A business process diagram serves several purposes including process analysis, process-related communication, and process automation.
Considering communication, modelers must ensure that all participants understand a process diagram and the corresponding notation in the same way (i.e. effectiveness).
- The effectiveness of diagrammatic communication
With globalization this might get challenging since different cultural environments may implicitly imply different meanings to specified symbols whereas the same concepts may be associated with different representations.
Thus, our efforts are directed towards investigating the intuitiveness of common business process concepts’ representations. In this manner, we performed empirical research on a sample of novice modelers in two different cultural environments who were instructed to design the graphical representations for defined process-related concepts. Our findings show which business process concepts representations are intuitive to novice modelers and how does cultural background impact it.
The findings will be presented in form of a full paper entitled “An Empirical Investigation of the Cultural Impacts on the Business Process Concepts Representations” on the 17th Int. Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2019) at the Central-Eastern Europe Forum in VIENNA, SEPTEMBER 1-6, 2019. The co-authors of the paper are Pavlo Brin, Saša Kuhar, Gregor Jošt and Jernej Huber.
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