Business process patterns and frameworks: Reusing knowledge in process innovation

A common theme in the more recent Business Process (BP) literature is the search for approaches that allow formalizing domain knowledge into structures, patterns or frameworks, which can be reused to facilitate process redesign and support systems development [2, 8, 9, 12, 20, 26, 27]. The objective of these structures is to simplify and accelerate process innovation. These types of structures are also known as Enterprise Architectures (EA) and can be developed for different organizational levels [14]. Here we will consider the levels of BP and IT systems.