In this Column, Jan vom Brocke and his colleagues Jan Mendling, Michael Rosemann and Manuel Weber, present a tool – the BPM Billboard – which has been developed to capture all relevant aspects of a successful BPM approach in a “one-page-representation”. Read to see a useful tool for your BPM practice.

In this leading edge Column, Jan vom Brocke and his colleagues, Manuel Weber and Thomas Grisold present a BPM context framework to identify essential attributes to pinpoint the contextual requirements of business processes. Here, they report on the first global level project using the matrix.

Jan vom Brocke, Thomas Grisold, Steven Gross, Jan Mendling, Maximilian Röglinger, and Katharina Stelzl gather as a team to explain how to enable explorative BPM in your organization. The implementation method is characterized by clear and straightforward suggestions. Read for surprising enlightenment on the subject.

Although Business Process Management has proven, for the most part, to be successful in supporting both efficiency and effectiveness in business processes, its adoption has proven to be a challenge for many organizations. In his Column this month, Jan vom Brocke teams up with his colleagues at the University of Liechtenstein, Peyman Badakhshan and Theresa Schmiedel, to present a tool for organizations to use in assessing and developing their BPM approach.

In this issue of Class Notes Jan vom Brocke teams up with Peyman Badakhshan and Thomas Grisold, colleagues at the University of Lichtenstein; and Kieran Conboy, from the National University of Galway, to reveal first findings of their latest research into the development of an integrative framework for agile BPM. Based on these findings, they offer some suggestions for how practitioners can integrate agility in their BPM activities.

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.

In this Column, Jan vom Brocke and his colleagues Jan Mendling and Ingo Weber report on recent research in the area of Blockchain and Business Process Management. Based on their report, the authors have provided recommendations for organizations wishing to capitalize on the new technology in each of the six lifecycle phases.

In a joint effort of colleagues from BPM practitioners and academics, a project was launched to collect cases from their experience in applying BPM in the real world. In this Column, Jan vom Brocke and his colleague, Jan Mendling report on this initiative and outline the diversity of these cases including the various sectors and objectives.

Jan vom Brocke and his colleagues, Oliver Mueller, and Stefan Debortoli, at the University of Lichtenstein, provide a detailed account of their investigation of
text-mining’s potential to foster BPM capabilities. Read their Column for Their conclusions.

This month, Jan vom Brocke updates previous Class Notes Columns which described the wide range of locations throughout the world where BPM education was offered. Now, the University of Liechtenstein has developed a website, EDUglopedia.org for pooling knowledge of BPM courses worldwide. Read Jan’s Column for details.