Industry and Society

Media Coverage (Selected)

• Reflections on Business Process Management Trends 2022: Turning Challenges into Opportunities, Interview, SAP Signavio (in English).
• Top BPM Expert Trends for 2022 and Beyond, From process management to process science, SAP Signavio (Text, in English).
• Reflections on Process Intelligence: What is Process Intelligence? (in English, in German), What do we need it for? For whom is this relevant? And some of my personal reflections on important consequences on society and our educational systems, closing event of the BPI Tour 2021, DACH region (Video, in English).
• Upskilling & Reskilling. The key to future prosperity: Representing Liechtenstein at the Swiss Digital Day, organized by European Digital Days. How to teach solving problems that have not been encountered yet, using tools that have not been invented yet?  On the creation of innovation ecosystems to jointly design innovative solutions to real-world problems (Video, in English).
• Sharing insights on the Hilti Case on Next Generation Business Process Management. How to manage processes on an enterprise level, how to develop an innovative and value adding global BPM approach? Insights at the Business BPI Tour 2021 DACH region (Video, in German).
• Talking about the importance of Culture in Business Process Management. How to measure the culture fitness of an organization to do BPM? How we developed a culture-sensitive role out strategy at a French personal care company? Who to integrate culture in a comprehensive BPM approach? Conversation at the Business BPI Tour 2021 EMEA (Video, in English).
• Conversation on Value Creation through Business Process Management and the Petrobras Case leading to the development of the BPM Billboard. How to deliver value through process technology? How to develop organizational capabilities to continuously improve and innovate? Reflections at the Business BPI Tour 2021 Americas (Video, in English)..
• Introducing Process Science – Interdisciplinary Research and Impact Opportunities in the Digital Age, Recordings of the Keynote at the 18th International Conference on Business Process Management (Video, starting 4:25, in English).
• On the role of Digitalization in Times of a Global Pandemic, Radio interview at the outset of the global pandemic, April 2020, Thoughts on the opportunities of digitalization during and after the pandemic, Radio Liechtenstein, Mittagstalk (Audio, in German).
• Inaugural Expert Forum: Does digital innovation need process models?, with Gero Decker, BPM Association,  (starting: 00:23:01, English).
• Efficiently Plan and Develop BPM Initiatives with the BPM Billboard, together with Michal Rosemann, Signavio Webinars, 2021  (Video, starting 5:50, in English).
• Strategy-oriented Process Management with the BPM Billboard, together with Jan Mendling, Signavio Webinars (Video, in German).
• The BPM Billboard – Best Practice Sharing, Cases from Hilti and Endress+Hauser, Signavio Webinars (Video, in German).
• Digitalization and Digital Transformation, Radio interview addressing the public audience, October 2019, Sonntagsgespräch (Audio, in German).
• TV Interview on the Impact of IT for Society and Economy, 1FL TV, Liechtenstein Live Talk Show “IT: Die Zukunft der Welt, die Zukunft der Unternehmen”, the regional public audience (Video, in German).

Entrepreneurial Activities (Selected)

