Business Process Management Research - Reflection and Projection

Not so long ago I was asked "What are the three most pressing research questions in the area of Business Process Automation?" This talk tries to shed some light on this question and possible answers. After all, Business Process Management has been subject of academic study for close to 30 years. But what do we have to show for it? And how do we move forward? This talk examines the current state of the research field and provides some suggestions on how the inherently interdisciplinary area can benefit from research frameworks that allow researchers in both technical and organizational fields to build on each other's results.

Speaker Biography

Michael zur Muehlen is an assistant professor of Information Systems at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ, where he directs the SAP/IDS Scheer Center of Excellence in Business Process Innovation. His research interests are the organizational aspects of business process automation, workflow-based process monitoring, and the design of process-oriented system architectures. Michael is a member of the editorial board of the Journal on Business Process Integration and Management. He is fellow of the Workflow Management Coalition and director of the AIS special interest group on process automation and management. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Information Systems from the University of Muenster, Germany.

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