Business Process Management and Semantic Interoperability

Abstract

Contemporary organizations are exposed to an environment that ischanging at a continually increasing pace. Some of the external forceschallenging organizations today are Business Network Transformation,Business Process Outsourcing, Web 2.0, the Internet of Services, theInternet of Things and the Changing Needs of End Users in organizations.In this environment, organizations must retain internal stability andfocus on improving their core strengths to stay competitive and growboth their top and bottom lines. However, leveraging the full potentialof each of these trends requires organizations to be agile, co-innovatewithin supply webs and continually redefine relationships. The majorchallenge that arises for Business Process Management and SemanticInteroperability (BPM&SI) research and future technology is themitigation of risks arising from these conflicting themes. The purposeof this chapter is to motivate several research themes and technologyresearch areas within the field of BPM&SI that will address thisconflict in order to leverage the full potential of BPM in the future.