Using Blockchain Technology for Cross-Organizational Process Mining – Concept and Case Study

Tönnissen, Stefan; Teuteberg, Frank

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-20482-2_11

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“…Next to the previously described articles that included an actual implementation of their framework, Tönnissen and Teuteberg (2019) present an abstract concept that connects so far separated intra-organizational systems (e.g. enterprise resource planning systems) through a blockchain, where smart contracts collect the data from one organization and forward it to a second one.…”

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Laying the ground for future cross-organizational process mining research and application: a literature review

Rott,

Böhm,

Krcmar

2024

BPMJ

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Purpose Process mining (PM) has emerged as a leading technology for gaining data-based insights into organizations’ business processes. As processes increasingly cross-organizational boundaries, firms need to conduct PM jointly with multiple organizations to optimize their operations. However, current knowledge on cross-organizational process mining (coPM) is widely dispersed. Therefore, we synthesize current knowledge on coPM, identify challenges and enablers of coPM, and build a socio-technical framework and agenda for future research.Design/methodology/approach We conducted a literature review of 66 articles and summarized the findings according to the framework for Information Technology (IT)-enabled inter-organizational coordination (IOC) and the refined PM framework. The former states that within inter-organizational relationships, uncertainty sources determine information processing needs and coordination mechanisms determine information processing capabilities, while the fit between needs and capabilities determines the relationships’ performance. The latter distinguishes three categories of PM activities: cartography, auditing and navigation.Findings Past literature focused on coPM techniques, for example, algorithms for ensuring privacy and PM for cartography. Future research should focus on socio-technical aspects and follow four steps: First, determine uncertainty sources within coPM. Second, design, develop and evaluate coordination mechanisms. Third, investigate how the mechanisms assist with handling uncertainty. Fourth, analyze the impact on coPM performance. In addition, we present 18 challenges (e.g. integrating distributed data) and 9 enablers (e.g. aligning different strategies) for coPM application.Originality/valueThis is the first article to systematically investigate the status quo of coPM research and lay out a socio-technical research agenda building upon the well-established framework for IT-enabled IOC.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Laying the ground for future cross-organizational process mining research and application: a literature review

Rott,

Böhm,

Krcmar

2024

BPMJ

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“…Federated process mining has been explored by researchers from different angles and in different contexts from EDIsupported inter-organizational business processes [3] to the application of Blockchain technology in cross-organizational process mining [8]. The majority of papers in this field focused on the application of process mining in supply chains [9]- [11], while supply chains are one of the types of interoperability among organizations.…”

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“…In [40], the authors propose an approach to compare collections of process models and their event logs recorded in different Dutch municipalities. Furthermore, cloud computing [41] and blockchains [8] have been recognized as opportunities within the cross-organizational process mining context. In [9], an approach is proposed to discover distributed processes VOLUME 4, 2016 in supply chains.…”

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An Abstraction-Based Approach for Privacy-Aware Federated Process Mining

Rafiei

Aalst

2023

IEEE Access

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“…(2018) suggested the potential use of blockchain technology for business process management in privacy-ensuring ways within participating organizations in a cross-organizational scenario. Tönnissen and Teuteberg (2019) propose a blockchain-based solution to create a complete event log for cross-organizational process mining where media breaks occur frequently. Müller et al.…”

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ProcessChain: a blockchain-based framework for privacy preserving cross-organizational business process mining from distributed event logs

Singh,

Jenamani

2023

BPMJ

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to design a consortium-blockchain based framework for cross-organizational business process mining complying with privacy requirements.Design/methodology/approachBusiness process modeling in a cross-organizational setting is complicated due to privacy concerns. The process mining in this situation occurs through trusted third parties (TTPs). It uses a special class of Petri-nets called workflow nets (WF-nets) to represent the formal specifications of event logs in a blockchain-enabled cross-organization.FindingsUsing a smart contract algorithm, the proposed framework discovers the organization-specific business process models (BPM) without a TTP. The discovered BPMs are formally represented using WF-nets with a message factor to support the authors’ claim. Finally, the applicability and suitability of the proposed framework is demonstrated using a case study of multimodal transportation.Originality/valueThe proposed framework complies with privacy requirements. It shows how to represent the formal specifications of event logs in a blockchain using a special class of Petri-nets called WF-nets. It also presents a smart contract algorithm to discover organization-specific business process models (BPM) without a TTP.

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Using Blockchain Technology for Cross-Organizational Process Mining – Concept and Case Study

Cited by 6 publications

References 14 publications

Laying the ground for future cross-organizational process mining research and application: a literature review

Laying the ground for future cross-organizational process mining research and application: a literature review

An Abstraction-Based Approach for Privacy-Aware Federated Process Mining

ProcessChain: a blockchain-based framework for privacy preserving cross-organizational business process mining from distributed event logs

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