CFP: ACIS 2010 Track

Business Process Management (BPM)

Theme

Business process management (BPM) has become one of the most widely discussed approaches for information professionals. The potential of BPM particularly lies in the integration of advanced information technology with organizational and managerial methods to foster and leverage business innovation, operational excellence and intra- and inter-organizational collaboration.

Business Process Management as an Information Systems discipline is characterized by a myriad of approaches towards the analysis, modelling, implementation, execution and management of information systems with a process focus, ranging from those supported by groupware and project management products to those supported by workflow management systems and, more recently, business process management systems. However, Business Process Management also embraces further, widely undefined themes pertaining to the engineering and management of systems and organizations, particularly with respect to the areas of organizational culture, process-aware information systems, strategic alignment, and governance structures.

The aim of the BPM track is to provide a forum for thought leaders in this area to assist in further shaping the BPM identify as a boundary-spanning, relevant and identity-defining discipline of IS research. The BPM track intends to capture the contemporary state of the art in BPM research, bringing together global BPM thought leaders from both academia and practice. A particular aim of the track is to push the discussion in contemporary BPM research beyond information technology and methods, to also embrace aspects of strategic alignment, governance, people and culture.

We invite rigorous and relevant contributions from a wide variety of research methods, addressing topics such as the below. Submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the international Editorial Board.

Topics

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

-                      Strategic alignment of BPM (e.g., value-based process management)

-                      BPM Governance (e.g., BPM centre of competence)

-                      Methods for BPM (e.g., Six Sigma, procedure models, methodologies, process modelling)

-                      Process-aware Information Systems (e.g., workflow management and eBusiness standards)

-                      Engaging and Educating Process Practitioners(e.g., educational programs, curriculum design)

-                      Cultural Impacts of/on BPM (e.g., in global roll-out projects)

-                      BPM case studies

-                      Adoption and Diffusion of BPM and Process standards

-                      Open-source Systems for BPM

-                      BPM and Service-Orientation

-                      Business Process Intelligence

-                      Business Process Forensics and Performance Management

-                      New enabling technologies for BPM (Cloud computing, Mobile technologies)

-                      End user and community enablement of BPM

Publication Outlets

Papers will be published within the Proceedings of ACIS 2010. Selected track best papers will be invited for tast-tracking to a special issue in the AIS journal Journal of Information Technology Theory & Applications (JITTA).

Track Chairs

Dr Jan vom Brocke, The University of Liechtenstein
Dr Alexander Dreiling, SAP Research
Dr Jan Mendling, Humboldt-University Berlin
Dr Jan Recker, Queensland University of Technology

Associate Editors

* Wil van der Aalst (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
* Wasana Bandara (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)

* Jörg Becker (University of Münster, Germany)
* Deborah Bunker (University of Sydney, Australia)

* Marlon Dumas (University of Tartu, Estonia)

* Georg Grossman (The University of South Australia, Australia)
* Paul Harmon (BPTrends Associates, USA)

* Marta Indulska (The University of Queensland, Australia)

* Dimitris Karagiannis (University of Vienna, Austria)
* Akhil Kumar(Pennsylvania State University, USA)

* John Krogstie (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

* Peter Loos (University of Saarland, Germany)
* Olivera Marjanovic (University of Sydney, Australia)

* Bela Mutschler (University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten, Germany)

* Michael Rosemann (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)

* Selma Limam Manzar (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar)

* Michael zur Mühlen (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)

* Kai Riemer (University of Sydney, Australia)

* Hajo Reijers (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)

* Shazia Sadiq (The University of Queensland, Australia)

* Stefan Seidel (University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein)

* Pnina Soffer (University of Haifa, Israel)

* Ingo Weber (University of New South Wales, Australia)

* Roel Wieringa (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

* Robert Winter (University of St.Gallen, Switzerland)