Center for Process Innovation (CEPRIN) is a college-level research unit within J. Mack Robinson College of Business . The Center was founded in January 2004 in collaboration between the college and Georgia Research Alliance. CEPRIN focuses on “end-to-end business process innovation”; we collaborate closely with industry partners; and we involve a multi-disciplinary group of researchers in our activities.

 CEPRIN’s research embraces the following issues:

• The efficient and responsive satisfaction of an end-consumers’ need for a good or service through the study and improvement of the physical and informational flows and the processes they connect with.
• The transitions across organizational boundaries of such flows and the multiplicity of issues this creates in terms of information sharing, benefit distribution, legal impediments, trust, risk management, and mutual cooperation.
• The need for visibility over the entire process and for effective means to measure and improve its flows.
• The ability to rapidly reconfigure and amend networks to more quickly respond to changes in market needs and economic opportunities.
• The development and implementation of information services and infrastructures that support transactions and networking across organizational boundaries.

CEPRIN’s partnership model with industry implies strategic and symmetric relationships with a few industry partners. Problems within our partners’ organizations are key drivers of the Center’s research which in turn contribute to problem solving and innovation in the partnering organizations.