Document-Centric Workflow Process

A Document-Centric Workflow Process is a content lifecycle management (an organizational workflow) for document-centric processes (whose input are documents).

• AKA: Document Lifecycle Management.
• Context:
  • It can be measure in Paperwork Measures (that slow down day-to-day operations).
  • It can (typically) be a part of a Document Management Process.
  • It can (often) be supported by a Document Workflow Management System / Document Management System (possibly supported by a document-centric workflow platform).
  • It can (often) be summarized by a Document Workflow Process Report.
  • It can (often) be represented by a Document Workflow Process Model.
  • It can (often) involve: document creation, document retrieval, document indexing, document version control, document access control, document approvals, and document workflow.
  • It can range from being Electronic Document Workflow Process (of electronic documents) to being Physical Document Workflow Process (of physical documents).
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• Example(s):
  • Legal Contract Workflow (within contract management)
  • Medical Records Workflow (within medical records management).
  • Corporate Policy Workflow (within corporate policy management).
  • Project Documentation Workflow (within project document management).
  • Job Offer Workflow.
  • Clinical Research Document Workflow.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • an Issue Management.
• See: Document Collection, Corpus Management, Knowledge Management, Records Management, Enterprise Content Management, Digital Asset Management, Organizational Document.

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References

2023

• (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_management_system Retrieved:2023-7-23.
  • A document management system (DMS) is usually a computerized system used to store, share, track and manage files or documents. Some systems include history tracking where a log of the various versions created and modified by different users is recorded. The term has some overlap with the concepts of content management systems. It is often viewed as a component of enterprise content management (ECM) systems and related to digital asset management, document imaging, workflow systems and records management systems.

2020

• https://www.document-logistix.com/workflow-management/digital-workflows/document-workflow.html
  • QUOTE: ... Document workflow management is a system used to capture, generate, track, edit, approve, store, retrieve, retain and destroy documents associated with business processes. Digital document workflow helps organisations to reduce often large amounts of paperwork that slow down day-to-day operations. Purchase orders, invoices, holiday requests, proof of delivery, despatch, payroll, vehicle documents, supply chain information, claim forms, insurances, and more. The majority of businesses are document-heavy and how documents are managed affects running costs, staff productivity, profitability and customer satisfaction. Documents get passed from one department to the next, requiring approval or changes at each stop ...

2011

• (Leukel et al., 2011) ⇒ Joerg Leukel, Michael Schuele, Andreas Scheuermann, Dominic Ressel and Wiltrud Kessler. (2011). “Cooperative Semantic Document Management ". Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, 2011, Volume 87, Part 8. [doi>10.1007/978-3-642-21863-7_22]
  • QUOTE: Document management concerns the storage, retrieval, and presentation of documents being created from multiple sources and delivered to different users. Semantic approaches for [Document Management Task|document management]] are based on enriching metadata and deriving semantic document models.

2007

• (Saracoglu et al., 2007) ⇒ Rıdvan Saraçoğlu, Kemal Tütüncüa, Novruz Allahverdia. (2007). “A Fuzzy Clustering Approach for Finding Similar Documents Using a Novel Similarity Meansure.” In: Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal, (33)3. doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2006.06.002
  • QUOTE: Searching for similar documents has a crucial role in document management.

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