[AISWorld] CfP: BPM Education Symposium 2018

[Oktay Turetken]

BPMEdu2018: BPM Education Symposium 2018
Sydney, Australia, September 10, 2018 (TBC)

Affiliated with Business Process Management (BPM) 2018

Symposium website: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~hpaik/bpmedu2018/
Abstract registration deadline: May 25, 2018
Submission deadline: June 1, 2018

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Call for BPM Education Symposium Papers
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As organizations continue to focus on improving and managing business
processes, the ability to acquire and/or cultivate the appropriate skilled
workforce is one of the key challenges. While business process management
(BPM) was once defined in terms of tools and technologies, it is nowadays
emerging as a discipline encompassing a broad spectrum of knowledge,
skills, and abilities. BPM endeavours of modern organizations have gone
beyond the automation of processes to encompass strategic, technical, and
people requirements and issues that must be planned, managed, and
evaluated. Many organizations have assigned the process transformation
leadership to existing business analysts who find they require additional
training and education. In addition research is discovering that successful
and sustainable BPM deployment involves the ability to create value through
effectively managing, orchestrating, communicating and transforming
business processes across the organization. These efforts require a
plethora of skills and abilities that many organizations find lacking in
their current employees and difficult to find in prospective employees.
This deficiency has given rise to an interest in and a need for a BPM
training curriculum that adequately prepares the business process
professional. Consequently, there has been a rise in offerings from both
professional training organizations and universities.

Many education programs in the discipline embrace topics from broader areas
such as Service Oriented Design and Service Architectures, Workflow
Systems, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Application Integrations. As BPM
continues to evolve as a discipline, there is a need to study the current
state of BPM education and how the outcomes addresses the BPM capabilities
needed in practice. A deeper appreciation on how process centric concepts
are understood and consumed by diverse learner groups is needed to design
well-grounded and applicable BPM curricula. The sharing and dissemination
of innovative BPM education/ training approaches (and material) that has
proven to work would help the BPM education agenda.

A research dialog between the academy and practice should lead to informed
recommendations for appropriate learning material, training experiences,
curriculum development and course deployments for an expanding BPM
discipline. It would also be timely for such a dialog to examine how the
rapidly emerging technology areas (e.g., big data analytics, IoT
applications, micro services and API management) should inform the future
of BPM education. A discussion on challenges and opportunities to utilise
the online teaching environments and platforms (e.g., MOOC offerings) on
BPM education would be a valuable contribution as well.

This track invites papers that examine effective education and training
methods for developing the BPM professional. The intent is to share and
develop relevant knowledge and to promote fresh ideas for the integration
of the broad spectrum of BPM dimensions into training and education courses
and/or programs.

General questions and topics for the track include:
* What is the current state of BPM education in universities and/or
professional education organizations?
* What courses and content of those courses are effective at developing BPM
professionals?
* What methods of education/training deployment help BPM professionals
understand the holistic nature of end-to-end process-centric organizations?
* Is there a need for professional certification programs in BPM?
* What types of skills and abilities are needed for successful and
sustainable BPM deployments? How can these be developed and cultivated?
* Are there new topics that are becoming relevant to BPM education?
* Best practice teaching methods or approaches on BPM (and related
disciplines) education?

We also would like to invite submissions that share innovative teaching
methods, BPM teaching cases, and new curriculum developments in the related
disciplines.
Simulating, well-structured teaching cases based on real-life or
hypothetical cases that can assist in teaching important concepts in BPM
are welcome.

Important Dates:

Deadline for abstract submissions: 25 May 2018
Deadline for shop paper submissions: 01 June 2018
Notification of acceptance: 26 June 2017
Camera-ready version workshop papers: 13 July 2018
Symposium Day: 10 September 2018

For more information, please refer to the symposium Web site:
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~hpaik/bpmedu2018/