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 Stevens hosts BPM 2010 ConferenceThe Center for Business Process Innovation is hosting the 8th International Conference on Business Process Management, held from September 13 through 16, 2010 at the Stevens Campus in Hoboken, NJ. This is the first time this prestigious conference is held in North America, and only the second time it will be held outside of Europe. BPM 2010 is the eighth conference in a series that provides the most distinguished specialized forum for researchers and practitioners in business process management (BPM). The conference has a record of attracting innovative research of highest quality related to all aspects of business process management including theory, frameworks, methods, techniques, architectures, and empirical findings. In addition to the main research track, BPM 2010 will include an industrial and an educational papers track. The conference encourages practitioners to submit experience and application papers reporting on innovative implementations and applications of Business Process Management with a particular focus on their impact on information technology use and business practice. Process InnovationThe Center for Business Process Innovation conducts research on the interplay between business processes and the organization. Research areas include:
Right and Wrong Questions for Process Discovery Organizations have an unprecedented number of opportunities available to change and improve their processes. Advances in organizational research, mature supporting information systems, and complementary service offerings allow them to create compliant processes, improve their performance, simulate, automate, and monitor them. But one key challenge remains: You need to find your processes first.
During the BPM Day seminar on June 27th, part of the discussion focused on strategies for the identification of processes. Keith Swenson picked this up in a blog post here. We propose that process modelers seek out a rainy day scenario first, in order to discover as many process variants as possible early during their process modeling efforts. You can read our advice here:
zur Muehlen, M.; Recker, J.: Asking the Wrong Questions: Process Discovery on a Rainy Day. BPM.com, July 3rd, 2007. Available online at http://www.bpm.com/asking-the-wrong-questions-process-discovery-on-a-rainy-day.html
Undergraduate Course in Business Process Management: BT 416 BT 416: Business Process Management is a course in the Business & Technology undergraduate program at Stevens. The course addresses the methods and techniques required to analyze, design, implement, automate, and evaluate business processes. Structured along the phases of the Business Process Management (BPM) life cycle, students learn to analyze organizational performance from a process perspective, redesign processes using value-focused techniques, design workflows and implement them in BPM systems, simulate new process designs, and create process analytics applications using dashboards. The course leads students from process discovery through conceptual and technical process design through the implementation and management of workflows to the structure of process-aware information systems. Upon completion of this course students will be able to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of an organization from a process perspective, conduct process improvement projects, and determine the role of technology in supporting corporate processes. The Business Process Management course expands and enhances the current offerings of the Business & Technology program by focusing on a change management area that is predominantly populated by Information Systems professionals. It builds on the analysis techniques that are mentioned in BT 201 - Diagnosing and Measuring Customer Satisfaction. The course leverages the existing research program around BPM in the Howe School and uses partnerships with academics and industry to incorporate new research findings and technology into the curriculum. Students are exposed to, and work with, state-of-the-art BPM software offerings from vendors such as IBM, TIBCO, SunGard, BizAgi, and Signavio. CEBPI in the News: Michael zur Muehlen on IDS Scheer's Innovation & Education Network |
BPM Graduate Program CEBPI and the Howe School of Technology Management are now offering Graduate Certificates, MS in Information Systems, and Executive Seminars in Business Process Management and Service Innovation. Click on the Brochure to find out more. The BPM Challenge
Business projects all circle around the notion of change and improvement. Improving their business processes is on top of the agenda for all chief and senior executives. Increasing effectiveness and efficiency of current business structures depends on a solid understanding of current and future business processes and their contribution to current and future business needs.
Business Process Management (BPM) is the set of concepts, methods and tools surrounding the definition, implementation, execution and improvement of organizational processes. The demand for BPM is stimulated by opportunities related to ongoing process performance improvement, process outsoucing/offshoring and the interest in process standards such as ITIL and SCOR.
Not surprisingly, global analysts such as the Gartner Group have identified Business Process Management as the number one priority of CIOs for a number of years.  The third Stevens BPM Day was held on Monday, June 22, 2009 at the Babbio Center. Click on the image to download the brochure. |
