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Workflow modeling : tools for process improvement and application development

Title
Workflow modeling : tools for process improvement and application development / Alec Sharp, Patrick McDermott.
Author
Sharp, Alec.
Publication
Boston : Artech House, [2001], ©2001.

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Additional Authors
McDermott, Patrick.
Description
xvii, 345 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Reengineering (Management)
  • Organizational change
  • Industrial management
  • Information technology
  • Workflow
Note
  • Artech House computer library. "Artech House computer library."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Pt. I. The Convergence of Process and Systems. 1. Why We Had to Write This Book. 2. A Brief History of Process. 3. The Approach in a Nutshell -- Pt. II. Framing the Process. 4. Just What Are Processes, Anyway? 5. Establish the Process Boundaries. 6. Conducting the Initial Assessment. 7. Considering the Environment -- Pt. III. Swimlane Diagrams - Nuts and Bolts. 8. Workflow Process Modeling. 9. Managing Detail. 10. Questions and Difficulties -- Pt. IV. Understanding the As-Is Process. 11. Techniques for Modeling the As-Is Process. 12. Difficulties with As-Is Modeling. 13. Completing the As-Is Assessment -- Pt. V. The To-Be Process and Transition to System Requirements. 14. Characterizing and Designing the To-Be Process. 15. Data Modeling. 16. Use Case Scenario Analysis.
ISBN
1580530214 (alk. paper)
LCCN
00050811
OCLC
  • ocm45172000
  • SCSB-4094605
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries