Business process management - S-BPM a new paradigm for competitive advantage?

Abstract

This article summarizes our motivation to deal with business process management in several dimensions. Firstly, a critical survey on the current status of business process management in industry is given. Based on well known facts from the area of business administration and strategy, we show why business process management as a whole needs to renew its paradigm, especially in the context of IT support. We further demonstrate that one emerging methodology, the notion of subject oriented business process modeling, is one of the promising candidates to change the way of working and to unfold the full potential of business process thinking in organizations. Secondly, we provide some insights into current educational and research agenda at our bachelor and master program Information Management, respectively, considering the subject oriented business process modeling approach as a valuable alternative to heretofore established procedure models. In conclusion, a brief outlook on future actions concerning S-BPM in research and education at our department is given. Business Process Managgement. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.