Blockchains for business process management - challenges and opportunities

Mendling, Jan; Weber, Ingo; van der Aalst, Wil; vom Brocke, Jan; Cabanillas, Cristina; Daniel, Florian; Debois, Soren; Di Ciccio, Claudio; Dumas, Marlon; Dustdar, Schahram; Gal, Avigdor; Garcia-Banuelos, Luciano; Governatori, Guido; Hull, Richard; La Rosa, Marcello; Leopold, Henrik; Leymann, Frank; Recker, Jan; Reichert, Manfred; Reijers, Hajo A.

Blockchains for business process management - challenges and opportunities

Publisher Version

Journal

ACM transactions on management information systems

Volume

9

Issue

1

Start Page

1

End Page

16

Citation

ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, Volume 9, Issue 1, March 2018, pp 1–16, doi: 10.1145/3183367

ArXiv ID

1704.03610v3

Abstract

Blockchain technology promises a sizable potential for executing inter-organizational business processes without requiring a central party serving as a single point of trust (and failure). This paper analyzes its impact on business process management (BPM). We structure the discussion using two BPM frameworks, namely the six BPM core capabilities and the BPM lifecycle. This paper provides research directions for investigating the application of blockchain technology to BPM.

Content

Subjects

Computer Science - Software Engineering

DDC Class

600: Technik