Functional alienation is the nondisclosure of the exact operational activities that are operated in the context of a process execution. The presence of a specific task is not concealed; however, specific details of the activity are masked while the process structure remains unchanged.
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Using View Process Models in Collaborative Business Processes
Jörg Ziemann (Institute for Information Systems at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany), Timo Kahl (Institute for Information Systems at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany), and Dirk Werth (Institute for Information Systems at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany)
Copyright: © 2008
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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch229
Abstract
Increasing interconnection of organizations is a global trend. Independent organizational units or entire organizations build temporary or permanent collaborations, which pool resources, capabilities, and information to achieve a common objective (Sydow, 1993). New business models are emerging and existing ways of working are redesigned forming long running processes between various (external) partners—so called Cross- Organisational Business Processes (CBPs). In order to realize a collaborative scenario in an efficient and effective manner, it is necessary to design, manage, and optimize CBPs on a global level. This requires the externalization of internal information of every single partner in the network.