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Track "Business Process Management"<BR>
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at the<BR>
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19th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2011) <BR>
Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-11, 2011<BR>
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Business Process Management (BPM) can be defined as the set of concepts, methods and tools<BR>
dedicated to the definition, implementation, improvement and structuring of processes in organizations.<BR>
It emerged as a combination of mature organizational concepts (BPR, Six Sigma, TQM) and process-<BR>
supporting technologies such as workflow management, BPM systems and service-enabled solutions.<BR>
The use of business process automation promises significant efficiency gains for organizations through<BR>
the coordination of activities, process participants and the integration of applications. The high demand<BR>
for BPM is grounded in the ongoing pressure to improve operational efficiencies, opportunities related<BR>
to process outsourcing/off-shoring and the interest in process standards such as ITIL and SCOR. Not<BR>
surprisingly, global analysts such as the Gartner Group have identified Business Process Management<BR>
as the number one priority of CIOs for the last seven years.<BR>
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While a large body of knowledge related to modeling, simulating and executing business processes exists,<BR>
BPM has hardly been subjected to ‘classic’ Information Systems questions. Such questions go beyond the<BR>
design of BPM systems and surround the adoption, use, and implications of BPM approaches and technologies<BR>
in organization. The proposed BPM track will encourage the wider adoption of Information Systems research<BR>
in the increasingly popular and important domain of BPM. In alignment with the overall topic of the conference,<BR>
the proposed track will focus topics such as<BR>
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- Success factors and measures of BPM<BR>
- BPM adoption models<BR>
- BPM governance<BR>
- Business process innovation<BR>
- Business process outsourcing<BR>
- Process-aware Information Systems<BR>
- Inter-organizational BPM<BR>
- Process performance measurement<BR>
- BPM in different industries<BR>
- Process reference models<BR>
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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.<BR>
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Types of Contributions<BR>
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The proposed track on Business Process Management intends to attract the full spectrum of submissions types including:<BR>
· Full research papers that represent a mature IS-view on Business Process Management<BR>
· Research-in-progress papers that explore emerging areas of BPM-related research <BR>
· Teaching cases that together with teaching notes will be beneficial for the large growing number of IS courses that cover BPM topics.<BR>
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Important dates<BR>
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December 1, 2010 Submission deadline<BR>
January 31, 2011 Reviews due<BR>
March 1, 2011 Notification of acceptance<BR>
April 5, 2011 Final paper due<BR>
June 9-11, 2011 ECIS 2011 conference<BR>
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Further information at <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://www.ecis2011.fi">http://www.ecis2011.fi</a><BR>
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Track Chairs<BR>
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Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="m.rosemann@qut.edu.au">m.rosemann@qut.edu.au</a><BR>
</U></FONT>Michael zur Muehlen, Stevens Institute of Technology, </SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><FONT SIZE="1"><FONT FACE="Lucida Grande"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:7.5pt'><U><a href="Michael.zurMuehlen@stevens.edu">Michael.zurMuehlen@stevens.edu</a><BR>
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Prof. Michael Rosemann, PhD, MBA, FACS<BR>
Head of Information Systems Discipline<BR>
Faculty of Science and Technology<BR>
Queensland University of Technology<BR>
Level 5, 126 Margaret Street<BR>
Brisbane Qld 4000 Australia<BR>
P +61 (0)7 3138 9473 <BR>
M +61 (0)408 735363 <BR>
E <a href="m.rosemann@qut.edu.au">m.rosemann@qut.edu.au</a><BR>
W: www.bpm.fit.qut.edu.au<BR>
T: <a href="https://twitter.com/QUTInfoSystems">https://twitter.com/QUTInfoSystems</a><BR>
T: <a href="https://twitter.com/QUTBPMGroup">https://twitter.com/QUTBPMGroup</a><BR>
H: <a href="http://sky.scitech.qut.edu.au/~rosemann/">http://sky.scitech.qut.edu.au/~rosemann/</a><BR>
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