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Developing the Evaluation of a Pattern-Based Approach for Business Process Improvement

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Advancing the Impact of Design Science: Moving from Theory to Practice (DESRIST 2014)

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The evaluation of design science (DS) artifacts is a frequently discussed research issue, and many approaches have been developed for this DS activity. However, it is often stated that these approaches only provide rudimentary support for determining the appropriate evaluation methods for an individual DS project. In this paper, an evaluation method for a Business Process Improvement (BPI) pattern approach, which is currently under development, is elaborated. For that purpose, findings from reviewing relevant literature as well as general DS evaluation criteria are investigated to derive an evaluation method for the BPI pattern approach.

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Griesberger, P. (2014). Developing the Evaluation of a Pattern-Based Approach for Business Process Improvement. In: Tremblay, M.C., VanderMeer, D., Rothenberger, M., Gupta, A., Yoon, V. (eds) Advancing the Impact of Design Science: Moving from Theory to Practice. DESRIST 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8463. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06701-8_15

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