• Co-Founder and Board Member, Digitize AG – Strategic Advisory Network for Digital Innovation and Transformation, Liechtenstein, since 2020.
• Co-Founder and Academic Advisor, Sensofy.io – Space Analytics Services for Healthy and Sustainable Living. Liechtenstein Venture Cooperative, Liechtenstein since 2020.
• Co-Founder, The AIS Practitioner Research Community, Initiative to foster the engagement of doctorly qualified professionals in research, since 2019.
• Co-Founder and Co-Editor, AIS in Practice, bringing scientific research to practice, Liechtenstein, Vaduz, since 2018.
• Co-founder, Home of Innovation – HOI, Startup Incubator and Co-Working Space, Ruggell, Liechtenstein, since 2016.
• Co-Founder and Partner, MyDesignProcess.com, documenting and sharing design science research in the cloud, Liechtenstein, Vaduz, since 2016.
• Co-Founder and Partner, MineMyText.com. cloud services for text mining, Liechtenstein, Vaduz, since 2015.BAC 2015 Best Prototype and Demo Award at ICIS 2015.
• Co-Founder and Academic Director, EDUglopedia.org. The Global Encyclopedia for Information Systems Education, Online-Community, since 2014. AIS Technology Challenge Award 2015.
• Co-founder and Director, Competence Centers on Innovation and Technology, University of Liechtenstein, since 2009: Big Data Analytics (CC-BDA), Business Process Management (CC-BPM), Enterprise Content Management (CC-ECM), Enterprise Resource Planning (CC-ERP), GreenIT (CC-GIT). Funded by local industry.
• Co-founder and Director, Competence Center for E-Learning, University of Münster, Germany, 2005-2007. Funded by BMBF (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Germany).
• Co-founder and Director – Competence Center for Internet Economics and Hybrid Systems, University of Münster, Germany, 2005-2007. Funded by BMBF.

Advisory Roles (Selected)

• Advisory Board Member, IVI – Innovation Value Institute, Maynooth University, Ireland.
• Advisory Board Member, AACSB International, Supporting the Information Systems Task Force in developing the Management Curriculum for the Digital Era (MaCuDE), AACSB International, Steevens Institute of Technology and PwC, since 2019.
• External Advisor in Business Information Systems to J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics at NUI Galway, since 2018.
• Board Member, Digital Liechtenstein, a network and platform to support digital innovation and transformation in Liechtenstein.
• Senior Advisor, Aptera.io, Blockchain start-up in the education sector, Munich, Germany, since 2018.
• Senior Advisor, own.io, Blockchain start-up in the equity market, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, since 2017.
• Executive Board Member, Gesellschaft für Prozessmanagement, Vienna, Austria, since 2016.
• Advisory Board Member, Stiftungzukunft.li. Foundation for the Future of Liechtenstein, since 2012.
• Advisory Board Member, Swisscleantech. Swiss Trade Association for Sustainable Business, Bern, Switzerland, since 2009.
• Advisory Board Member, Liechtenstein Commission for Innovation and Technological Development, Member of the State Committee, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, 2008 – 2012.
• Delegate to the European Commission on Information Technology Research and Education for the Liechtenstein Government, 2008 – 2013.

Corporate Training and Coaching (Selected)

• Signavio Webinar: BPM der Zukunft – womit Unternehmen jetzt rechnen müssen, together with Gero Decker (CEO Signavio) und Jan Mendling (WU Wien), March, 2020.
• Executive MBA HSG in Business Engineering, Module “Business Process Management”, Distance learning format with lectures, group work and coaching, March/April 2020.
• University of Lucerne, Master Class “Business Process Management“, Moved online to distance learning format with lectures, group work and coaching, March to May 2020.
• Executive Trainer, SAP Global Business Innovation Master, Training on Digital Innovation, since 2015.
• Trainer, IT Academy, founding companies: Omya, Schindler, Holcim and Hilti, Switzerland, since 2013.
• Assessor, SAP Global Business Transformation Master, Barcelona, Spain, Heidelberg, Potsdam, Germany, since 2012.
• Columnist, BPTrends.com, business platform for Business Process Management practitioners, column: Class Notes, since 2013.

