Research Focus
The competence center "BPM in Financial Industries" addresses current business process management (BPM) topics that are of major interest to financial sector institutions - primarily focussing on banks and insurance companies. The main research areas of the competence center currently include:
- business process management
- process architecture / landscaping
- business process modeling
- business process analysis
- process controlling
- process optimization
- process benchmarking
- business process intelligence
- business process compliance management
- process-oriented operational risk management
Aim
Its aim is to foster joint research among the partner institutions of the competence center "BPM in Financial Industries," as well as intensify an industry-academic exchange with leading financial sector institutions all over the world, with a current focus on Germany and Australia.
Founders
It was founded on October 8th, 2010 by the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) at the University of Muenster, together with the ProcessLab at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management (HfB), the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) from Australia, and the South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences.
The founding partners are:
Prof. Dr. Jörg Becker, Managing Director of the ERCIS, Prorector of the University of Muenster
Prof. Dr. André Coners, Professor for Controlling and Process Management, South Westphalian University of Applied Sciences
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Moormann, Director of the ProcessLab, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management (HfB)
Prof. Dr. Michael Rosemann, Head of the Information Systems Discipline, Co-Leader of the Business Process Management Group, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
PD Dr. Axel Winkelmann, Interim Professor for Business Information Systems, ERCIS, University of Muenster