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BPM Conference Tutorials - Business Process Management Standards |
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27 September 2007, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM An increasing amount of activities in public and private organizations depend on the use of advanced business process management technology. Over the past 15 years a large number of standards have been proposed that cover the graphical representation, implementation, and enactment of processes. Some of them have been implemented by vendors, but few have found adoption in practice. Thus, the success of standard making in the BPM space is mixed at best. In addition, how these standards are created is generally not well understood. The effective development of BPM standards is a vital aspect of the advancement of BPM technologies and their application in practice, in particular when such standards affect critical uses such as healthcare or security-related applications. Consequently, it is important to understand how standards organizations work, which standards exist in the space of BPM, and how they might be used in practice. The proposed tutorial will introduce participants to the landscape of current and emerging BPM standards. It will be split into two parts: The first part of the tutorial will introduce participants to the landscape of BPM standards and discuss their heritage, technical concepts, and relationships. The architectural philosophies of integration standards will be highlighted and contrasted. The venues within which standards are developed are illustrated, underlying bylaws are outlined and the general worldview of different organizations such as OASIS, OMG, WfMC and W3C are explored. The second part of the tutorial focuses on research around standards and standard making. Different research questions will be posed and sample projects will be presented to illustrate how BPM standards and the related organizational developments can be analyzed. Tutorial participants from industry will learn which standards in the BPM space exist or are under development, which problems they are supposed to solve, and how they can be used in practice. They will be able to assess which standards may be relevant for their organization and what questions a tool vendor should be able to answer when it comes to standards support. Tutorial participants from academia will learn how standards making works, and how both the standard making process and the resulting artifacts can be studied using a variety of research approaches. Outline
PresenterMichael zur Muehlen Brief BiographyMichael zur Muehlen is Assistant Professor of Information Systems at Stevens Institute of Technology where he directs the SAP/IDS Scheer Center of Excellence in Business Process Innovation. Michael is an internationally known expert in the Business Process Management area and has conducted various process improvement projects in the utility, financial services, industrial, and telecommunications sector both in Germany and the U.S. Michael's research interests center around the organizational aspects of BPM technology, risk-aware process management, and process support for managerial decision making. He is a life fellow of the Workflow Management Coalition and chairs the WfMC working group “Management and Audit”. He is a regular participant in standard meetings and was a presenter at both the OMG BPM Think Tank and the WfMC standards world tour. His research has been funded by SAP Research, the US Army, the Australian Research Council, and a number of corporate sponsors. Michael has presented his research in 20 countries. He is the author of a book on workflow-based process controlling, 10 journal articles and numerous book chapters, conference and working papers on workflow and process management. Michael holds a PhD and an MS in Information Systems from the University of Muenster, Germany. |
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