Organizations increasingly seek to achieve operational excellence by standardizing business processes. Standardization initiatives may have different purposes, such as process streamlining, process automation, or even process outsourcing. However, standardization of processes is easier said than done. Standardization success depends on various factors, such as existent IT capabilities, available standard frameworks, market situation, and the processes' nature, such as their level of routine or structuredness. This paper uncovers the complex nature and relative influence of process-internal and -environmental factors relevant to process standardization, by discussing three case studies from different industries. The findings are summarized in a set of initial conjectures about successful process standardization. This exploratory research is a first step towards uncovering the characteristics of successful process standardization efforts. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.
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Rosenkranz, C., Seidel, S., Mendling, J., Schaefermeyer, M., & Recker, J. (2010). Towards a framework for business process standardization. In Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (Vol. 43 LNBIP, pp. 53–63). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12186-9_6
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