2 Literature review
2.1 Business process management
BPM has been explained by various authors [16, 17].
According to Lindsay et al. [18], BPM strives to better
understand the key mechanisms of a business to improve
and in some cases to radically change the business performance
by identifying opportunities for new business,
outsourcing, improving business efficiency and using
technology within different areas of the business to support
business processes. Van der Aalst et al. [17] suggested that
BPM was a field of knowledge that covered the use of
various methods, techniques and technologies to support
business process changes, encouraging employees to
become more involved. More recently, Chang [16] defined
BPM as a process-oriented organisational approach used to
design, analyse and improve business processes to effectively
manage and improve organisational performance. In
summary, BPM utilises both incremental and radical
methodologies, focusing on processes, technology and the
involvement of people to ensure that customer satisfaction
is achieved in an effective way.