Selected Industry Case Studies

• Business Process Management: vom Brocke, J., Weber, M., Grisold, T. (2021), A Matrix for Context-Aware Business Process Management: Empirical Evidence from Hilti, in: Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2021), Springer International Publishing – BPM 2021 Case Innovation Award Winner.
• Agile Management: Gerster, D., vom Brocke, J., Conboy, K., Dremel, Ch., Mayer, R. (2021), Managing Time Complexity through Agility: The Cases of Fujitsu’s World Record and Four Fortune 500 Companies, in: MIS Quarterly Executive (MISQe).
• Digitalization and Process Management: vom Brocke, J., Grisold, T., Erfolgreich Digitalisieren – Ansätze für ein modernes Prozessmanagement, in: Controlling, Zeitschrift für erfolgsorientierte Unternehmenssteuerung, 32(2020), 102-10.
• Blockchain Business Models: vom Brocke et al. (2018), Own – The Case of a Blockchain Business Model Disrupting the Equity Market CONTROLLING – Zeitschrift für erfolgsorientierte Unternehmenssteuerung, 30(5), 23-29.
• Beiersdorf – Market Analytics: vom Brocke, J., Fay, M., Böhm, M., Haltenhof, V. (2016), Creating a Market Analytics Tool that Marketers LOVE to Use – A Case of Digital Transformation at Beiersdorf, in: G. Oswald, M. Kleinemeier (Eds.), Shaping the Digital Enterprise, Springer, 2016.
• Hilti – Digital Journey: vom Brocke, J., Fay, M., Schmiedel, T., Petry, M., Krause, F., Teinzer, T., (2016), A Journey of Digital Innovation and Transformation. The Case of Hilti, in: G. Oswald, M. Kleinemeier (Eds.), Shaping the Digital Enterprise, Springer, 2016.
• Hilti – In-Memory Value, vom Brocke, J., Debortoli, S., Müller, O., & Reuter, N. (2014), How In-Memory Technology Can Create Business Value: Insights from the Hilti Case. Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS), 34(1), 151-167.
• Edeka, Coop, and SAP – In-Memory Technology, vom Brocke, J., Debortoli, S., Müller, O., Uhl, A. (2014), Driving Retail Innovation: The Demand for Digital Capabilities to Transform the Industry. 360° – The Business Transformation Journal
  , 4(9), 44-53.
• Hoval – Modeling of Enterprise Content, Simons, A., vom Brocke, J., Fleischer, S., & Becker, J. (2014), Conceptual Modeling of Electronic Content and Documents in ECM Systems Design: Results from a Modeling Project at Hoval. In vom Brocke, J., Simons, A. (Eds.), Enterprise Content Management in Information Systems Research: Foundations, Methods and Cases (pp. 237-254), Berlin: Springer.
• Liechtenstein Government – Enterprise Content Management, Simons, A., vom Brocke, J., Herbst, A., Lässer, S. (2014), Lessons Learned from Implementing Enterprise Content Management at the National Public Administration in Liechtenstein. In vom Brocke, J, Simons, A. (Eds.), Enterprise Content Management in Information Systems Research: Foundations, Methods and Cases (pp. 199-216): Berlin: Springer.
• SAP – Business Transformation, Müller, O., vom Brocke, J., von Alm, T., and Uhl, A. (2012), The Evolution of SAP Services. 360° – The Business Transformation Journal, 1(3), 48-56.
• Hilti – Business Transformation, vom Brocke, J., Petry, M., and Schmiedel, T. (2011), How Hilti Masters Transformation. 360° – The Business Transformation Journal, 1(Jul 2011), 38-47
• ThyssenKruppPresta and Ivocalar Vivadent – Enterprise Content Management, vom Brocke, J., Simons, A., Herbst, A., Derungs, R., and Novotny, S. (2011), The Business Drivers behind ECM Initiatives: A Process Perspective. Business Process Management Journal (BPMJ), 17(6), 965-985.

