• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.87-105
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• 2003

Business Process Management (BPM) is an emerging trend of managing business process life cycles and integrating heterogeneous systems . Recently, BPM is considered as an essential element for automation of complex business processes involving many companies, particularly for those in an e-Business environment. In such an environment, it is very important for each business partner to trace history of resources. However, it has been a difficult problem for Workflow Management Systems(WFMSs) to support management of resource changes because of limited storage, complex process structure, and absence of formal change model. In this paper. a new framework is proposed, which can support change management for documents, one of core resources of business process. Under a traditional WFMSs framework, all workflow components belong to either build-time or run-time function, and executions of workflow processes are performed by the two functions . To manage changes of documents while process executing. a new framework with additional component modules are required. A version control method is introduced for the purpose of managing document changes. The proposed method includes five models for document structure, process structure, association between process and document, version management, and efficient version storage. A prototype system is developed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed models.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.81-101
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• 2005

Dynamic changes of the recent business environment draw more attention to Business Process Management (BPM). In this research, we derive a comprehensive BPM framework, define the functional and technical requirements, and classify the requirements into the framework. Based on the framework we suggest a standard procedure for BPM planning and implementation along with critical considerations. In addition, we propose an evaluation framework, which includes a comprehensive checklist and the evaluation method. The proposed evaluation framework can be used as an evaluator's useful reference.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.103-109
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• 2007

For Rapid change of business process, BPM(Business Process Management) has been required in order to help cooperations have a fast, active and easy to re-set business process. In the beginning of BPM introduction, there was a hash competition between Korean and foreign BPM solution companies but so far few studies have been accomplished. This study compared characters, related technologies and market situations of BPM Also, this study compared several Korean companies' case of BPM and researched critical success factors of BPM implementation. Thus this study presents an understanding for a proper way to adopt BPM to companies.

• Korean Management Science Review
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.127-136
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• 2009

This paper purposes analyzing how task assignments influence on business process efficiency, and improving business process efficiency in Business Process Management (BPM) environments. For this purpose, task assignment is categorized into dynamic assignment and static assignment. Dynamic assignment binds a user to a task at process run-time, whereas static assignments assigns a task to a user at process build-time. So far, the influence of task assignment methods has not been studied. We, in this paper, analyze the business process efficiency using two different assigning rule, in terms of cycle time as a efficiency measure. The comparison result can provide a guideline for a company who wants to employ commercial BPM systems.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.501-504
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• 2008

Recently, as a solution to adapt to changes in managerial environments, many companies introduce the BPM(Business Process Management) to achieve the standardization and optimization of internal/external company processes. The BPM is being highlighted compared to other managerial techniques for its diverse values such as fast responses to market changes, ensured transparency of processes, continued opportunities for improvements etc and the necessity is highlighted in the construction sector too. Therefore, this study compared the characteristics, effects of introduction and things to be improved between the BPMs introduced by various industrial sectors as an effort to establish a work process based managerial system in the construction sector and thereby drew 5 areas to be supported and compared analyzed the areas to be supported in various sectors by giving additional scores using the 3 scales method. This study is a stage to reflect the result in the construction sector where the introduction of the BPM is insufficient and by analyzing the characteristics and weak points of those BPMs introduced into various industrial sectors, this study expects effective BPM introductions and developments of construction companies.

• The Journal of Bigdata
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.5-15
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• 2017

Six Sigma has been adopted for the last two decades in many industries of manufacturing and service business to implement processs improvement. The methodology has difficulties in discovering target projects in the Define step and in controlling continuous measure and control in the Control step. To address the problem, more advanced system is required to support continuous control and management, and business process management (BPM) can be an effective solution for this problem. In this research, we introduce integrated models of Six Sigma and BPM for the purpose of realizing continuous process improvement, and explain the procedure of analyzing, improving, and monitoring the processes based on the data which has been accumulated in business process execution. It is expected that this integrated approach can maximize business performance by improving and managing business continuously on the integrated platform of two business innovation strategies, Six Sigma and BPM.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.233-247
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• 2007

In order for companies to survive rapidly changing business environment, it is expected that the activities in an enterprise must be reorganized around business processes; the information infrastructures are based on Web Services; and information systems are re-built around the BPMS (Business Process Management System). In this research we suggest major directions of e-business enhancement especially based on SOA(Service Oriented Architecture). Then we investigate the correlation between BPM functionalities and e-business technologies, and suggest priorities among the evolving directions of BPM functionalities via an intensive expert survey. The results of this study can be used by BPM solution vendors, prospective buyers and IT policy makers.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.314-322
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• 2006

Despite its brilliant success, Six Sigma has suffered from two shortcomings, namely, the lack of a systematic method to identify the right projects in the "Define" stage and to sustain the improvement in the "Control" stage. The integration of Six Sigma and Business Process Management(BPM) seems to be a promising way to overcome the shortcomings of Six Sigma. This paper first reviews the existing efforts on this issue, and then proposes a framework for an effective integration of Six Sigma and BPM. The framework consists of five phases - DEFINE, EXECUTE, MONITOR, ANALYZE, and IMPROVE(DEMAI). A detailed description on the procedural model is also presented.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.34-37
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• 2003

This paper proposes a BPM(Business Process Management) system framework for the NPD(New Product Development) of automotive suppliers. Recently many enterprises change their organization from function-oriented to process-oriented through BPR (Business Process Reengineering). Especially, based on quality systems like QS9000, it is required to documented business processes and continuously improve these processes for customer satisfaction. NPD, the most significant function for industrial competition, is reinforced by the best practices business process to satisfy the requirements of quality systems. The main objective of the paper is the development of the information system that supports the best practices process management. For this, first, we define the requirements of BPM system for NPD based on the viewpoint analysis, and then propose a DES (Design Execution System) framework based on dynamic workflow engine. The DES is addressed in the characteristics of a NPD business process, integrated project management, and process execution. A prototype DES system has been developed in the web environment. Its validity is demonstrated by applying it to an automotive supplier.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.221-233
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• 2017

To survive in the ever-changing environment, organizations need to improve or innovate their business processes. As a result, to attain this objective, BPM (Business Process Management) concept is widely adopted in modern enterprises. BPM life cycle consists of diagnosis, design, implementation and enactment. Conventionally, diagnosis of business process within the BPM life cycle is usually conducted by manual methods such as interviews, questionnaires and direct observations of process. And (re)designing business processes is also usually done manually under supervision of business experts from scratch. It is time-consuming and error-prone tasks. The objective of this research is to integrate the diagnosis and (re)design phase of BPM life cycle by sharing automatically generated process model and basic statistics in the diagnosis phase based on the process mining method. Eventually, this approach will lead to automate the tasks of diagnosis and design of business process. To implement and to show the usefulness of the proposed framework, two case studies were conducted in this research.