High Performance Through Business Process Management

Dr. Kirchmer is a visionary leader, thought leader and innovator in the field of Business Process Management (BPM), combining his broad practical business experience with his extensive academic research. He has added significant value to organizations of various sizes and industries in an international environment.Most recently, Dr. Kirchmer co-founded BPM-D, a company focused establishing and applying the BPM-Discipline for strategy execution in a digital world. BPM-D was named by CIO Review one of the 20 Enterprise Architecture solution providers to watch and by InsithsSuccess one of the 50 most valuable Tech Start-ups in the US. Before he was Accenture’s Managing Director & Global Lead for BPM and CEO of the Americas & Japan for IDS Scheer, best known for its ARIS software.Dr. Kirchmer remains involved in academia as an affiliated faculty member at University of Pennsylvania, Widener University, Philadelphia University and guest professor at the Universidad de Chile. In 2004, he received a research and teaching fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Dr. Kirchmer has published 6 books and over 120 articles. Dr. Kirchmer holds a PhD in Information Systems from Saarbrucken University, Germany, a Master in Business Informatics from Karlsruhe Technical University, Germany, as well as a Master in Economics from Paris-IX-Dauphine University, France.

• Business Process Management: What Is It and Why Do You Need It?- Innovation – enabled by Process Management.- Digital Technologies for Process Execution.- People Enablement for Process Execution.- Business Process Government.- Reference Models – Accelerators and more.- Managing Inter-enterprise Processes.- Managing Emergent Processes in a Digital World.- Globalization Requires Value-driven BPM.- Small and Medium Enterprises need Value-driven BPM.- What has Jazz to Do with BPM.- The Discipline of Value-driven BPM in Practice – A Case Example.