Weak workflow

The modeling of business processes and their enactment in workflow systems is a well-established approach. A workflow at its simplest is the movement of documents and/or tasks through a work process. However, distributed cross-organizational workflows in dynamic and ad hoc cooperations are difficult to model and knowledge work cannot typically be modeled sufficiently by classical, static process models. The concept of a weak workflow attempts to address these difficulties. To enable a process-oriented knowledge management (KM) approach under these circumstances, the concept of weakly-structured workflows has been developed. A weak workflow within an organization's information system allows processes to be defined as they are being performed. It requires general knowledge about the organization to be dynamically combined with specific information about a current workflow. This approach intertwines process modeling and workflow enactment and facilitates active information support in dynamically changing environments.

ee also

*Workflows
*Computer-supported collaboration
*Business Process Management, Business process modeling
*Business-driven development
*Enterprise content management
*Human interaction management
*Smart contracts

References

* [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel5/8713/27586/01231434.pdf http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel5/8713/27586/01231434.pdf]
* [http://www.iit.nrc.gc.ca/iit-publications-iti/docs/NRC-48062.pdf http://www.iit.nrc.gc.ca/iit-publications-iti/docs/NRC-48062.pdf]