There are plenty of BPM program offerings to date, ranging from ½-day BPMN modeling workshops to fully accredited academic programs that provide Master’s and MBA degrees with concentrations in Business Process Management. A good way to evaluate the content of these programs is to study the outcome, i.e. what skills you will have acquired once [...]
About CEBPI
The Center for Business Process Innovation (CEBPI) is an association of researchers from Stevens Institute of Technology and affiliates from Academia and Industry. We study how process innovation improves organizational performance, and how business process technologies can be better managed in organizations. CEBPI hosts a state-of-the-art BPM technology lab with different commercial and open source BPM tools, and provides executive education on process innovation, a graduate certificate on BPM and Service Innovation, as well as courses to build Business Process Management skills for the undergraduate Business & Technology program at Stevens.
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New York City Transit partners with CEBPI to improve Asset Management
NYC Transit, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s arm responsible for operating subways and buses in New York City is partnering with researchers from CEBPI to study its processes in the area of asset management. The MTA’s assets range from rolling stock (subway cars and buses) to infrastructure components such as stations, tracks and signals. In partnership [...]
Continue →New Book: BPM 2010 Workshops
Michael zur Muehlen, Jianwen Su (eds.): Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2010 International Workshops and Education Track, Hoboken, NJ, USA, September 13-15, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of nine international workshops held in Hoboken, NJ, USA, in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM [...]
Continue →Building BPM Skills for Different Roles
Business Process Management skills are a hot commodity these days. A HotJobs query typically returns 50,000 job openings that required some degree of business process expertise. But what exactly is the skill set of a BPM expert? Here’s a hint: Not everybody needs to be fluent in BPEL. And how many different flavors of BPM [...]
Continue →The Case for Conformance
It is hard to call the Business Process Modeling Notation anything but a success. Stephen White and the other members of the BPMN standardization group have spent nearly 10 years developing and fine-tuning a common graphical representation for business processes, and both tool support and user uptake have been heartening. But BPMN never had one [...]
Continue →Stevens Hosts BPM 2010 Conference
The Center for Business Process Innovation at Stevens Institute of Technology hosted the 8th International Conference on Business Process Management, held from September 13 through 16, 2010. This was the first time this prestigious conference is held in North America, and only the second time it was held outside of Europe. BPM 2010 was the [...]
Continue →CEBPI Director wins 2010 Online Teaching Excellence Award
Michael zur Muehlen, Associate Professor of Information Systems at the Howe School of Technology Management and online instructor for the WebCampus department at Stevens Institute of Technology, was the second recipient for the Online Excellence Award at Convocation 2010. Dr. zur Muehlen believes that distance learning requires more discipline than many students initially assume. “Continual [...]
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