[AISWorld] Final CFP:KM&EL Special Issue on "Learning, Teaching, and Disseminating Knowledge in Business Process Management"

[maggie wang]

*Final **Call for Papers***



*Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal (KM&EL)***



*Special Issue on*



  *Learning, Teaching, and Disseminating Knowledge in Business Process
Management*

*Guest Editors:*

* *

  *Jürgen Moormann, Ph.D.*

Professor

Head of ProcessLab

Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

Germany

Email: j.moormann at fs.de

* *

*Wasana Bandara, Ph.D.*

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Science and Technology

Queensland University of Technology (QUT)

Australia

Email: w.bandara at qut.edu.au

* *



In recent years, Business Process Management (BPM), a set of structured
methods and technologies for managing business processes, has emerged as a
powerful concept used by organisations across all industries. Designing,
measuring, improving, simulating, and controlling business processes has
become the central challenge to improve organisations´ performance and to
ensure success in a highly competitive world. As a result, the need for BPM
expertise is increasing with many BPM-related roles emerging, which often
requires new sets of skills. Thus, BPM education has been raised as a
perennial topic.



The topic of BPM education has many different facets. For example, the
challenges of converting the ‘function-oriented’ organisations and its
employees to process-oriented thinkers; effectively training employees to
select and use the specific methods and tools for managing business
processes within the different areas of designing, measuring, improving,
simulating, and controlling, and the overall challenges of teaching a
complex multi­disciplinary domain like BPM.  Furthermore, it is recognised
that BPM education is not only required for those in BPM specific roles in
an organisation, but an essential requirement for employees on all levels
including top executives, supervisory board members, workers associations,
and other stakeholders – to ensure acceptance and support for improvement
initiatives. The required skill sets for BPM capabilities are very diverse
and include business skills, technical skills, and a range of
soft-generic-skills such as facilitation, negotiation, relationship, and
change management, and to date there is a lack and a need for a clear body
of BPM knowledge. A further challenge is how to spread BPM-related
knowledge to all levels of an organization to ensure BPM thinking is
embedded in all daily actions. Subse­quently, there are many issues
awaiting to be examined, studied, and addressed.



This special issue of the KM&EL international journal is dedicated to
learning, instructing, and disseminating knowledge in the field of BPM. In
this call, we invite manuscripts that report empirical studies (both
quantitative and qualitative) of investigating issues and challenges
related to BPM education as well as the use or design of tools supporting
teaching efforts. In addition, this special issue welcomes manuscripts
discussing conceptual frameworks or theoretical constructs related to
learning, teaching, and disseminating BPM knowledge.

Recommended topics of interest include, but not limited to:



   - Strategies of learning and educating about BPM
   - What should be taught under the ‘BPM’ banner?
   - Curriculum design for BPM training in companies, government, and
   universities
   - Learners’ perceptions and their impact on their participation in BPM
   initiatives
   - Learners’ motivation in BPM initiatives
   - Strategies and tools to facilitate learning in the BPM context
   - Role of instructors, coaches, or facilitators in BPM
   - Role plays and other tools for teaching purposes in BPM projects
   - New approaches to delivering BPM education, including the use of
   collaborative tools, Web-based conferencing, and social networking
   - Best practices for incorporating advanced information technology into
   BPM education
   - Use of advanced technologies such as process simulation for (distance)
   education
   in BPM
   - Constructs and factors influencing the success of learning and
   educating BPM knowledge


   - Strategies and tools to facilitate peer interactions, collaboration,
   and other learning activities
   - Setting up a BPM center of excellence to disseminate BPM know-how
   - Building, managing, and sustaining knowledge on BPM



*Important Dates**  *

Submission due: 20th July, 2012

Notification of decision: 20th October, 2012

Finalization: 20th November 2012

Publication schedule: Dec 2012 (No. 4, 2012)



*Submission Instructions** *

Manuscripts should be sent by email to one of the Guest Editors (
j.moormann at fs.de or w.bandara at qut.edu.au).



Papers must not have been published, accepted for publication, or presently
be under consideration for publication elsewhere. A standard double-blind
review process will be used for selecting papers to be published in this
special issue. Authors should follow the instructions outlined in the KM&EL
Journal Website (see URL
http://www.kmel-journal.org/ojs/index.php/online-publication/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions
).
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