The BPM-Discipline
Strategy Execution in a Digital World
Mathias Kirchmer
University of Pennsylvania / BPM-D, USA
Abstract: According to a recent study of The Gartner Group only 13% of business meet their yearly strategic goals.
This means 87% of organizations prepare strategic plans and related goals – but they don’t meet their goals.
In addition, less than 1% of companies have prepared their business processes to realize the potential of our
digital world. Hence the risk of not executing successfully on a business strategy becomes even higher. This
presentation will show how the discipline of business process management (BPM) addresses those issues. It
helps organizations targeting value in a digital world through cross-functional integrated business and
technology initiatives. BPM becomes the management discipline of strategy execution. The presentation
discusses the value and key components of the discipline of process management. It introduces a patent-
pending framework to establish and manage a BPM-Discipline successfully. This management discipline
helps companies to organize their “process of process management” resulting in increased productivity and
performance – and at the end in a systematic execution of their strategy. We will discuss the research prototype
of a next generation software application supporting the application of the framework. The BPM-Discipline
leverages the opportunities of the digital world systematically to deliver business value fast and at low risk,
by executing strategy systematically.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
As innovative and pragmatic top executive, including
roles as CEO and Managing Director, Dr. Kirchmer
has worked successfully in an international
environment. He is a visionary leader, thought leader
and innovator in the field of Business Process
Management (BPM). Dr. Kirchmer has combined his
broad practical business experience with his
extensive academic research, leading to pioneering
management approaches that have proven to be both,
sustainable and provide immediate benefits. His deep
and layered knowledge of BPM has proven successful
with small and large companies in various industries
around the world, including Germany, France, USA,
Brazil, Chile, Japan, and India. Most recently, Dr.
Kirchmer has founded BPM-D, a company focused
on enabling the next generation enterprise by
leveraging the discipline of BPM. Before Dr.
Kirchmer has been Accenture’s Managing Director &
Global Lead for BPM. Prior to joining Accenture, Dr.
Kirchmer was the CEO of the Americas & Japan and
The Chief Innovation & Marketing Officer for IDS
Scheer, a leading provider of software and consulting
solutions for BPM, best known for its ARIS software.
Dr. Kirchmer remains involved in academia as an
affiliated faculty member at the University of
Pennsylvania since 1998, the Business School of
Widener University, Philadelphia University and the
Universidad of Chile as a visiting professor. In 1984,
he received a research and teaching fellowship from
the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Dr.
Kirchmer is a published authority of BPM authoring
6 books as well as over 120 articles and public
presentations. Dr. Kirchmer holds a PHD in
Information Systems from Saarbrucken University, a
Master in Business Informatics from Karlsruhe
Technical University, as well as a Master in
Economics from Paris-IX-Dauphine University. He
resides in West Chester, Pennsylvania and has a US
and German citizenship.
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The BPM-Discipline - Strategy Execution in a Digital World.
DOI: 10.5220/0006221600070008
In Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design (BMSD 2016), pages 7-8
ISBN: 978-989-758-190-8
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