[AISWorld] ECIS 2011 Track on Business Process Management

[Michael Rosemann]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Track "Business Process Management"

http://www.ecis2011.fi/

at the

19th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2011)
Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-11, 2011
http://www.ecis2011.fi

Business Process Management (BPM) can be defined as the set of concepts, methods and tools
dedicated to the definition, implementation, improvement and structuring of processes in organizations.
It emerged as a combination of mature organizational concepts (BPR, Six Sigma, TQM) and process-
supporting technologies such as workflow management, BPM systems and service-enabled solutions.
The use of business process automation promises significant efficiency gains for organizations through
the coordination of activities, process participants and the integration of applications. The high demand
for BPM is grounded in the ongoing pressure to improve operational efficiencies, opportunities related
to process outsourcing/off-shoring and the interest in process standards such as ITIL and SCOR. Not
surprisingly, global analysts such as the Gartner Group have identified Business Process Management
as the number one priority of CIOs for the last seven years.

While a large body of knowledge related to modeling, simulating and executing business processes exists,
BPM has hardly been subjected to 'classic' Information Systems questions. Such questions go beyond the
design of BPM systems and surround the adoption, use, and implications of BPM approaches and technologies
in organization.  The proposed BPM track will encourage the wider adoption of Information Systems research
in the increasingly popular and important domain of BPM. In alignment with the overall topic of the conference,
the proposed track will focus topics such as

- Success factors and measures of BPM
- BPM adoption models
- BPM governance
- Business process innovation
- Business process outsourcing
- Process-aware Information Systems
- Inter-organizational BPM
- Process performance measurement
- BPM in different industries
- Process reference models

The proposed track will explicitly encourage research using a wide variety of papers covering quantitative and qualitative, empirical and theoretical research methodologies such as case studies, action research, surveys, experiments and Design Science.

Types of Contributions

The proposed track on Business Process Management intends to attract the full spectrum of submissions types including:
·     Full research papers that represent a mature IS-view on Business Process Management
·     Research-in-progress papers that explore emerging areas of BPM-related research
·     Teaching cases that together with teaching notes will be beneficial for the large growing number of IS courses that cover BPM topics.

Important dates

December 1, 2010                Submission deadline
January 31, 2011                Reviews due
March 1, 2011           Notification of acceptance
April 5, 2011           Final paper due
June 9-11, 2011         ECIS 2011 conference

Further information at http://www.ecis2011.fi

Track Chairs

Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, m.rosemann at qut.edu.au
Michael zur Muehlen, Stevens Institute of Technology, Michael.zurMuehlen at stevens.edu
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Prof. Michael Rosemann, PhD, MBA, FACS
Head of Information Systems Discipline
Faculty of Science and Technology
Queensland University of Technology
Level 5, 126 Margaret Street
Brisbane Qld 4000 Australia
P +61 (0)7 3138 9473
M +61 (0)408 735363
E m.rosemann at qut.edu.au
W: www.bpm.fit.qut.edu.au
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T: https://twitter.com/QUTBPMGroup
H: http://sky.scitech.qut.edu.au/~rosemann/
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