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Defining business process flexibility with the help of invariants
2007
Software Process: Improvement and Practice
Enterprise survival is about maintaining an identity that is separate from other enterprises. We define flexibility as the ability to change without losing identity. The identity of an enterprise can be analyzed as a set of norms and beliefs about these norms held by its stakeholders, such as customers, employees, suppliers and investors. Business processes and their support systems maintain invariants that are the result of compromises between the often conflicting norms and beliefs of these
doi:10.1002/spip.301
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