The project deals with topics that are per se beyond the state of the art, as most organisations are not yet incorporating the cutting-edge technology and approaches analysed and discussed in the context of the RISE_BPM project. Furthermore, the costs for risky research on core business processes are, in general, high, even for front-runners. If essential business processes fail, the implications for organisations are fatal.
In addition, up to now, the four technological enablers have never been jointly analysed and connected to the BPM lifecycle in the way addressed in this project. This is possible because the international perspective inherent to the project enables the consortium to link different schools of thought, which are both technical and managerial, and thusly enrich the research.
Moreover, new ties have unexpectedly being established between third country partners that are not funded by the Commission (e.g. Liechtenstein seconds researchers to Australia and researchers from Korea are being seconded to Liechtenstein).
Regarding the societal implications, studies have been conducted addressing specifically the workforce in the BPM field. This area has – until now – not sufficiently been in the research focus. The studies describe challenges employees face, and how those can be tackled by both, employers and employees. Furthermore, the studies shed a light on gender issues in this context. As a specific success, the 2015 publication “A Gender Perspective on Business Process Management Competences Offered on Professional Online Social Networks” has been invited to the Journal “Business Information Systems Engineering (BISE)” as one of the outstanding papers of the “23rd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2015)”. BISE is recognized as a B-rated journal. The extended version was finally published in 2016 (Gorbacheva, E.; Stein, A.; Schmiedel, T.; Müller, O. (2016). The Role of Gen-der in Business Process Management Competence Supply. In: Business and Information Systems Engineering (BISE), 58, 1–19.). The BISE senior editors recently recommended this paper as the journal’s “AIS (Association for Information Systems) Senior Scholars Best Paper Award” nominee.
As another emerging societal topic, the potentials of the sharing economy are analysed. Research provides insights into how people can leverage these findings.
Finally, research on “Green IS” discusses social, environmental, and economic dimensions of Information Systems (IS), investigating a diverse range of questions. This research is currently still in progress and will be published during the second phase (provided acceptance by the outlets).
