The Next Wave of Research
in Business Process Management
Manfred Reichert
Ulm University, Institute of Databases and Information Systems, Germany
manfred.reichert@uni-ulm.de
WWW: www.uni-ulm.de/dbis
Abstract. Business Process Management (BPM) has been evolving as
a research discipline for more than a decade and a multitude of innova-
tive concepts, methods and techniques have been suggested, e.g., related
to process modeling languages, process model analyses, process enact-
ment infrastructures, process flexibility, and process mining. Although
BPM has matured as a research discipline, there is still a gap between
its promises and its actual achievements in practice. This keynote speech
reflects on this gap, discusses emerging challenges, and relates BPM re-
search to current waves like ”Big Data”, ”Big Software” and ”Cloud
Computing”, which provide new prospects for future BPM research.
Key words: process science, next-generation process management tools,
big processes, real-world aware processes, process flexibility
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