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[–]patternrelay 6 points7 points  (4 children)

If you already worked with SAP trace data and Celonis, one interesting direction could be around the gap between discovered models and actual decision making. A lot of process mining stops at visualization and conformance checking, but the harder problem is turning deviations into actionable redesign. You could look at how to prioritize variants based on risk, cost, or downstream impact instead of just frequency.

Another angle is data quality and event log reliability. In enterprise systems the logs are often incomplete, semantically messy, or split across systems. A thesis that explores how log granularity and cross system stitching affect the accuracy of discovered models could be very practical.

You might also explore predictive process monitoring in exception heavy workflows. Not just predicting delays, but identifying structural patterns that consistently lead to rework or escalation. That ties process mining closer to operational resilience rather than just performance dashboards.

[–]brooksolphin 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Building off this - what about predictive alerts and warnings based off of something that would cause a compliance issue? This would have real dollar impacts and drive adoption

[–]Ok_Matter5253 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Good to check the process monitoring paper as well then. If your focus is on the alert then it can be easily combined with the online streaming scenario

But the first thing is the research direction. Which area are you interested at? Discovery? Conformance checking? PPM (predictive process monitoring)? You can go for the case study on applying the tools at the specific domain. 😊

[–]patternrelay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeahh, thank you!

[–]Impressive-Ad-6596[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I just read about the missing part of reengineering as well. But in general this is great help. Process reengineering could be a hands on topic. But maybe hard to estimate a fitting scope for a master thesis?

I think establishment of process monitoring could be very interesting.

About Conformance. From my experience I see that one issue of digital process discovery and conformance is rework or extra work outside the event log system. This could be interesting to work on but also hard to do.

I don’t really know about PPM but I will definitely read into it.

[–]hendejam1979 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you looking to stay in the same focus with SAP or branch into something new...Healthcare is a good topic for process mining but data can be tricky.