BPD2012 - 8th International Workshop on Business Process Design
http://www.bpd-workshops.com/

In conjunction with:
10th International Conference on Business Process Management (http://bpm2012.ut.ee/)
3-6 September, 2012 
Tallinn, Estonia

Paper submission deadline: 1st June 2012

Business Process Design is at the core of Business Process Management. As the most value-adding stage of the process lifecycle, it is dedicated to the development of improved and compliant business processes. Designing a process that improves corporate performance is a challenging task that requires multi-disciplinary expertise and a plethora of inputs (for example, organizational strategies, goals, constraints, and IT capabilities, to name a few). However, unlike other well-defined and theory-grounded stages of the process lifecycle (e.g., process modeling), Process Design is still only poorly understood and lacks a widely accepted and theoretical sound foundation. Existing scientific approaches have focused often on only small, well-understood business domains and are either centered around atomic improvement proposals or general reference models. Overall, much more attention is devoted to process modeling techniques and standards than actual value-adding Process Design. 

BPD2012 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners who have an interest in advancing the state of the art in Process Design. We seek contributions by authors who wish to share their innovative ideas and insightful observations on the subject. Two main categories of submissions will be considered: regular papers and industry papers.

The workshop focuses exclusively on aspects related to process improvement within the process lifecycle. This specialization excludes the well-researched process modeling and process execution. Within this specialized scope, topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Process improvement methods, tools and techniques
* Process improvement objectives
* Process improvement patterns
* Process improvement measures and evaluation
* Process improvement in the cloud
* Process reference models
* Process innovation
* Constraints in process improvement (e.g. legislative requirements, compliance)
* Process design governance
* Process improvement for emerging challenges (e.g. greening of processes)
* Collaborative process improvement
* Human aspects (involvement, participation, acceptance) in process improvement
* Linking process improvement to organizational strategy and goals
* Success factors in process improvement
* Case studies and experiments

Paper Submission:
Only papers in English will be accepted, and the length of the paper must not exceed 12 pages. Papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair submission system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpd2012. For formatting instructions and further details please refer to the BPD2012 website:http://www.bpd-workshops.com/submission-instructions/

Co-Chairs:
Marta Indulska 
The University of Queensland, Australia

Dr Michael zur Muehlen
Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

Michael Rosemann
Queensland University of Technology, Australia