Process Constitutions and Process Stewards: Towards the Next Generation of BPM for Agentic Organizations
Business Process Management (BPM) was built on a foundational assumption that organizations are populated primarily by human actors whose work can be made visible, governable, and improvable through process models. That assumption is depreciating. AI agent ecosystems increasingly execute, coordinate, and adapt organizational work with limited human direction, challenging not only BPM's methods but its core conception of what a process is. We argue that BPM faces a constitutive shift from modeling human work to governing autonomous agents, for which we propose two new concepts: the \emph{Process Constitution}, a machine-interpretable, value-laden framework that defines the space of admissi...
| Authors | Amin Jalali, Majid Rafiei |
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| Primary category | cs.AI |
| Published | 5 October 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 5 October 2026 |
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