Impact of socio-technical network on process performance

Rong Liu, Akhil Kumar

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Abstract

There is a growing interest in socio-technical networks that encompass people, process and technology. They capture connections among technical artifacts and human resources. Existing studies have shown that social networks among resources that collaborate to work on a business process instance have an impact on the performance of the instance. Hence, the social network among the resources should be aligned with the technical work structure. Thus, we propose to identify empirically the specific features of social networks (e.g. size, closeness, density, etc.) that have the most significant impact on the performance of a process. Then, we can leverage these significant social network features to optimize dynamic assignment of tasks to resources for better performance. In general, organizations can use this two-part approach to evaluate their resource social networks and shape their resource networks to achieve socio-technical network alignment. We use real data from business processes in the IT incident management domain for this study to demonstrate our proposed methodology.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCollaborateCom 2014 - Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing
Subtitle of host publicationNetworking, Applications and Worksharing
Pages243-252
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781631900433
DOIs
StatePublished - 19 Jan 2015
Event10th IEEE/EAI International Conference on Collaborative Computing, CollaborateCom 2014 - Miami, United States
Duration: 22 Oct 201425 Oct 2014

Publication series

NameCollaborateCom 2014 - Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing

Conference

Conference10th IEEE/EAI International Conference on Collaborative Computing, CollaborateCom 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMiami
Period22/10/1425/10/14

Keywords

  • business process
  • collaborative social network
  • social BPM
  • social network metrics
  • socio-technical network

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