This month, Jan vom Brocke and Peyman Badakhshan present the current status of business process management education along with lists and descriptions of where to find BPM study programs, courses, and resources. We hope you will find this Column a useful reference for you and your colleagues needing information on where to find BPM programs.
Jan vom Brocke and Peyman Badakhshan
Jan vom Brocke is head of the BPM group in Liechtenstein. He is Professor of Information Systems, the Hilti Endowed Chair of Business Process Management, and Director of the Institute of Information Systems. He is Founder of the award-winning Master Program in Information Systems with Majors in BPM and Data Science and Director of the PhD Program in Information and Process Management at the University of Liechtenstein (see: www.uni.li/mis). Jan has BPM teaching experience from 24 universities including many of the FT 50 top Business Schools such as the University of St.Gallen in Switzerland and the Smurfit School of Business at University College Dublin in Ireland, and he has been awarded e.g. the AIS Innovation in Teaching Award (2015) and the AIS Outstanding Contribution to Information Systems Education Award (2017). Jan has published 34 books, including the BPM Handbook (with Michael Rosemann) and BPM Cases – Digital Innovation and Business Transformation in Practice (with Jan Mendling), and he is author of over 400 papers in, among others MIS Quarterly (MISQ), the Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), Communications of the ACM (CACM), and MIT Sloan Management Review (MIT SMR). Jan is an invited speaker and trusted advisor on BPM serving many organizations around the world, and he can be contacted via his website: janvombrocke.com.
Peyman Badakhshan is Research Assistant and PhD Candidate at the Institute of Information Systems, the Hilti Chair of Business Process Management at the University of Liechtenstein in the Business Economics program. He holds a Master degree in Information Systems from the University of Liechtenstein and a Master degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Tehran. He is a program committee member and reviewer of BPM international conference within the management track. You can contact Peyman via mail at peyman.badakhshan@uni.li.