Knowledge-intensive Processes: The Company Acquisition Process

Based on the paper "Knowledge-Intensive Processes: Characteristics, Requirements and Analysis of Contemporary Approaches", written by Di Ciccio et al., we investigated for the seminar "Pearls in BPM" (HPI summer term 2023) to which extent the modelling technqiues "flexible Case Management (fCM)" and "Guard-Stage-Milestone (GSM)" are suitable for modelling the company acquisition process.

Content

This repository contains following artifacts:

1. A simplified and an extended process model of the company acquisition process, expressed with GSM. You can find them in the directories "gsm_simplified" and "gsm_full".
2. A simplified and an extended process model of the company acquisition process, expressed with fCM. You can find them in the directories "fcm_simplified" and "fcm_full".
3. A process model of the company acquisition process, expressed with BPMN. Thereby, the model introduces the motivation why other modelling technqiues are required. You can find the BPMN model in the directory "bpmn".
4. A detailed discussions of Di Ciccio et al.'s requirements. It is placed in the root of the repository as "requirements_discussion.numbers".
5. The final paper that describes the company acquisition process, summarizes the characteristics presented by Di Ciccio et al., prooves the knowledge-intensive nature of the company acquisition process and discusses to which extent GSM and fCM meet Di Ciccio et al.'s requirements on modelling techniques.

Acknowledgements

This work has been supported by Anjo Seidel as well as the BPT chair at HPI.