
can be achieved with the help of management
approaches like bu
siness process management,
qua
line. Business
pro
able to
all
proach including the description and
doc
d be realised with
the
mo
velopment of a tailor-
made modelling methodology the authors come to
lic authorities need an
veloping innovative and
new public services in order to become more citizen-
Commission to the Council, the European
Parliament, The European Economic and Social
Committee and the Committee of the Regions,
final, Brussels, 26.9.2003,
ation_society/eeurope/2005/
Gis
Grö
pplications
lity management or IT Management. The
integrated approach described in this paper supports
such management approaches and can be the basis
for an integration platform.
Local authorities have different priorities and
objectives than regional or federal. Cities or villages
heavily emphasise on the development of a catching
Internet presentation of their organisation. Offering
public services via the Internet needs the
transformation of processes to e-processes, that is
the possibility to execute processes on
cess management optimally supports this
intention by finding, describing, optimising and
documenting governmental processes. An example
of such an e-process could be the online application
for a new passport or the online registration.
Another big issue in local governments are
reference processes and the communication and
cooperation with other local authorities. By
providing reference processes to cities a lot of effort
can be avoided. The process for an application for
holidays for example could be standardised and
published in the intranet/internet to be avail
employees.
The regional level itself pursues different
objects. It is quite important for these authorities to
be well coordinated in their daily treatment with
local and federal organisations. Therefore
standardised processes should be the major goal.
These processes can be developed by an integrated
management ap
umentation of the processes, the implementation
of interfaces to standard software or legacy systems
and the transformation of the business processes to
workflow management systems for online execution.
The measurement of indicators and goals combined
with the business processes is becoming a major
issue for public administrations.
Last but not least federal governments define
their objectives on a higher level. Comprehensive e-
government projects surface the IT landscape of
federal authorities, portals for online public services
are developed and standardisation efforts became of
utmost importance. These goals demand a well-
structured organisation that coul
help the integrated business process management
toolkit developed in the project described above.
Process modelling is an essential aspect in e-
government projects in order to depict the
significance of the changes and necessary adoptions
of procedures and products within public
administrations (for example online public services).
The integration of organisational and IT
perspective as well as strategic and operative level
become a crucial success factor. The process
modelling tool ADOamt
®
faces the challenge and
supports public authorities in their whole process life
cycle – from the strategic decision over design of
processes to the execution and evaluation. The
dularity and openness of the process modelling
tool offers the possibility of the integration of
different software tools like workflow management
systems, standard software or groupware tools. The
integrated modelling from the portal to the back-
office including the underlying IT architecture as
well as the integration of the involved parties
(citizen, organisation, administrative clerk, etc.)
form the core of ADOamt
®
.
6 CONCLUSION
After more than one year of working intensively
with the topic process modelling within public
administrations and the de
the conclusion that pub
integrated platform for de
oriented and transparent in their day-to-day business.
The high level of interest in our work coming from
representatives of different administrative
organisations makes us confident that we are on the
right way helping e-government projects become
successful.
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