Integrating Business Processes and Knowledge Infrastructures

The integration of available knowledge management technologies, concepts and methods into organizational business processes is a pressing and challenging research issue today. Researches and practitioners in the areas of process and knowledge management alike seek for solutions that aid the flexible alignment of knowledge management efforts to an organization’s most value generating activities. The advantages inherent in such efforts are manifold: The execution of business processes is supported from a knowledge perspective, the economic benefit of knowledge management can be illustrated more easily and knowledge management activities become “alive” because of the integration in organizational business processes which in turn thrives business performance. The special issue “Integrating Business Processes and Knowledge Infrastructures” makes more detailed versions of the contributions to BPOKI’04 available. BPOKI’04 is a special track series on Business Process Oriented Knowledge Infrastructures that took place the first time during I-Know’04, the 4 International Conference on Knowledge Management (http://www.iknow.at/BPOKI). The purpose of this special issue is to provide readers with an overview of up-todate research on the intersection between business process and knowledge management. Contributions of this special issue consider both, organizational as well as technological aspects of this topic, and fall in one of the following four categories: 1) Business Process Modelling 2) Business Process Learning 3) Business Process Support and 4) Business Process Execution.