While companies in the 90's focused on the design and implementation of their internal business processes to overcome functional barriers, the 00's are about the integration between enterprises, about inter-enterprise processes. These changing management paradigms are reflected in a changing information technology focus: The focus moves from integrated intra-enterprise application packages to internet based "e-enabled" and inter-enterprise focused application software. The resulting "e-business processes", i.e., inter-enterprise processes supported through e-enabled technology, across multiple organizations require a well suited approach for business processes management [1][2]. This paper discusses methods, tools and procedures of an approach for design, implementation and continuous improvement of these e-business processes, i.e., for e-business process lifecycle management. The approach describes how to build and manage collaborative e-business scenarios.
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