T06 Business Process Management Business Process Management (BPM) has evolved into a widely deployed and comprehensively studied discipline. It comprises activities such as the identification, definition and modelling of business processes, their implementation and execution, monitoring, mining and control as well as continuous and disruptive improvement. Enterprise-wide BPM requires capabilities such as governance, methods, information technology, culture, people, and strategic alignment. This track specifically focuses on the face of BPM in a digital world. With the emergence of the opportunity-rich landscape of ubiquitous digitalization, the established, analysis-intensive BPM methods and tools are no longer sufficient to capitalize on the affordances of contemporary information systems. BPM needs to further develop its intellectual core and methodological basis to strengthen its exploratory, opportunity-driven capabilities in addition to the rich set of exploitative, problem-driven capabilities. While, in the sense of exploitative BPM, the continuous improvement and management of existing processes will remain important, it focuses on reacting to and resolving existing process shortcomings. One topic of particular interest for this year s BPM track is explorative BPM, which operates under the paradigm of innovation and agility of processes, services, products and business models, applying techniques of creative, abductive thinking, design, and communication. This also includes the design of transformational innovation and design processes in addition to the traditional focus on transactional processes. The track seeks to find answers to the following questions: - How can BPM help identify value-creating scenarios for digital technologies, e.g., smart objects and networks, big data analytics, social media, and cloud solutions? - How can BPM be extended to stimulate the exploration of process innovation? - How can processes be designed as needed in organizations growing at high speed? - What is the role of business processes in social platforms, digital ecosystems, and increased robot-to-human systems? - How can innovation processes be managed and supported by process-aware innovation systems? - How can BPM support business model and ecosystem innovation? - How can BPM enable organizational agility? - How can we better understand diverse application areas for BPM that go beyond conventional business processes, including e.g., energy efficiency, private house-holds, or smart cities? - What are new application areas for BPM in economy and society, and what specific requirements do these application areas require? - What enterprise-wide capabilities are needed to enable ambidextrous BPM, i.e. the coexistence of exploitative and explorative BPM?
Track Co-Chairs 1 Name Surname (primary contact) URL Short Biography Maximilian Röglinger maximilian.roeglinger@fim-rc.de University of Bayreuth, FIM Research Center http://roeglinger.fim-rc.de Dr Maximilian Roeglinger is of Information Systems at the University of Bayreuth and Deputy Director of the Research Center FIM. Maximilian is also working with the Project Group Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE) of the Fraunhofer FIT. Maximilian s BPM-related research interests include process decision-making, process project portfolio management, process digitalization, and BPM as an enabling capability for innovation and agility. Maximilian is involved in several research projects funded by the German Research Foundation and the European Union. He is also engaged in numerous applied research projects with companies such as Deutsche Bahn, Deutsche Bank, Hilti, Infineon Technologies, Hilti, Radeberger, and Siemens. His research has been published in renowned journals (e.g., BISE, BPMJ, DSS, JAIS, JSIS) and presented at international conferences (e.g., AMCIS, ECIS, ER, ICIS). Maximilian received a PhD in Information Systems from the University of Augsburg, Germany, and holds a Diploma from the University of Bamberg, Germany. 2 Name Surname Michael Rosemann URL Short Biography m.rosemann@qut.edu.au Queensland University of Technology http://www.michaelrosemann.com Dr Michael Rosemann is the Head of the Information Systems School at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. This School includes the BPM Discipline, one of the largest BPM groups in the world and internationally known for its contributions in the areas of Business Process Management maturity, configurable and context-aware process modelling, workflow management and value-oriented BPM.
