On the Benefit of Using Mobile Technologies in Business Processes Export

@techreport{citeulike:1626081, abstract = {The rapid technical progress in the development of mobile devices and technologies offers new possibilities for improving and streamlining the performance of business processes. However, only few successful mobile applications exist in the business area. This paper discusses the benefits an enterprise can gain by using mobile technologies in business processes. It presents general indicators to measure the performance of business processes and shows how these indicators must be adapted to be useful to determine the benefit of mobile applications. Then, the set of indicators is applied in a real-world scenario. The results show that indicators like throughput time, error rate, reduction of redundancy, and increased flexibility are important for the benefit of mobile technologies.}, author = {Deibert, Sina and Rothlauf, Franz}, citeulike-article-id = {1626081}, keywords = {benefit, business, mobile, process}, posted-at = {2007-09-06 05:58:33}, priority = {2}, school = {University of Mannheim}, series = {Working Paper 15/2006}, title = {On the Benefit of Using Mobile Technologies in Business Processes}, year = {2006} }

TY - RPRT ID - citeulike:1626081 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1626081 N2 - The rapid technical progress in the development of mobile devices and technologies offers new possibilities for improving and streamlining the performance of business processes. However, only few successful mobile applications exist in the business area. This paper discusses the benefits an enterprise can gain by using mobile technologies in business processes. It presents general indicators to measure the performance of business processes and shows how these indicators must be adapted to be useful to determine the benefit of mobile applications. Then, the set of indicators is applied in a real-world scenario. The results show that indicators like throughput time, error rate, reduction of redundancy, and increased flexibility are important for the benefit of mobile technologies. SE - Working Paper 15/2006 TI - On the Benefit of Using Mobile Technologies in Business Processes KW - benefit KW - business KW - mobile KW - process AU - Deibert, Sina AU - Rothlauf, Franz PY - 2006/// ER -