Blockchains for Business Process Management - Challenges and Opportunities

By Jan Mendling, Ingo M. Weber, Wil M.P. van der Aalst, Jan vom Brocke, C. Cabanillas, F. Daniel, S. Debois, Claudio Di Ciccio, Marlon Dumas, Schahram Dustdar and 22 more. ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, 2017

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Blockchain technology offers a sizable promise to rethink the way interorganizational business processes are managed because of its potential to realize execution without a central party serving as a single point of trust (and failure). To stimulate research on this promise and the limits thereof, in this article, we outline the challenges and opportunities of blockchain for business process management (BPM). We first reflect how blockchains could be used in the context of the established BPM lifecycle and second how they might become relevant beyond. We conclude our discourse with a summary of seven research directions for investigating the application of blockchain technology in the context of BPM.

Subfields: Information Systems, Management Information Systems

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Blockchain technology and its relationships to sustainable supply chain management (2018, background): “Also, adopting blockchain technology in supply chain processes requires new roles, responsibilities, and expertise to support different facets of adopting technology (Mendling et al. 2017).”
Unearthing the determinants of Blockchain adoption in supply chain management (2020, background): “Adopting BCSCM would redeﬁne roles, expertise and responsibilities in different facets (Mendling et al. 2018).”
Supply chain risk management and artificial intelligence: state of the art and future research directions (2018, neutral): “Blockchains are just one example of a promising technology that has the potential to increase trust among supply chain partners and increase adoption of techniques that rely on access to data (Mendling et al. 2018).”
A Survey of Blockchain Technology Applied to Smart Cities: Research Issues and Challenges (2019, background): “Due to the redundancy in computation, the PoW is not an energy efficient approach and consumes a large amount of electricity energy [226], [228], [244].”
Blockchain for Industry 4.0: A Comprehensive Review (2020, background): “Mendling et al. [139] discussed the execution of business processes beyond organizational boundaries through the blockchain without the inclusion of any trusted third party, although the authors did not explain how to resolve the existing issues such as latency, bandwidth, throughput, and size in…”