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BPM: The Promise and the Challenge: It’s all about closing the loop from conception to execution and back.

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Over the last decade, businesses and governments have been giving increasing attention to business processes - to their description, automation, and management. This interest grows out of the need to streamline business operations, consolidate organizations, and save costs, reflecting the fact that the process is the basic unit of business value within an organization.

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          March 2004
          84 pages
          ISSN:1542-7730
          EISSN:1542-7749
          DOI:10.1145/984458
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