Table 2

KiP-related challenges for BPM and digital innovation

Work system elementChallenges for BPM and digital innovation presented by KiPs
Customers
  • Identifying and representing uncertainties due to customers performing activities in many processes (e.g. co-produced processes in medicine, education and software development) even if they lack important skills, knowledge and interests

Product/services
  • Identifying and representing uncertainties related to what customers want and need

  • Producing product/services that provide genuine benefit for customers, despite often lacking detailed knowledge of their contexts and practices

Processes and activities
  • Providing useful tools and insights even though activities in KiPs may be unstructured or semi-structured and even though the execution path for a specific KiP may be determined dynamically as the work is performed

Participants
  • Anticipating and adjusting for predictable and unpredictable mistakes and workarounds, both of which may be simple errors or may be related to dynamic environments and complexity surrounding the KiP

Information
  • Identifying information and knowledge that is needed for reliable execution of a KiP and assuring availability when and where needed

Technologies
  • Using technologies to make appropriate information and knowledge available where and when they are needed

  • Embedding knowledge in ways that are effective and trustworthy

  • Assigning appropriate roles and responsibilities to technologies to achieve benefits without excessive risks

Environment
  • Responding to uncertainties in the surrounding organizational, competitive, political, legal and technological environments

Infrastructure
  • Describing and guaranteeing adequate support from human, informational and technical infrastructures for KiPs whose operational path is uncertain

Strategies
  • Aligning strategies related to knowledge and knowledge management with the operation of KiPs

Source(s): Authors’ own work

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