SocialBPM School 2012 - International Summer School on Social Business Process Management, Crowdsourcing and social enterprise

First International Summer School on Social Business Process Management
Crowdsourcing and social enterprise
Como, Italy
July 17-20, 2012
http://socialbpmschool.webratio.com/
SOCIAL BPM
Social BPM (Social Business Process Management) is defined as the effort of designing and executing business processes collaboratively by leveraging social networking. It aims at:
- Exploiting weak ties between people and implicit enterprise know-how to improve activity execution and disseminating of knowledge.
- Increasing transparency and participation to the decision procedures, so as to raise awareness of the processes and acceptance of the outcomes.
- Involving (informal) communities in activity execution, thus assigning the execution to a broader set of performers or to find most appropriate contributor within a group.
THE SUMMER SCHOOL
The Social BPM Summer School is organized by Politecnico di Milano in collaboration with OMG, University of Trento, and the BPM4People project. The school will be held in Como, Italy, from July 17 to July 20, 2012.
The School will feature world-renown speakers in the field, spanning from industry to academia and standardization bodies. Among the others, speakers will include:
- Richard Soley (Chairman of OMG),
- Bruce Silver (US trainer and consultant in BPM),
- Sandy Kemsley (worldwide expert in Social BPM, Canada),
- Claudio Bartolini (Social Enterprise expert from HP Labs Palo Alto, USA),
- Gregorio Convertino (Xerox PARC and XRCE).
The School will address the motivational, business and technical issues associated to the adoption of Social BPM practices in the enterprise and will comprise a project work developed by participants during the days of the school. The sessions will delve into topics such as crowdsourcing, social enterprise modeling, and related issues.
The School comprises a practical project work, performed under the guidance of the Social BPM experts in dedicated sessions during the School days.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
- July 17 ? FOUNDATIONS
09.30 ? Welcome (Piero Fraternali)
10.00 ? BPM: technical and business challenges (Fabio Casati, Unitn)
11.00 ? Mashups, personal processes and task composition on the web (Florian Daniel, Unitn)
14.00 ? BPMN method and style (Bruce Silver, Silver Associates)
17.30 ? Presentation of the project work activity and definition of work groups
18.00 ? Welcome reception
- July 18 ? TECHNOLOGIES
09.00 ? Crowdsourcing and GWAP techniques (Alessandro Bozzon, Polimi)
11.00 ? Social BPM: a model-driven approach to design (Marco Brambilla, Polimi)
14.00 ? The WebRatio toolsuite for Social BPM (Emanuele Molteni, WebRatio)
16.00 ? Project work session
- July 19 ? BUSINESS
9.30 ? Social BPM: a business perspective (Sandy Kemsley, Independent consultant, Canada)
14.00 ? Social in the Enterprise (Claudio Bartolini, HP Research, USA)
16.00 ? Project work session
19.00 ? Social event: dinner on the lake
- July 20 ? STANDARDIZATION AND OUTLOOK
09:30 ? BPM and social aspects: standardization and industrial perspective (Richard Soley, OMG, USA)
11:30 ? Outlook and future applications of Social BPM (all speakers, final panel)
14:00 ? Presentation and discussion of project works
17:00 ? Closing ceremony
LOGISTICS AND EVALUATION
Participants can apply by sending a filled-in form to the organizers by June 1st, 2012. The approved participants (notified within 3 days) can register to the school. The fee is 400 Euros and includes all the school expenses, except for travel and accommodation. Teaching materials and free copies of books (thanks to WfMC and Future Strategies publishers) will be provided too.
Ten scholarships will be awarded to the 10 best CVs. The scholarship will consist in free access to the school (only travel and accommodation expenses remain in charge of the attendees).
Ph.D. students attending the school will receive a formal evaluation and attendance certificate, valid for achieving credits within Ph.D. programs.
The Social BPM Summer School will be held in Como, Italy. The venue is in the Palazzo Natta, one of the premises of Politecnico di Milano located in the city centre of Como, within the medieval walls of the city and at walking distance to the Como lake sidewalk and to the shopping district.
For any enquiries you can contact: summerschool-AT-polimi.it or mbrambil-AT-elet.polimi.it.