[AISWorld] BISE/WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK: Special Focus on Business Process Management (Due date: 2011-11-01)

[Maximilian Roeglinger]

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BISE/WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK – Call for Papers Issue 5/2012

BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT

Business processes are recognized as a key factor in the design of
corporations and their information systems. However, unlike other key
managerial variables such as products and services, customers and employees,
physical or digital assets (e.g. data, information), the conceptualization,
representation and management of business processes are still in their
infancy in many respects.
 
The demand for business process management (BPM) is grounded in the ongoing
pressure to improve operational efficiency, opportunities created by process
outsourcing/offshoring and the interest in making organizational behavior
more predictable and risk-aware. Industry interest is strong in process
standards such as widely accepted BPM maturity assessments, modeling
notations such as BPMN, or process reference content such as ITIL, HL7 and
SCOR. 

A large body of knowledge related to modeling, simulating and executing
business processes exists. However, BPM has scarcely been subjected to
‘classic’ IS/BISE questions that go beyond the design of BPM systems and
address the adoption, use, implications and success of BPM approaches and
technologies in organizations. 
This special focus is dedicated to the wider adoption of IS/BISE research in
the important domain of BPM. We explicitly encourage submissions that
describe research using a wide variety of approaches, covering quantitative
and qualitative, empirical and theoretical research methodologies such as
case studies, action research, surveys, experiments and Design Science.

RESEARCH COVERAGE

This special focus on BPM invites contributions related to the entire domain
of BPM covering BPM as an enterprise-wide capability, process (re-)design
projects and the development and use of process-aware information systems.
Among others, we welcome papers covering the following topics:

- BPM Maturity Management
- Governance of Processes, and of BPM initiatives
- Value, successes and failures of BPM initiatives
- Adoption of BPM in distinct regions/industries/functional areas
- Process outsourcing/offshoring
- Process Innovation
- Process-aware Information Systems
- Process Performance Measurement and Analytics
- BPM and Social Computing
- BPM and Decision Making
- Process Automation
- BPM and Service-oriented Architectures

SUBMISSION

Please submit papers for the sections BISE - Research Paper and BISE - State
of the Art by 2011-11-01 at the latest via the journal's online submission
system (http://www.editorialmanager.com/buis/). Please observe the
instructions regarding the format and size of contributions to Business &
Information Systems Engineering (BISE) / WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK. Papers
should not exceed 10 pages; this amounts to 50,000 characters including
spaces, minus 5,000 characters per page for illustrations. Detailed authors’
guidelines can be downloaded from http://www.bise-journal.org and
http://www.wirtschaftsinformatik.de. 

All papers will be reviewed anonymously (double-blind process) by several
referees with regard to relevance, originality, and research quality. In
addition to the editors of the journal, including those of this special
focus, distinguished national and international professionals with
scientific and practical backgrounds will be involved in the review process.

Complementary articles covering topics of this special focus are more than
welcome. 

Accepted papers will appear identically in English and German. The
English-language version will appear in Business & Information Systems
Engineering (BISE), the German-language version will appear in
WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK. Accepted papers will be translated in close
cooperation with the authors and a professional team of translators.

SCHEDULE

Submission deadline: 2011-11-01
Author notification: 2012-01-10
Completion of first revision: 2012-02-28 Author notification: 2012-04-17
Completion of a second revision (if needed, monolingual): 2012-05-22
Completion of a second revision (if needed, bilingual): 2012-06-19 Planned
publication date of Issue 5/2012: October 2012

EDITORS OF THE SPECIAL FOCUS
 
Michael Rosemann
Information Systems Discipline
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane Qld 4000
Australia
m.rosemann at qut.edu.au

Michael zur Muehlen
Howe School of Technology Management
Stevens Institute of Technology
Castle Point on Hudson
Hoboken, NJ 07030
USA
mzurmuehlen at stevens.edu

Jörg Becker
European Research Center for Information Systems University of Münster
Germany becker at ercis.uni-muenster.de

Maximilian Röglinger
FIM Research Center Finance & Information Management University of Augsburg
Germany maximilian.roeglinger at wiwi.uni-augsburg.de