Selected Keynotes (Selected)

• Host and moderator of the Business Process Intelligence Tour 2021 (BPI 2021) by Signavio + SAP, Digital world tour including four events: DACH, EMEA, Asia Pacific and Americas 2021 (approx. 10.000 participants).
• Keynote at BPM2020, 18th Int. Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2020), Keynote:  Towards Process Science – Embracing Interdisciplinary Research Opportunities in the Digital Age, Sevilla, Spain, 2020 (approx.. 800 participants).
• Opening Keynote at IFIP 6.11, I3E conference, The 18th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society, Opening Keynote, Next Generation Design Science Research, Trondheim, Norway (approx. 150 participants), September 2019.
• Opening note and panel moderation at the Mobility in the Sharing Society, Inaugural ECIS Industry Forum at ECIS Stockholm (approx. 50 participants), June 2019.
• Keynote at the Signavio BPM World, 10 Principles of Good Business Process Management, Berlin (approx. 300 participants), November 2018.
• Keynote at the 11. Praxisforum, Business Process Management, Business Process Management, Höhr-Grenzhausen, June2018, (approx. 200 participants), June 2018.
• Opening Keynote at the Karlsruhe Service Summit (KSS2017), The Power of Text Mining for Service Innovation, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), (approx. 100 participants), June 2017.
• Opening Keynote at Innovations for Next Generation Automobiles, International Symposium 2016, The Power of Text Mining, Sendai, Japan (approx. 100 participants), 2016.
• Keynote at the itAIS 2016, 13th Conference of the Italian Chapter of AIS, The Potential of Text Mining: The New Modesty in IS Research?, Verona, Italy, together with Claudia Loebbecke (approx.. 75 participants), 2016.
• Opening Keynote at EMISA 2016, 7th International Workshop on Enterprise Modeling and Information Systems Architectures, Ten Principles of Good Business Process Management, Vienna, Austria (approx. 50 participants), 2016.
• Opening Keynote at the Swiss BPM Forum, Business Process Management, On the Role of Culture in Digital Innovation, Zürich, Switzerland (approx. 300 participants), 2016.
• Opening Keynote at BPM Lisbon, Master Class, Ten Principles of Good Business Process Management, Lisabon, Partugal (approx. 300 participants), 2016.
• Keynote at ICEIS 2016, 18^th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, The Power of Process Mining – How to Leverage Naturally Occurring Text Data for Effective Enterprise Information Systems Design and Use, Rome, Italy (approx. 200 participants), 2016.
• Opening Keynote at the Digital Banking Day, Big Data Analytics – How Organizations Leverage the Potential of Large Sets of Unstructured Data, University of Liechtenstein (approx. 150 participants), 2015.
• Keynote at the FinTech Congress, Digital Innovation and Transformation, Liechtenstein (approx. 100 participants), 2015.
• Keynote at the Enterprise Content Management Days, Content Audit – How to Scope Enterprise Content Management Projects, Düsseldorf Germany (approx. 200 participants), 2015
• Keynote at the Bosch Innovation Day, Business Process Management and Digital Innovation, Berlin, Germany (approx. 150 participants), Zürich Switzerland (approx. 100 participants), 2014.
• Opening Keynote at the European BPM Round Table, 2nd European BPM Round Table, Driving Innovation in a Digital World, University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein (approx. 200 participants), 2014.
• Keynote Tournament at BPM Global Trends, Road Show Brasilia, Ten Principles of Good Business Process Management, Road Show including Sao Paulo (600 participants), Rio de Janeiro (500 participants), and Brasilia (700 participants), Brazil, 2013.
• Keynote at SAP Global Business Transformation Summit 2013, On the Role of Business Excellence in Digital Capability Management, Plenary Session, Washington, USA, (approx. 200 participants), 2013.
• Keynote at SAP Global Business Transformation Summit 2012, In-Memory Value Creation, Parallel Session, Budapest, Bulgaria (approx. 100 participants), 2012.
• Keynote at BPM Summit Vienna, Six Factors for Successful Business Process Management Implementation, Vienna (approx. 200 participants), 2012.
• Keynote at the SAP Global Business Transformation Summit 2011, How Hilti Masters Transformation, Parallel Session, Barcelona, Spain (approx. 100 participants), 2011.
• Keynote at the Taipei NeuroIS Summit, On the use of Neuroscience Methods and Tools in Information Systems Research, Taipei, Taiwan (approx. 100 participants), 2011.