence and law enforcement. However, the rate of social network analysis adoption in organizations by control professionals or even by academics for insider fraud detection purpose is still very low. This paper introduces the OFD – Occupational Fraud Detection framework, based on formal social network analysis and semantic reasoning principles by taking a design science research perspective

Research Challenges in Information Science

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Modeling the creation of a Learning organization by using the Learning Organization Atlas Framework

International audienceIn a continuously changing external environment, the learning organization can provide a competitive advantage. However, the concept has been largely criticized for the lack of guidelines and tools on how it could be developed. This undermines the opportunity for the development of the learning organization. This paper aims to contribute toward the debate on its creation by proposing a Learning Organization Atlas Framework approach. This framework comprises of the facets of the learning organization that characterize them, a Learning Organization Grid for the analysis and benchmarking of organizations, a Learning Organization Atlas that can be used for developing models of them, and a Learning Organization Road Map that includes the intentions of the organization and the strategies to achieve those intentions. With the framework and its four elements, we propose a method for modeling the learning organization and organizational change by providing embedded flexibility. The next level for research is in identifying the influence between different facets, strategy selection, and development of guidelines for models of learning organizations

A framework to evaluate methods' capacity to design flexible business processes

International audienceThe assumption done in this paper is that changing processes require specific methods for their design. The decision of adopting a method for modeling flexible processes depends on many criterions and situations. Accordingly, we propose a framework with a list of criterions. The user can use it as a decision support framework for the choice of a modeling method. We used two enterprise modeling approaches to illustrate the proposed framework

Selected Extended Papers

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Using EKD-CMM electronic guide book for managing change in organisations

International audienceThe assumption of the work presented in this paper is the situatedness of the change process. The Enterprise Knowledge Development - Change Management Method (EKD-CMM) provides multiple and dynamically constructed ways of working to organise and to guide the change management. The method is built on the notion of labelled graph of intentions and strategies called a road map and the associated guidelines. The EKD-CMM road map is a navigational structure which supports the dynamic selection of the intention to be achieved next and the appropriate strategy to achieve it whereas guidelines help in the operationalisation of the selected intention. This paper presents the electronic guide book which implements the EKD-CMM road map and its associated guidelines

Un cadre de référence pour analyser les exigences d'alignement métier/système d'information

National audienceL'alignement stratégique est un processus continu loin d'être simple et rectiligne vu certaines difficultés : cycle stratégique et cycle des SI distincts, caractère secret de la stratégie, imprévus, paris technologiques... Se préoccuper de l'alignement stratégique seulement lorsque l'inflexion stratégique apparaît est naïf. En effet, le risque de rencontrer des rigidités au sein du patrimoine des SI est une évidence. Plusieurs tentatives se sont présentées pour résoudre ce problème. Nous nous sommes inspirées de certains de ces travaux pour construire un cadre d'analyse basé sur celui des " quatre mondes ". Nous avons pu tirer certains points importants lors du positionnement de quelques approches d'alignement dans ce cadre afin de prendre en considération les exigences des parties prenantes concernant l'alignement stratégique