Toward Cost-Effective Business Process Compliance

Abstract

Checking and ensuring business process compliance (BPC) can be very costly, especially given redundant or conflicting compliance requirements or intensive regulation in general. Although managing BPC in a cost-effective way is critical for organisations, corresponding methods and procedures are lacking. This paper outlines a research agenda for developing a mathematical method and a procedural model for assessing the cost-effectiveness of BPC. The research agenda bases on design science research (DSR) paradigm and describes the implementation of corresponding DSR steps according to Peffers et al.