AdaptiveCM 2018 - 6th International Workshop on Adaptive Case Management and other non-workflow approaches to BPM(AdaptiveCM)

The sign of our time is the amazing speed with which changes in the business world happen. This requires an increasing agility from the enterprises: their structures, processes and decision-making mechanisms.
Started by F. Taylor and H. Ford, a pursuit of process optimization, automation and efficiency resulted in creation of workflow concept, where a process is considered as a (predefined) flow of tasks, where the human involvement is minimized.
Agile enterprise means agile decision making on all levels to quickly react on changes in the world, and even be proactive. In IS engineering, it means greater importance of the role of knowledge worker who has an advantage over any automated workflow of being able to adapt to the situations.
Decision-making remains a challenging aspect in process management: process automation increases productivity, reinforces control and guarantees a minimal quality, while leaving no room for innovative and adaptive decision making “at run time”. For modern companies, this tradeoff becomes less and less acceptable. Empowering knowledge workers with tools and systems for efficient, flexible decision making wile guaranteeing that the resulted process will be compliant with norms and standards – is the important endeavor for both researchers and practitioners. A focus on agility requires a paradigm shift in the enterprise computing. A novel paradigm promotes less prescriptive process execution rules extended with decision making models and supports knowledge workers, giving them the opportunity to creatively use their knowledge and experience in volatile environments.