Process Mining Café

Epizody

• 1: Data Requirements for New IT Systems 24.11.2020 47min

  Imagine your company introduces a new IT system and you have the opportunity to influence the data that will be collected. You want to make sure that the data is suitable for your process mining analyses in the future. Which data properties exactly will you need to ensure in the new system? We made a checklist for you, so you don't forget something essential.
• 2: From Research to Practice 16.12.2020 1h 22min

  Our conversation with Hajo Reijers, Professor for Business Process Management & Analytics at Utrecht University. We talked about how processes are made of people, his interest in empirical research methods, industry cooperations with master students, two new research papers from this year and many other things.
• 3: Customer Journey Analysis 20.01.2021 1h 44min

  In a customer journey analysis, you look at the process from the viewpoint of the customer. Daisy gives us an overview about her recent analysis of the user journey on the “Start a Business” part of the GOV.UK website, and Rudi takes us through the three main challenges that you will encounter when you analyze customer journeys with process mining.
• 4: Legacy Systems 24.02.2021 1h 4min

  Legacy systems are old, often mission-critical systems that can cause quite some headaches for their owners. Replacing these old systems is not easy, precisely because so much knowledge has been poured into them. Derek Russell and Steve Kilner joined us to talk about the different approaches to legacy system mining.
• 5: Healthcare 23.03.2021 1h 18min

  Healthcare is a very interesting but also challenging application area for process mining. For example, a data set with 1000 cases can easily have 1000 variants, because every patient follows a unique path. Together with Luise Pufahl and Fran Batchelor we discuss the specific challenges of the healthcare domain along the phases of a typical process mining project.
• 6: Freestyle Data Transformation 28.04.2021 1h 7min

  What can you do if your data — at least at first sight — does not seem suitable for process mining at all? You look for “sequences of stuff”. Léonard Studer shares three examples of how he transformed problematic data, created non-existent data from file system logs, and even manually transcribed data in different scenarios.
• 7: Public Administration 07.06.2021 1h 20min

  Introducing process mining at an organization is never easy. Together with Vincent, Lewis, and Richard we talk about the strategies that worked for UWV, and about the success factors for one concrete project. All their tips are relevant not only for public administrations but for all organizations who want to introduce process mining.
• 8: Strategy and Execution 08.09.2021 1h 24min

  There is often a divide between the strategy and the execution world in process mining. The people who are dealing with strategy are different from the people who are executing. Bogdan Ciungu joined us to discuss how organizations can bridge this divide. We talk about use cases, RFIs, and we show a concrete example for a business case.
• 9: Privacy, Security, and Ethics 06.10.2021 1h 25min

  Process miners need to be aware of their responsibility, both around the data and in how they present their analysis results. Together with Dirk Fahland and Felix Mannhardt we share many practical tips that you can start implementing today. We also discuss new research in the area of responsible data science.
• 10: Perspectives 18.11.2021 1h 35min

  When you analyze a data set with process mining, you take a process perspective on your data. This perspective is determined by what you choose as the case ID, activity name, and timestamp during the import step. Marco Montali talks with us about the various process mining perspectives and their ontology-based data extraction approach.
• 11: Manufacturing 16.12.2021 1h 11min

  Stefanie Rinderle-Ma showed us how their open source process engine steers production processes. A nice side-effect of their system is that it collects data that can be used for process mining again! We also talked about the power of domain knowledge, how process mining can leverage sensor data, and realistic expectations for automation.
• 12: Change Management 31.01.2022 1h 28min

  Organizational change is hard. As a process miner, you run into this challenge as soon as you have identified potential improvements and need to implement them. How do you get people on board? And how do you get them to stick with you in the new way? We talked with Sebastiaan van Rijsbergen and Roger Schmid about the strategies that have worked for them.
• 13: Lean Six Sigma 02.03.2022 1h 58min

  The Lean Six Sigma methodology provides a practical and customer value-focused framework for making improvements. Rudi and Anne talk about how process mining fits into Lean and Six Sigma, based on a concrete example. We also discuss where process mining changes the traditional Lean Six Sigma approach.
• 14: Forensics 30.03.2022 1h

  Process mining may not be the right tool for fraud detection. However, it can help us understand what happened after an attack, for example, by visualizing the intruder's path. Lucas Vousten and Vincenzo Salden talk about how process mining can help IT security and dive into a concrete forensics example based on a ransomware attack.
• 15: Simulation 28.04.2022 1h 36min

  What if you had twice as many people? What if you didn't do that process step? Simulation allows you to test complex “what if”-scenarios without having to make the change in the real world (yet). But it's not easy! Together with Lambros Viennas and Sudhendu Rai we show how you can use process mining as a starting point for your simulation model.
• 16: Project vs Process 18.05.2022 1h 23min

  Project-driven organizations like construction companies approach everything from a project perspective. However, process improvement initiatives require process awareness. How do you deal with this as a process mining practitioner? We speak with Fred van Middendorp about project vs. process thinking.
• 17: Data Quality 07.09.2022 1h 13min

  Garbage in, garbage out! Data quality is essential for any data analysis technique. If you base your analysis on data, you must ensure that the data is correct. Otherwise, your results will be wrong. With Kanika Goel and Niels Martin, we talk about the specific data quality problems you encounter in process mining projects.
• 18: Process of Process Mining 20.10.2022 1h 3min

  How exactly are people performing their analyses? Are they first exploring or immediately answering questions? And how do they deal with new questions that come up in the process? Pnina Soffer, Barbara Weber and Francesca Zerbato share their experiences from this new sub-field in the process mining research area.
• 19: Auditing 01.02.2023 1h 18min

  Process mining does not replace the traditional audit approach. However, it requires some changes and a conscious effort to fit process mining into the existing way of working. In some places, more work is needed. In other places, things get easier. Together with Jasmine and Andreas, we talk about their data-driven audit approach with process mining step by step.
• 20: Game Analytics 01.03.2023 59min

  Magy gives an overview of the different types of games and traditional game analytics. We look at examples, where her group has used process mining to understand the flow of games. We also talk about the ethics of using game analytics to make games more addictive and discuss the challenge of abstracting the data to the right level.