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Jan,
I hope your time in Vancouver was enjoyable and productive.
I look forward to any further changes in our paper and then
submission.
Meanwhile, at the same time that I received your email I also saw
your posting on AISWorld about the three positions in the BPM group.
Since you are one of very few BPM experts who also understands the
value of thinking about systems as work systems, not just highly
structured business processes where the actual work steps are black
box subroutines ( I am surely unaware of the latest BPM advances),
you are in a unique position to visualize both disconnects and
synergies between these two ways of looking at systemic action in
organizations.
While it might be easiest to simply keep those two areas separate in
your future work, you might consider a number of possible ways of
exploring and clarifying both the disconnects and the synergies.
Here are a few such ideas:
1) Write an initial paper on the disconnects and potential
synergies. Do this by identifying basic assumptions about reality,
basic top level concepts, the second layer of concepts related to
the top level concept, important omissions, etc. The sources could
be the BPM literature on the one hand in comparison with some of the
stuff in the WS theory paper I sent you.
2) Apply a highly rigorous BPM kind of mindset to thinking about
WSM and how and why it meets or fails to meet criteria for well
formed BPM models even with its different terminology. Perhaps this
is essentially the same as using evaluation criteria for conceptual
modeling concepts (e.g., under what circumstances are concepts
overloaded, ambiguous, etc.)
3) Insert WSM awareness into the research that will be done by the
three new BPM people at QUT. For example, when they do case
studies, have them use WSM to help in clarifying what BPM truly
accomplishes in those case study situations and what types of issues
it ignores or downplays. One possibility is to have them write two
versions of the same case study, one with a BPM mindset and one with
a WSM mindset, and then to compare them. I don't know whether that
would be possible, but if it would be possible it would probably be
a unique contribution.
Anyway, I would certainly be interested in discussing any of that or
any related possibilities if you would be interested. (The worst
case for me is that I would end up less ignorant about BPM.)
See you at ICIS? ... or have you had enough of North America for a
while?
Best regards,
Steve
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Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 15:36:59 +1000
From: Jan Recker <j.recker@qut.edu.au>
To: "'aisworld@lists.aisnet.org'"
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Subject: [AISWorld] Up to 3 new positions available at the BPM
Research Group, QUT
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Up to 3 new positions (1 Research Fellow and up to 2 PhD
students) are available at the BPM Research Group within the
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. The
positions are under a new research project on "Facilitating
Business Process Standardization and Reuse".
Project background
One of the most pressing management challenges of today's
organisations lies in the reuse and standardisation of best
practices across different sectors, products or units. This
project aims to design and develop an innovative process model
repository and appropriate governance structures to efficiently
and effectively support the standardisation and reuse of best
practices. The project is co-founded by Suncorp, one of
Australia's top 25 listed companies and Queensland's largest
listed corporation. Suncorp provides a range of banking and
insurance products directly to customers through an extensive
branch and agency network, call centre operations, on-line
facilities, and through intermediaries and corporate partners.
The collaboration with Suncorp will offer the successful
applicants an opportunity to work with real-life business
process models, and the possibility to conduct case studies to
validate the outcomes of their research.
Research Fellow
The role of this research fellow is to work on algorithms and
techniques to facilitate standardization of proven practices in
large collections of business process models. Moreover, the
fellow is expected to take a key role in the management of the
research project. S(he) will assist in the supervision of
research students where required, and participate in the
development of the project by preparing and collating
publications, reports and articles, as appropriate. Furthermore,
s(he) will develop, and oversee the development of, prototypical
software.
Position Title:
Research Fellow
Closes: 14
February 2011
Organisational Area: Information
Systems, Faculty of Science and Technology
Campus: 126
Margaret Street, Brisbane
Salary Range/Classification: $72 617 to $86
241 pa Research Fellow (Level B)
Superannuation: 17%
employer contribution
Status:
Fixed-term for up to 2 years
Start date: mid
2011
Position Contact and Title: Dr Marcello La
Rosa
(07) 3138 9482 or m.larosa@qut.edu.au<mailto:m.larosa@qut.edu.au>
Open to:
Australian and International Applicants.
PhD 1
The role of this PhD student is to work on algorithms to reuse
best practices within large process model collections. Within
this work, the PhD student will be required to conduct
requirements analysis, formal algorithm specification,
implementation and testing.
Position Title: PhD
in Computer Science
Closes: 14
February 2011
Organisational Area: Information
Systems, Faculty of Science and Technology
Campus: 126
Margaret Street, Brisbane
Scholarship:
$27,222 pa (tax exempt) + tuition fee waiver
Status:
Fixed-term 3 years
Start date:
March 2011
Position Contact and Title: Dr Marcello La
Rosa
(07) 3138 9482 or m.larosa@qut.edu.au<mailto:m.larosa@qut.edu.au>
Open to:
Australian and International Applicants.
PhD 2
The role of this PhD student is to examine theoretically and
empirically the use, appropriation, governance and impact of the
process model repository to be built within this project, in
contexts of process standardization and reuse. To that end, the
PhD student will be required to examine managerial aspects of
process modelling, the use of process modelling in actual
organisational task settings, as well as important
organisational decision-making structures.
Position Title: PhD
in Information Systems
Closes: 14
February 2011
Organisational Area: Information
Systems, Faculty of Science and Technology
Campus: 126
Margaret Street, Brisbane
Scholarship:
$27,222 pa (tax exempt) + tuition fee waiver
Status:
Fixed-term 3 years
Start date:
March 2011
Position Contact and Title: A/Prof. Jan
Recker
(07) 3138 9479 or j.recker@qut.edu.au<mailto:j.recker@qut.edu.au>
Open to:
Australian and International Applicants.
More information on these positions can be found at http://www.bpm.fit.qut.edu.au/about/opportunities/index.jsp#positions.
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