Business Conversation Manager: Facilitating People Interactions in Outsourcing Service Engagements

:  Business Conversation Manager: Facilitating People Interactions in Outsourcing Service Engagements Hamid R. Motahari-Nezhad, Sven Graupner, Sharad Singhal HP Laboratories HPL-2010-106 Ad-hoc Business Processes, Collaborations, Outsourcing Services People involved in outsourcing services work through collaboration, conversations and ad-hoc activities and often follow guidelines that are described in best practice frameworks. There are two main issues hindering the efficient support of best practice frameworks in outsourcing services: lack of visibility into how the work is done that prevents repeatability, and conducting best practice processes that are ad-hoc and dynamically defined and refined. In this paper, we present Business Conversation Manager (BCM) that enables and drives business conversations among people around best practice processes. It supports the dynamic definition and refinement of a process in a collaborative and flexible manner. The ad-hoc processes are backed ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: ICWE
• Authors: Hamid R. Motahari Nezhad, Sven Graupner, Sharad Singhal
• Keywords: Ad-hoc, Business Conversation Manager, ICWE 2010, Internet Technology, Outsourcing Services