I am delighted and honored to have hosted today one of the leading experts in process mining and BPM in general, prof. Marlon Dumas, at my Master Business Process Management course, at the University of Maribor, Slovenia. Dr. Marlon Dumas is professor at the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Tartu in Estonia. …
A New Paper Published in Springer’s Software and Systems Modeling Journal
I am happy to announce that we published a new paper in Software and Systems Modeling Journal entitled "Conceptualization, measurement, and application of semantic transparency in visual notations". Diagrams have an essential role in human interactions with complex systems. To assure effective communications, they need to be comprehensible, which depends also on the applied visual …
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Improving IT Performance with COBIT 2019
Recently I've successfully performed a COBIT 2019-related online training for a larger international audience (DigEco project). The focal objective of the four hours training was to present COBIT 2019, the state-of-the-art IT enterprise governance framework, especially in light on how it can facilitate the performance of IT and the overall enterprise. COBIT 2019 builds on …
Guest Editor on the impacts of BPMN in BISE Journal
On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of BPMN 2.0 (Business Process Model and Notation), you are invited to submit contributions to a special issue of one of the leading journals in the field of information systems, "Business & Information Systems Engineering - BISE", with an impact factor of 5.837 in 2019. I am happy …
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What’s inside BPMN 2.0 Specification
In recent years BPMN 2.0 became a de facto standard in business process modeling and beyond and nowadays represents one of the focal technologies which support Business Process Management (BPM) initiatives. The in-use version of the specification, namely BPMN 2.0, was released by OMG in 2011, with some minor changes in the following years. In …
Digitalization of economic as an element of sustainable development
As a part of a project entitled "Digitalization of economic as an element of sustainable development of Ukraine and Tajikistan", I've performed a Zoom-based "training for teachers" workshop about Digital Business Models to a large international audience. In a four hours lecture I've provided an overview on digital business models, which are nowadays present in …
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Business Process Management: The evolution of a discipline
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Computers in Industry, which is a top-ranked, application-oriented research journal, Prof. Dr. Hajo Reijers wrote an excellent overview article on Business Process Management, highlighting the development of the BPM discipline over the years. I am grateful and honored that the author referenced and paraphrased my recent work …
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An insight into the structure of COBIT 2019
Are you applying COBIT for the management of IT? Here is a reverse engineered UML Class diagram (conceptual model) of its latest revision - COBIT2019.
RITA – Special issue on BPM is now online
As a member of the editorial team, I am happy to announce that the Special Issue on Business Process Management - Vol 28, No 1 (2021), which has been published in Revista de Informática Teórica e Aplicada - RITA (ISSN 2175-2745) is now available on the journal's website. The accepted papers cover the following topics: …
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Workshop on Process Mining with Celonis EMS
I am really grateful to the experts from Celonis, who performed a workshop based invited lecture on Process Mining with Celonis EMS solutions. The workshop took place on Zoom on 11. Jan 2021 at 13.00 CET and was primary intended to my IT Master students. The agenda of the workshop Celonis is pioneer in Digital …
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