Class Notes: BPM Research and Education—the BPMVE Wunderkammer \In this Column, Jan Recker and a team of colleagues and students at Queensland University of Technology offer insight into what can only be described as a thrilling area of BPM research, BPM in Virtual Environments, BPMVE. It’s a work-in-progress that you don’t want to miss.
Dr Jan Recker
Dr Jan Recker is Senior Lecturer at the Business Process Management group at the Faculty of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Australia. He received a BScIS and MScIS from the University of Muenster, Germany in 2004 and a PhD in Information Systems from Queensland University of Technology in 2008. His research interests include BPM Standards, Adoption and Usage of BPM, and Business Process Flexibility. Findings from his research have appeared in more than 50 research papers. Jan is also a regular speaker at BPM practitioner conferences as well as manager and regular instructor for the QUT BPM Group's Continuing Professional Education offerings.
Class Notes: BPM Research and Education—Modelling Processes and the Question of Impact
November 6, 2012 , By
Class Notes: BPM Research and Education—Modelling Processes and the Question of Impact In this Column, Jan Recker has teamed up with a colleague, Eike Bernhard, a doctoral student at Queensland University of Technology, who is studying the impact of process modelling on organizational practices. In this Column, they hope to shed light on an age-old […]
Class Notes: BPM Research and Education—BPM Technology Research—the Case of Apromore
September 4, 2012 , By
Class Notes: BPM Research and Education—BPM Technology Research—the Case of Apromore This month, Jan Recker turns his attention to the technological side of BPM research and education. He engaged in a collaboration with two colleagues at Queensland University, Dr Marcello La Rosa and Eike Bernhard in an initiative on the development of an advanced BPM […]
Class Notes: From Product Innovation to Organization Innovation
June 5, 2012 , By
Class Notes: From Product Innovation to Organization Innovation In his Column, this month, Jan Recker analyzes some of the challenges organizations confront when they begin to view innovation from an organization-centric rather than a product-centric perspective. To be “innovation-ready,” Jan argues that we need to make an effort to extend our toolbox beyond Lean, Six […]
Class Notes: BPM Research and Education—How was School Today?
March 6, 2012 , By
Class Notes: BPM Research and Education—How was School Today? Having explored the research side of BPM in his previous Columns, Jan Recker turns his attention to the education side in his first Column in 2012. Now that BPM has gained worldwide attention, an increasing number of organizations are interested in adopting or expanding BPM initiatives, […]
Class Notes: BPM Research and Education—X—Aware Business Process Management
December 6, 2011 , By
Class Notes: BPM Research and Education—X—Aware Business Process Management In his final Column for 2011, Jan Recker discusses some current efforts in BPM research and education that try to move BPM thinking forward into new areas of application. He has chosen x-aware BPM as the general heading for these efforts.These initiatives have, in common, the […]
Class Notes: BPM Research and Education—Green, Greener BPM?
July 5, 2011 , By
Class Notes: BPM Research and Education—Green, Greener BPM? The eco-aware movement has put “sustainability” on the list of the top ten business buzz words. In his Column this month, Jan Recker explores some ideas on how BPM can contribute to the “sustainability fashion parade” and introduces some of the works scholars have produced recently in […]
Class Notes: BPM Research and Education—Of Ivory Towers and Boundary Spanners
April 5, 2011 , By
Class Notes: BPM Research and Education—Of Ivory Towers and Boundary Spanners In his debut Column, Jan Recker lays the groundwork for future Columns by analyzing the results of the Delphi Study undertaken by his research group at Queensland University in 2010. The research was conducted among three groups—BPM academics, vendors of BPM software and consultancy […]
Learning from Context to Improve Business Process
January 6, 2009 , By
Learning from Context to Improve Business Process K. Ploesser, M. Peleg, P.Soffer, M. Rosemann, and J. Recker, are members of a team of researchers from Queensland University, Australia, Stanford University, USA and Haifa University, Israel, who are currently investigating how context-awareness can become an integral part of business process modeling. They argue that to get […]
BPMN Modeling—Who, Where, How and Why
May 6, 2008 , By
BPMN Modeling—Who, Where, How and Why Jan Recker of Queensland University presents the fascinating results of a global survey of process modelers conducted from May to August of 2007. Read his Article to learn more about BPMN and its users as well as the author’s speculation on the way forward for this system.
