Conference Tracks - Business Process Management

Track Description
Business process management (BPM) has become one of the most widely discussed approaches for information professionals. The potential of BPM particularly lies in the integration of advanced information technology with organizational and managerial methods to foster and leverage business innovation, operational excellence and intra- and inter-organizational collaboration.

The aim of the BPM track is to provide a forum for thought leaders in this area to assist in further shaping the BPM identify as a boundary-spanning, relevant and identity-defining discipline of IS research. The BPM track intends to capture the contemporary state of the art in BPM research, bringing together global BPM thought leaders from both academia and practice. A particular aim of the track is to push the discussion in contemporary BPM research beyond information technology and methods, to also embrace aspects of strategic alignment, governance, people and culture.

Relevant Topics

• Strategic alignment of BPM (e.g., value-based process management)
• BPM Governance (e.g., BPM centre of competence)
• Methods for BPM (e.g., Six Sigma, procedure models, methodologies, process modelling)
• Process-aware Information Systems (e.g., workflow management and eBusiness standards)
• Engaging and Educating Process Practitioners(e.g., educational programs, curriculum design)
• Cultural Impacts of/on BPM (e.g., in global roll-out projects)
• BPM case studies
• Adoption and Diffusion of BPM and Process standards
• Open-source Systems for BPM
• BPM and Service-Orientation
• Business Process Intelligence
• Business Process Forensics and Performance Management
• New enabling technologies for BPM (Cloud computing, Mobile technologies)
• End user and community enablement of BPM

Confirmed journal special issues and/or journal fast-track
Authors of selected high quality papers from the track will be invited to submit an extended version of the paper for a fast track review process of the Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA).

Confirmed Associate Editors

• Wil van der Aalst (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
• Wasana Bandara (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
• Jörg Becker (University of Münster, Germany)
• Deborah Bunker (University of Sydney, Australia)
• Marlon Dumas (University of Tartu, Estonia)
• Georg Grossman (The University of South Australia, Australia)
• Paul Harmon (BPTrends Associates, USA)
• Marta Indulska (The University of Queensland, Australia)
• Dimitris Karagiannis (University of Vienna, Austria)
• Akhil Kumar (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
• John Krogstie (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
• Peter Loos (University of Saarland, Germany)
• Olivera Marjanovic (University of Sydney, Australia)
• Bela Mutschler (University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten, Germany)
• Michael Rosemann (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
• Selma Limam Manzar (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar)
• Michael zur Mühlen (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
• Kai Riemer (University of Sydney, Australia)
• Hajo Reijers (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
• Shazia Sadiq (The University of Queensland, Australia)
• Stefan Seidel (University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein)
• Pnina Soffer (University of Haifa, Israel)
• Ingo Weber (University of New South Wales, Australia)
• Roel Wieringa (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
• Robert Winter (University of St.Gallen, Switzerland)

Track Chairs
Jan vom Brocke, University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein
Alexander Dreiling, SAP Research, Australia
Jan Mendling, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany
Jan Recker, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Contact details
j.recker@qut.edu.au