...Philipp Bergener; Patrick Delfmann; Burkhard Weiss; Axel Winkelmann Purpose – Automating the task of identifying process weaknesses using process models is promising, as many organizations have to manage a large amount of process models. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a pattern-based...

... and it remains a challenge to systematically discover weaknesses in business process landscapes. Based on the flow chart notation language this paper seeks to argue for the definition of weakness patterns in order to automatically identify potential process weaknesses. Design/methodology/approach The authors...