Guest article by Prof. Stiehl on business portal "Beyond the obvious"

Prof. Dr. Volker Stiehl, Professor for Business Informatics and Development of Enterprise Applications at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt (THI), has published a guest article on the well-known portal for strategy and macroeconomics "Beyond the obvious". In his essay, Stiehl considers the process-driven approach as a solution option both for increasing productivity in digitization projects and for avoiding technical debt in IT.

According to Stiehl, companies and institutions without quickly maintainable and easily adaptable software solutions are faced with a further increasing accumulation of technical debts, especially in times of crisis when digitization is in demand, which can lead to the inability to act. This could be counteracted with the process-driven approach.

According to Prof. Stiehl, professional innovations through processes are necessary in every industry, whether it is the introduction of a new business model or the optimization of an existing one. The still relatively new process-controlled approach, according to Stiehl, is a possibility here for comprehensive productivity increases. The approach describes both the methodical procedure and the architecture of the necessary software solutions in the crystallization of processes - it is thus clearly superior to pure programming. Moreover, it is processes that show the way to the use of technologies, not vice versa. Processes and current IT trends such as artificial intelligence (AI) are not mutually exclusive. On the contrary: AI can only reach its full potential when combined with processes, e.g. by preparing decisions or directly introducing them into the process.

Further details on these points can be found in the article at: https://think-beyondtheobvious.com/produktion-steigern-durch-prozessdigitalisierung/