Blockchains for Business Process Management - Challenges and Opportunities

Jan Mendling, Ingo Weber, Wil M.P. van der Aalst, Jan vom Brocke, Cristina Cabanillas Macias, Florian Daniel, Søren Debois, Claudio Di Ciccio, Marlon Dumas, Schahram Dustdar, Avigdor Gal, Luciano García-Bañuelos, Guido Governatori, Richard Hull, Marcello La Rosa, Henrik Leopold, Frank Leymann, Jan Recker, Manfred Reichert, Hajo A. ReijersStefanie Rinderle-Ma, Andreas Solti, Michael Rosemann, Stefan Schulte, Munindar P. Singh, Tijs Slaats, Mark Staples, Barbara Weber, Matthias Weidlich, Mathias Weske, Xiwei Xu, Liming Zhu

Publication: Scientific journalJournal articlepeer-review

Abstract

Blockchain technology offers a sizable promise to rethink the way interorganizational business processes are managed because of its potential to realize execution without a central party serving as a single point of trust (and failure). To stimulate research on this promise and the limits thereof, in this article, we outline the challenges and opportunities of blockchain for business process management (BPM). We first reflect how blockchains could be used in the context of the established BPM lifecycle and second how they might become relevant beyond. We conclude our discourse with a summary of seven research directions for investigating the application of blockchain technology in the context of BPM.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1 - 16
JournalACM Transactions on Management Information Systems
Volume9
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018

Austrian Classification of Fields of Science and Technology (ÖFOS)

  • 102022 Software development
  • 102
  • 102001 Artificial intelligence
  • 502
  • 502050 Business informatics
  • RISE_BPM

    Di Ciccio, C. (Researcher) & Mendling, J. (Researcher)

    1/05/1530/04/19

    Project: Research

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