1st International Workshop on BPM Governance

28 September 2007

Co-located with the 5th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM'07)

BPM Governance is becoming an important part of BPM as organizations look for greater gains from BPM and seek to extend the BPM philosophy across the company. As this shift happens, several questions arise on the management of BPM programs and projects and their impact on the way organizations operate. BPM Governance comprises topics such as process ownership, decision making processes, alignment of process goals to strategic KPIs etc. Furthermore, as the focus of BPM extends to include both process management (definition-modeling-improvement) and BPM technology (automation involving BPM technology, eg, BPM engines, rules engines, BAM etc), questions emerge on the role clarity and ownership (of different aspects of BPM) between business groups and IT. The scope of governance also addresses other aspects of making BPM successful such as, alignment with strategy, choosing and implementing the right standards and people aspects such as incentives aligned to process goals amongst others. In addition, governance sometimes extends to include decisions on the best organizational structure for managing processes.

The objective of the workshop is to throw light on this complex topic by bringing together leading academic research together with tried and tested best practices from industry. This workshop has the aim to establish a preliminary body of knowledge on BPM Governance which is impacted by established governance theories and practices, but considers the special nature of BPM.