2010 - ERCIS

Queensland University of Technology –
Business Process Management Group
34
About the Institution
QUT’s Business Process Management
(BPM) Group is one of the world’s largest
applied research groups dedicated to rigorous
and relevant research on all facets of
process-centered management. With more
than 30 members, substantial knowledge
exists to conduct a broad scope of topics in
great depth and detail.
With a global reputation for our work on
maturity management, process life-cycle
management, process modelling, workflow
patterns, and YAWL (Yet Another Workflow
Language), our group has had a substantial
impact on the global body of BPM
knowledge and its uptake in industry and
academia. A number of books published
by QUT members have become standard
references in the BPM domain, and many
of the group’s scientific articles reside
amongst the mostcited works in BPM.
QUT was the first university, outside Europe,
to host the International Conference
on Business Process Management in 2007.
Our vision is to be the global innovator
and educator in the area of BPM, and to
draw from and positively impact industry
and the community via the conduct
and transfer of research following highest
standards.
Research Topics
We are conducting applied research on
the entire business process lifecycle. A key
focus of the BPM group is process modelling
and process execution with a concentration
on the design of models, which are
intuitive, scalable, configurable and executable.
Special areas of research are business
process modelling in the large, the
configuration of reference process models
and the ontological analysis of process
modelling techniques.
The research portfolio of the BPM
Group covers topics such as:
• BPM maturity management
• BPM value management
• Process modelling standards (e.g.
BPMN)
• BPM in selected industries (e.g.
health, finance, retail, aviation,
entertainment)
• Process visualisation
• BPM education / BPM body of knowledge
• Workflow management
• Managing large repositories of business
process models
• Business Service Management.
We have an established track record of
conducting collaborative, mutually beneficial
research on applied BPM problems.
These are either directly funded by an industry
partner or leverage third party funding
[e.g. as part of an Australian Research
Council (ARC) Linkage grant or within a
Collaborative Research Centre (CRC)]. The
projects typically cover a period from six
months to up to three years and focus on
innovative problems leading to new intellectual
property.
Examples of recent projects include:
• Orchestration of Managerial Services
as Part of Large Scale Business
Transformations (funded by SAP
Business Transformation, 2010-
2013)
• Value-centred Business Process
Management (funded by Accenture,
USA, 2010-2011)
• Risk-aware Business Process Management
(funded by the Australian
Research Council,2011-2013)
• Business Process Standardisation
and Reuse (funded by Australian
Research Council and Suncorp)
• Business Service Management
(funded by CRC Smart Services,
2008-2013)
• Airports of the Future (funded by
Australian Research Council and a
large number of aviation stakeholders,
2010-2013)