Individual Creativity in Designing Business Processes

Kathrin Figl; Barbara Weber

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-31069-0_25

Individual Creativity in Designing Business Processes

Kathrin Figl
, Barbara Weber

Vienna University of Economics and Business
University of Innsbruck

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Abstract

Designing business processes in a creative way is an important requirement for implementing process-aware information systems. In this article we investigate how process modeling competence and individual creativity style and capacity influence creativity in a business process redesign task. We explore these relationships with a laboratory experiment with 48 business students. Our preliminary results showed that process modeling competence is positively associated with the creative quality of a business process redesign, while individual creativity style and capacity measured by well-known creativity inventories seem to be less relevant. The findings underline the importance of training in process modeling to enable employees to realize their full creative potential when redesigning process models in process improvement projects.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Number of pages	13
Volume	112
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date	2012
Pages	294-306
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31069-0_25
Publication status	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	24th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering - Gdansk, Poland Duration: 25 Jun 2012 → 29 Jun 2012 Conference number: 24

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Conference	24th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Number	24
Country/Territory	Poland
City	Gdansk
Period	25/06/2012 → 29/06/2012

Series	Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
ISSN	1865-1348

Keywords

Creativity
Business Process Redesign
Process Modeling

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