[AISWorld] Final CFP: 7th International Workshop on Business Process Design (BPD2011) at BPM2011, France

[Marta Indulska]

BPD2011 - 7th International Workshop on Business Process Design
http://www.bpd-workshops.com/

**SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 30 MAY 2011**

In conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Business Process
Management (http://bpm2011.isima.fr)
Aug 28th-Sep 2nd, 2011, 
Clermont-Ferrand, France


Workshop Background and Goals:
Business Process Management (BPM) has been a widely researched domain in the past two decades, with topics such as process modeling, process analysis, and process monitoring, among others, receiving significant academic attention. While these research topics are now in very advanced stages, one critical aspect of BPM has so far attracted limited academic contributions: process design. Process design is the ‘white space’ between the as-is and the to-be process models. Designing a process that improves organizational performance is a challenging task that requires a plethora of inputs (for example, organizational strategies, goals, constraints, and IT capabilities, to name a few). It is this act of process improvement that is the most value-adding step in the process lifecycle, however, existing methodologies remain vague about how to actually derive superior process design. The practice of business process design tends to rely on the creativity and previous experience of business professionals to come up with new, improved processes. Because of the variability in creativity levels, experience and tacit knowledge, the outcomes of such efforts are inconsistent and can thus undermine the potential benefits of BPM. 

The existing more scientific approaches have focused often on only small, well-understood business domains and are either centered around atomic improvement proposals or general reference models. Overall, much more attention is devoted to process modeling techniques and standards than actual value-adding process design. The aim of this workshop is to continue the ongoing and successful discussions of the last six BPD workshops to further nurture a body of knowledge on the disciplined, well-understood and appropriately evaluated design of business processes. Papers that introduce innovative tools for process design, as well as papers that address soft issues (human aspects) and quantitative aspects (e.g. financial evaluation of proposed process improvements), will be particularly welcome. We aim to bring together researchers and practitioners who have an interest in advancing the state of the art in process design (in contrast to process modeling or execution). We seek contributions by authors who wish to share their innovative ideas and insightful observations on the subject. Two main categories of submissions will be considered: regular papers and industry papers. 

Topics:
The workshop focuses exclusively on aspects related to process design/improvement within the process lifecycle. This specialization excludes the well-researched process modeling and process execution aspects. Within this specialized scope, topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Process improvement techniques and tools
- Process design objectives
- Process inefficiency diagnosis
- Process improvement patterns
- Process design measures and evaluation
- Process design in the cloud
- Process reference models
- Process innovation
- Constraints in process design (e.g. legislative requirements, compliance)
- Process design governance
- Process design for emerging challenges (e.g. greening of processes)
- Process design in collaborative environments
- Human aspects (involvement, participation, acceptance) in process design
- Linking process design to organizational strategy and goals
- Success factors in process design
- Case studies and experiments

Paper Submission:
Papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair submission system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpd11. For further submission details please refer to: http://www.bpd-workshops.com/

Important dates:
Paper submission deadline: 30 May 2011
Notification of acceptance: 18 July 2011
Camera ready: 1 August 2011 (for inclusion in pre-proceedings)
Workshop day: 29 August 2011
Camera ready for LNBIP proceedings: 19 September 2011
LNBIP proceedings delivery to authors: December 2011

Co-Chairs:
Marta Indulska 
The University of Queensland

Michael zur Muehlen 
Stevens Institute of Technology


Michael Rosemann 
Queensland University of Technology