Knowledge and Business Process Management

In today's competitive and global business environments' knowledge is recognized as one of the most important strategic assets for modern organizations. In the light of this, knowledge management (KM) continues to receive much attention both from the academic and business communities. With improvements in IT-based systems for handling knowledge, KM is becoming an essential theme of research into business success as well as a subject of new business initiatives. Knowledge and Business Process Management provides a unique and timely compilation of multi-disciplinary views related to knowledge and business process management.

Vlatka Hlupic received a Dipl.Econ. and an M.Sc. in Information Systems from the University of Zagreb, and a Ph.D. in Information Systems at the London School of Economics, UK as well as a CEng from the UK Engineering Council and Eur Ing from the European Federation of National Engineering Associations. She is a senior lecturer at Brunel University, at the Department of Information Systems and Computing, and a director of the REBUS (REengineering BUSiness Processes) research centre. Dr. Hlupic has published over 100 papers in journals, books and conference proceedings, mainly in the area of knowledge management, business process change and simulation modelling. As an European Engineer and Chartered Engineer, she acts as a consultant for a variety of service and manufacturing companies, as well as having managed various research projects.