Process Constitutions and Process Stewards: Towards the Next Generation of BPM for Agentic Organizations

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arXiv:2610.05942v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 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