Rabe, M., Kilic, E.:. Framing the Digital Business Process Twin: From a Holistic Maturity Model to a Specific and Substantial Use Case in the Automotive Industry. In: De Weerdt, J.; Pufahl, L. (Hrsg.) Business Process Management Workshops BPM 2023. Cham: Springer 2024., pp. 353-364.

The digital twin is a frequent subject of discussion in both academia and industry. High expectations are placed on the concept of the digital twin across many industries. The idea of transferring and adapting this concept to business processes reveals new potentials, perspectives, and paths for the advanced digital transformation of enterprises. The effective exploitation of the potentials of the digital twin in the business process context is of priority for many business sectors. While the idea of a business-process-related digital twin has already been discussed in academia, there is still a lack of holistic, proven, and well-defined real-world use cases. This paper aims to deliver a substantial and valuable contribution to the research regarding the integration of digital twins and business processes through understanding and describing the expected and realistic capabilities of the digital twin for business processes. This is achieved through the development of two deliverables: The thesis of this paper is positioned around the novel idea that the development of a business-process-related digital twin must follow an evolutionary course based on consecutive steps. This position is supported and reinforced by a first unique maturity model to distinguish between the development stages of a digital twin for business processes. As the second deliverable, the functionality of the depicted digital business process twin is applied and discussed within the perimeter of a specific use case from the automotive industry. The novelty of this paper results from the integration of the terms digital model, digital shadow, and digital twin into a maturity-based concept in the spotlight of business processes. The novelty is driven by applying this concept to a real-world scenario.