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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear colleagues, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please feel free to forward to your interested students and colleagues.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Many thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jan<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoTitle align=left style='text-align:left'>PhD scholarship available at QUT’s Information Systems School<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>Applications are invited from suitable qualified graduates for a PhD scholarship at the School of Information Systems at Queensland University of Technology as part of the ARC project “<b>Designing Process Models for Decision-Making</b>”. The term of the scholarship is three years. The scholarships provide financial support towards study and living costs. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Project Background</span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>When seeking to re-design business processes – a perennial top priority of chief information executives – organisations use graphical documentations of their business processes, so called process models. These models act as blueprints of organizational processes, and are a key tool for making re-design decisions, i.e., decisions about where, how and why changes to the processes should be enacted to warrant increased revenues, business growth, improved operational efficiency, cost reductions or increased compliance.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>A process model that documents a business process in an incomplete, incorrect, cumbersome to decipher, or otherwise deficient manner will not convey the information about the business domain to the decision maker such that a good decision can be facilitated. Any re-design of the processes, in consequence, will then fail to deliver the expected benefits. When creating process models, therefore, business analysts require principles that guide them in conceiving graphical representations of business processes that are useful, intuitive and accurate to the decision-makers (process owners, process managers, business analysts, systems designers and the like) working with these models.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This project aims to develop a theory, and theory-driven guidelines, for developing understandable process models. Specifically, it will deliver:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>A fundamental theory about factors and consequences of process modelling for decision-making tasks; and<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>on the basis of the new and validated theory, practical guidelines based on rigorous empirical insights to guide the creation of useful, intuitive and accurate process models for decision-making.<o:p></o:p></p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br clear=all style='page-break-before:always'></span><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Project Governance<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal>The research project is led by Associate Professor Jan Recker, PhD. Jan is Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow and Associate Professor for Information Systems at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, where he is co-leader of the Business Process Management research group. His main areas of research include business process design in organizational practice, organizational innovation and IT-enabled business transformations. His research is published in the <i>MIS Quarterly</i>, the <i>Journal of the Association for Information Systems</i>, the <i>European Journal of Information Systems</i>, <i>Information & Management</i>, the <i>Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems</i>, <i>Information Systems</i>, and other key journals.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jan is currently the highest ranked researcher in Information Systems in Europe and Australia, based on publications in the top six journals over the last three years. He is an Associate Editor for the Communications of the AIS, a Senior Editor for the Journal of IT Theory and Application, a member of the editorial board of several international journals and serves on the program committee of various conferences.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>More information is available from <a href="http://www.janrecker.com/">www.janrecker.com/</a>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The Research Environment<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>QUT’s Information Systems School is currently the highest ranked IS research department in Australia based on research quality. The school is also among the highest ranked IS departments in Australia or Europe in terms of publications in the top IS journals worldwide.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>QUT’s Information Systems School has a global reputation for its work on BPM maturity management, process improvement, process modelling, and workflow technology. The school has had substantial impact on the global body of BPM knowledge and its uptake in industry and academia. Research from the BPM group has appeared in premier outlets journals such as the <i>MIS Quarterly</i>, the <i>Journal of the AIS</i>, the <i>European Journal of IS</i>, <i>Decision Support Systems</i>, <i>Information Systems</i>, <i>ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology</i>, and others.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>To find out more, please visit <a href="http://www.qut.edu.au/science-engineering/about/about-the-faculty/school-of-information-systems">http://www.qut.edu.au/science-engineering/about/about-the-faculty/school-of-information-systems</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br clear=all style='page-break-before:always'></span><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Application Criteria<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN>The successful applicant<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN>has a Master's degree in information systems, business administration, or a comparable field. He or she completed the Master’s degree with a GPA of 6 or higher (or equivalent).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>has the ambition and capabilities to complete a high-quality PhD project within 3 years.</span><span lang=EN><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>has a strong research mindset, and evidence of skills in theoretical and empirical research.</span><span lang=EN><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>possesses strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.</span><span lang=EN><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>speaks and writes fluently in English.</span><span lang=EN><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>likes to work in an international setting.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Application Procedure<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>Applicants are required to submit a letter of application for the scholarship to Associate Professor Jan Recker (<a href="mailto:j.recker@qut.edu.au">j.recker@qut.edu.au</a>) by <b>31 March 2012</b>, briefly describing qualifications, relevant skills and areas of research interest. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>Applicants will be screened and, if suitable, invited for further assessment and interviews.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>The following supporting documents are required: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>CV including a comprehensive list and details of all publications if any.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Certified copies of academic transcripts.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Copies of most important research papers or theses<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>A letter stating how the above criteria are met by the applicant<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>2 letters of reference from academics who have taught/supervised the applicant at university.<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>