Visionary Engagements -- The Relevance of Management of Business Processes and Orchestration -- The Power of ‘As-Is’ Processes -- The Method behind Subject Orientation – The Missing Link between Individuals and Machines in Regard to Truth -- Establishing an Informed S-BPM Community -- Business Process Management — S-BPM a New Paradigm for Competitive Advantage? -- Application of Subject-Oriented Modeling in Automatic Service Composition -- Essential Capabilities -- What Is S-BPM? -- Case Study: The Process Portal – Process-as-a-Service Central Platform for Work-, Information- and Knowledge Processes in the Company -- Case Study: AST Order Control Processing -- Penetration Perspectives -- Potential Building Blocks of S-BPM -- Quo Vadis, S-BPM? The First World-Café on S-BPM Developments.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Workshop on Subject-Oriented Business Process Management, S-BPM ONE 2009, held in Karlsruhe, Germany, in October 2009. The papers are organized in topical sections on visionary engagements; essential capabilities; and penetration perspectives.