%0 Journal Article
%T Innovative Consistency in Organisations – Business Process Management Perspective
%A Flieger, Michał
%J International Journal of Contemporary Management
%V 2017
%R 10.4467/24498939IJCM.17.025.7545
%N Numer 16(3)
%P 125-138
%K consistency, process management, consistency platforms, organisational innovations
%@ 2449-8920
%D 2018
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/international-journal-of-contemporary-management/artykul/innovative-consistency-in-organisations-business-process-management-perspective
%X 
	
		Background. Getting competitive advantage is a process that becomes more and more difficult in nowadays’ organisations. Today not only do business organizations compete but also public ones. That makes the search for new ways of effectiveness even more up to date problem. One of the area in which this advantage is built is organisational structures. When it comes to the structures, process management and process organisations are very often introduced. The concept of organizational consistency may be related to eny organization but as process structures are the future of organization the consistency is analysed from process perspective. 
	
		Research aims. The article is to introduce and operationalize the consistency theory from the perspective of process organizations. This way scholars as well as practitioners will be able to get to know this perspective of harmonization in organisation and use it in practise. 
	
		Methodology. To recognize consistency and its nature theoretical discussion takes place in the article. It is based on the literature but mostly comes from the Author’s own ideas.
	
		Key findings. In the article the consistency problem is presented as the way to be innovative and to achieve competitive advantage. The article also presents the perspectives and platforms from which the consistency may by analysed. The perspectives as well as their explanations have been introduced in this paper. As the article presents there is a need to operationalize consistency concept deeper so that is is more understandable especially for practice.