Emergent case management for ad-hoc processes: A solution based on microblogging and activity streams

Abstract

Recent research has shown the need to include unstructured ad-hoc processes into business process management. A possible solution for this purpose is Case Management, where information related to a certain process instance is bundled into a case file. In addition to existing top-down approaches, this paper suggests a bottom-up view on Case Management that leverages emergent user-driven case handling. We theoretically derive characteristics of such a system and demonstrate the approach based on a toolset of current Social Software techniques including microblogging, activity streams and tagging. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.