Michael is the Chief Investigator of a number of applied research projects funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) and various industry partners such as Accenture, Infosys, PricewaterhouseCoopers, SAP, Woolworths, and Rio Tinto. Michael was the General Chair of the 5th International Business Process Management Conference in September 2007 (BPM 2007), Industry Chair at BPM 2010, Chair of the BPM 2011 Doctorial Consortium and General Chair of the 21st Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2010). He will be program co-chair of ICIS 2018. As the co-author of 35 ECIS papers since 1997, participant of ECIS conferences since 1999 and co-chair of BPM tracks at ECIS 2008, ECIS 2011, ECIS 2013 to ECIS 2016, he is very familiar with the overall design of ECIS conferences. Furthermore, he was co-chair of the BPM track at ICIS 2013. He is the co-author of the winner of best papers at CAiSE 2000, PACIS 2004, ACIS 2005 (with Michael zur Muehlen) and BPM 2010. Michael is the author/editor of seven books, more than 230 refereed papers (incl. MISQ, JAIS, Information Systems, EJIS) and Editorial Board member of ten international journals. His publications have been translated into German, Russian, Portuguese and Mandarin. Dr Rosemann chairs the Australian BPM Community of Practice since more than ten years. He has conducted invited BPM keynote presentations for organisations such as Gartner, Cisco, Oracle, and SAP. 3 Name - Surname Jan vom Brocke URL Short Biography jan.vom.brocke@uni.li University of Liechtenstein http://www.uni.li/jan.vom.brocke Dr Jan vom Brocke is professor for Information Systems at the University of Liechtenstein. He is the Hilti Chair of Business Process Management, Director of the Institute of Information Systems, Co-Director of the International Master Program in IT and Business Process Management, and Director of the PhD Program in Business Economics. He is Vice-President of the AIS, President of the Liechtenstein Chapter of the AIS, and he serves on the University Executive Board as Vice-President Research and Innovation Jan has more than 15 years of experience in IS and BPM research and teaching, and has published more than 300 papers in, among others, MIS Quarterly (MISQ), Journal of Management Information
Systems (JMIS) and Information & Management (I&M). He is author and editor of 23 books, including the International Handbook on Business Process Management (together with M. Rosemann), Green Business Process Management (together with S. Seidel und J. Recker), and BPM Driving Innovation in a Digital World (together with T. Schmiedel). Jan is Conference-Co-Chair of ECIS 2015 in Muenster, Industry Track Co-Chair of the the 13th International BPM Conference, and DC-Co- Chair of DESRIST 2015. He was Program-Co-Chair of DESRIST 2012, General-Co-Chair of DESRIST 2013, and he served as Track-Co-Chair of BPM tracks numerous times both at ECIS and ICIS. He is Editor-in- Chief of Springer Briefs in BPM, and serves on the editorial board of a number of major journals in the field of IS and BPM, including the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) and the Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA).
Track Associate Editors 1 Name-Surname Daniel Beverungen daniel.beverungen@uni-paderborn.de University of Paderborn 2 Name-Surname Hans-Georg Fill hans-georg.fill@dke.univie.ac.at University of Vienna 3 Name-Surname Marta Indulska m.indulska@business.uq.edu.au University of Queensland, Australia 4 Name-Surname Susanne Leist susanne.leist@wiwi.uni-regensburg.de University of Regensburg 5 Name-Surname Peter Loos loos@iwi.uni-sb.de Saarland University 6 Name-Surname Fabrizio Maggi PhD f.m.maggi@ut.ee University of Tartu 7 Name-Surname Jan Mendling jan.mendling@wu.ac.at Vienna University of Economics and Business 8 Name-Surname Björn Niehaves bjoern.niehaves@uni-siegen.de University of Siegen 9 Name-Surname Christoph Rosenkranz rosenkranz@wiso.uni-koeln.de University of Cologne
10 Name-Surname Flavia Santoro flavia.santoro@uniriotec.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 11 Name-Surname Theresa Schmiedel Theresa.schmiedel@uni.li University of Liechtenstein 12 Name-Surname Peter Trkman peter.trkman@ef.uni-lj.si University of Ljubljana 13 Name-Surname Amy van Looy amy.vanlooy@ugent.be Ghent University 14 Name-Surname Michael zur Muehlen mzurmuehlen@stevens.edu Stevens Institute of Technology