bpm 2012 - 8th International Workshop on Business Process Design (BPD)

Business Process Design is at the core of Business Process Management. As the most value-adding stage of the process lifecycle, it is dedicated to the development of improved and compliant business processes. Designing a process that improves corporate performance is a challenging task that requires multi-disciplinary expertise and a plethora of inputs (for example, organizational strategies, goals, constraints, human and technical capabilities, to name a few). However, unlike other well-defined and theory-grounded stages of the process lifecycle (e.g., process modeling), Process Design is scarcely understood and lacks a widely accepted and sound theoretical foundation. Existing scientific approaches have focused often on only small, well-understood business domains and are either centered around atomic improvement proposals or general reference models. Overall, much more attention is devoted to process modeling techniques and standards than actual value-adding Process Design. The lack of comprehensive research on Process Design limits the effectiveness of BPM professionals, who currently rely heavily on tacit knowledge and personal experiences in the absence of process improvement guidelines or proven practices.
The Business Process Design (BPD) International Workshop series is dedicated to improving the understanding, reliability and quality of Process Design. The event is exclusively focused on the design, innovation, evaluation and comparison of process improvement methods, tools and techniques. In particular, we are interested in papers that propose innovative approaches towards the design of processes and complementary artifacts (e.g., organizational design). We explicitly encourage the submission of inter-disciplinary approaches and findings grounded in empirical evidence. In particular, we invite authors who can report on validated Design methodologies and Process Innovation. It is the explicit goal of this event to go significantly beyond narrow and marginal extensions of the existing body of methodological and technical design knowledge. We appreciate diversity in the underlying research methodologies and welcome papers along the entire Design Science to Behavioral Science continuum.
BPD 2012 is the 8th workshop in its series and is organised in 2012 in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Business Process Management. It will be held in Tallin, Estonia, in 3-6 September, 2012. Accepted papers will appear in printed Springer LNBIP proceedings.