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ANTECEDENTES
Induced by an extremely challenging market, enterprises must gain the ability to adapt to changes of their environment in an effective as well as in an efficient way. This is why companies are forced to seek for new concepts and means which help them to become more adaptable and flexible in order to stay competitive. Nowadays, business processes are commonly recognized to representessential components of an enterprise architecture. Therefore, the management of business processes attracts special attention within a business ecosystem.

Business processes, however, are commonly afflicted with high dynamics. These assets must be constantly adapted and/or changed in order to generate a sustainable increase in value. Since business processes describe how enterprisesmanufacture their products and services, their sequence of activities has to be adapted in case of changes, for example during integration of new partners or technologies as well as in case of changes in the enterprise strategy. Consequently, ongoing business performance is guaranteed and companies stay competitive and up-to-date.

The concept of the enterprise abilities or the so called businesscapabilities (BC) was deduced from the need to be able to handle the dynamics around and in enterprises successfully [31]: Homann, U.: A Business-Oriented Foundation for Service Orientation, Microsoft Corporation (February 2006), http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479368.aspx February 3, 2010)


A business capability is a particular ability or capacity that a business may possess or exchange toachieve a specific purpose or outcome. A capability describes what the business does (outcomes and service levels) that creates value for customers; for example, pay employee or ship product. A business capability abstracts and encapsulates the people, process/procedures, technology, and information into the essential building blocks needed to facilitate performance improvement and redesignanalysis.

To our understanding, business capabilities represent abilities from the different areas of an enterprise to achieve a certain goal or result. They describe what an enterprise achieves in order to obtain customer value but they do not deal with resources needed to accomplish particular tasks.




[10] Weske, M.: Business Process Management. Springer, Berlin (2007)

BusinessProcesses and Information Technology
Why is it so difficult to bring business processes up to their full potential? First, we have to realize that there are other viewpoints

Processes are not only analyzed, and designed, but they are also enacted. Enactment nowadays is mostly done with the help of IT support. In order to unveil the full potential of business processes we have to manage the wholebusiness process life cycle where business and IT agenda have to be considered likewise.

Business Process Management – S-BPM a new Paradigm for Competitive Advantage?
Robert Singer and Erwin Zinser


Business processes are not an entity of computer science alone, but we have to consider the social and human aspects on one side and business targets on the other side.

Beside the problemsmentioned above the transformation is also very time and therefore cost-intensive. The implementation is often one step behind the actual business needs in a changing environment, due to this fact. Also, the implemented processes may differ from the real processes. These problems are often referred to as the Business-IT Gap. In order to bridge this gap many different approaches have been proposed, butthe final solution has yet to be found.
Process Algebra and the Subject-oriented Business Process Management Approach
Robert Singer and Matthias Teller












What Is S-BPM?
Albert Fleischmann

Antecedentes
En nuestro mundo global, la división del trabajo es cada vez mayor. Esto significa que esfuerzo de coordinación también aumenta con el fin de producir los productos o...