I would recommend read the following textbook:

- Paula Berman (2014) Successful Business Process Management: What You Need to Know to Get Results, Special Edition, AMAZON.

Thank you Mr. Vemić and Mr. Judeh the recommended books.They looks very good for my idea. However I hope I will get some other suggestions as well :-)

My recommendation is:

Weske, M., Business process management: concepts, languages, architectures. 2012, Berlin, Germany: Springer.

I shall check it at my home and shall tell you tomorrow

Wow Leonadis,

And thank you, when I have the time and energy I will read all of it through and the references that I might be able to access of interest.

My initial interest developed in R&D Project Management in Pharmaceutical Companies in the early 1980's when it did not exist! Moving on to R&D Strategic Planning then Corporate. I turned around a new Worldwide Project Management Department in the USA, 84-86 For me the decision making process was the driver for team work and then, or alongside, Senior Management involvement.

I worked on all of these, self taught initially, although allowed to attend both Strategic Management, Project Management and other relevant courses/conferences, along the way. Based in the UK/US then back to the UK that formed the basis for future management of the 'projects portfolios' by relatively senior employees, full time, like Medics or Department Heads from Research or Development.

On a number of occasions I worked with top Management Consultancies, to assist in 'activity value analysis' (McKinsey) and open downsizing with a London based company, based in Piccadilly, whose name escapes me; they probably merged with someone else!

One of the consultants from the latter recommended a book, 'The Pyramid Principle' by Barbara Minto ) eternally relevant, to add to my already expanding book collection. From basic Project Management to the gurus of the e.g. Tom Peters, 80s/90s .

In addition, attendance on a Management Course related to predicting scenarios to predict the future in 2020, run by a small Californian group of entrepreneurs (they worked for many large global companies, developing strategies). I have a book somewhere in a box with a title that includes 2020. This was invaluable and relevant to any industry. They had recently done a major project for Disney! Wish I could find it since I recall its contents reveal some of the things that we have reached already.

I worked for R&D Management Consulting, as it was just starting up, from 1992 - 4, working with large Pharmaceutical Companies with Headquarters, based all over Continental Europe and the USA. Then got involved, independently, with companies in Italy, Milwaukee/UK, small start up companies, Ciba Geigy, Roche.

Then a permanent post with a start up company responsible , among other things, for the development from scratch of a pharmaceutical formulation. The aim was to get a product suitable and acceptable to the relevant government departments for a volunteer study in healthy men. This used all my developed expertise and more, given I had no internal assistance available and limited funds. However, the appropriate strain of cannabis was sourced, grown legally in the UK, then used to extract Tetra Hydro Cannabinol (THC, one of the active components). This was successful.

Then I bunt out physically and mentally, never having applied the appropriate work ethic, working 24/7 for 22 years! 16 years later, still a single incapacitated straight female, I live in a type of work mode applying it to everyday life that is available, following the scientific and management R&D at a distance, with interest, fully knowing that I am already finding it difficult to adapt, skills +++ to the current mode of life, not helped by never having children to watch develop.

Sorry to provide a life history, but you reminded me of the only part of my life i really enjoyed. Getting three unfunded university degrees helped; I discovered last week that my PhD thesis has just been digitised, uploaded, and now available to read. Incredible!

There is breifing textbooks published by bookboon.com.

I suggest to visit the website of the bookboon publisher and download free ebooks as the publisher has provided on the webpage.

You can select the book that you feel it is easy to understand

Best wishes

Prof. Traeq Shareef

American College of Dubai

WOOOOWWWW, it became a very hot topic :-) Thank you Leonidas A. Papakonstantinidis and Prof. Traeq Shareef. It was a very busy week and tomorrow I will have an MBA course. I promise I will read everything in details soon. I know bookboon.com and I have some textbooks form there. But I was wondering this huge community of scientist could recommend me. Thanks for all!!!

Dear Leonidas,

Thank you for all of your insights and detailed suggestions. Those course are very interetsting, and 10-15 years ago I passed some small ones as management consultant, but in the Hungarian academic area it is not supported. And let's say the official education of the academic educators is not in practise. We are forced to find out and create differenct courses and subjects, and we should collect all the materials and information on our own. Yess maybe it's called freedom, but - as you wrote - the cooperation and interactions are important to get into win-win situation.

Of course we use game theory in many fields, when we try to show the importance of cooperation. In my organization development subjects and coaching course we use to practise it's using, and in the busieness studies it is also come out with the topic of strategyic partnership and the relations with suppliers and consumers.

This Process managment topic will be on BA level, so I would like to focus on the basic technical terms and the basic methodologies of process design and adjusting. (Process map, lean tools, agile tools....etc.)

Your concept of win-win-win modell is very interetsting for me, as we teach the stakeholders concept and the adventages of open innovation models for business entites. I should collect some more info about it, and I can integrate it in my Business Economics course.

So I'm really happy your answer, and this chance to get to know you through RG platform.

Regards,

Attila

Interesting.