Index
E
Eager flows, 321
e-business, generating order processing alternatives for (process specialization example), 149–55
eBusiness case examples, in Process Handbook, 244, 246
eBusiness Process Handbook (ePH), 222
Economic order quantity, 56
Economics
classical microeconomics, 80
and coordination, 60, 80–81
and resource allocation, 53
Editorial challenge, 35–36
Electronic auction house, 446
Electronic communication media, 466. See also Internet; Web site; World Wide Web
Electronic yellow pages, 71
''Empty world hypothesis,'' 104
Engineering handbooks, 6–7
Enterprise Modeling project, University of Toronto, 551–52
Enterprise resource planning systems (ERP), 525
Entity specialization, 122, 503–504
Entry in Process Handbook (sample), 223–29
Epistemologies, positivist vs. antipositivist, 183
Eppinger, Steven, 242
European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Model, 241–42
Event condition-action rules (ECA), 542
Exact flow dependencies, 435
Exception(s), 452n
in process support system, 533
as represented in Process Handbook, 253, 256
taxonomy of, 253, 256, 429, 431
Exception handlers, 424, 429, 432
taxonomy of, 432, 433
Exceptions analysis methodology, 424–34
and Barings Bank failure, 434–38
challenge to, 423–24
Execution set, maximal, 168
Execution set semantics
maximal, 134, 135, 156n, 162
minimal, 134, 156n, 157–58
Exhaustive process decomposition, 147
as refinement, 168–73
Expert systems, 419
Expressiveness, in design conflict management repository, 461–62
Extension semantics, 134–35
''Families'' of related processes, 42. See also ''Cousins''; ''Sibling''