The sign of our time is the amazing speed with which changes in the business world happen. This requires an increasing agility from the enterprises: their structures, processes and decision-making mechanisms. Started by F. Taylor and H. Ford, a pursuit of process optimization, automation and efficiency resulted in creation of workflow concept, where a process is considered as a (predefined) flow of tasks, where the human involvement is minimized.

Agile enterprise means agile decision making on all levels to quickly react on changes in the world, and even be proactive. In IS engineering, it means greater importance of the role of knowledge worker who has an advantage over any automated workflow of being able to adapt to the situations. A focus on agility requires a paradigm shift in the enterprise computing. A novel paradigm promotes process execution rules being less prescriptive and supports knowledge workers, giving them the opportunity to creatively use their knowledge and experience in volatile environments. These topics are highly relevant to the themes of EDOC.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss theoretical and practical problems and solutions in the area of non-workflow based approaches to BPM in general, and Adaptive Case Management (as a leading movement) in particular. This workshop is aimed to promote new, non-traditional ways of modeling and controlling business processes, the ones that foster collaboration and creativity in the frame of business processes.