Using a Process Approach to Pandemic Planning: A Case Study

The purpose of this article was to demonstrate the difference between a pandemic plan's textual prescription and its effective processing using graphical notation. Before creating a case study of the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) of the Czech Republic's pandemic plan, we conducted a systematic review of the process approach in pandemic planning and a document analysis of relevant public documents. The authors emphasized the opacity of hundreds of pages of text records in an explanatory case study and demonstrated the effectiveness of the process approach in reengineering and improving the response to such a critical situation. A potential extension to the automation and involvement of SMART technologies or process optimization through process mining techniques is presented as a future research topic.

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The article demonstrates the difference between a pandemic plan's textual prescription and its effective processing using graphical notation, with a case study of the Czech Republic's pandemic plan. It emphasizes the effectiveness of the process approach in reengineering and improving the response to critical situations, and suggests potential future research directions involving automation, SMART technologies, and process mining techniques for process optimization.