Up to 3 new positions (1 Research Fellow and up to 2 PhD students) are available at the BPM Research Group within the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. The positions are under a new research project on “Facilitating Business Process Standardization and Reuse”.

Project background

One of the most pressing management challenges of today’s organisations lies in the reuse and standardisation of best practices across different sectors, products or units. This project aims to design and develop an innovative process model repository and appropriate governance structures to efficiently and effectively support the standardisation and reuse of best practices. The project is co-founded by Suncorp, one of Australia’s top 25 listed companies and Queensland’s largest listed corporation. Suncorp provides a range of banking and insurance products directly to customers through an extensive branch and agency network, call centre operations, on-line facilities, and through intermediaries and corporate partners. The collaboration with Suncorp will offer the successful applicants an opportunity to work with real-life business process models, and the possibility to conduct case studies to validate the outcomes of their research.

Research Fellow

The role of this research fellow is to work on algorithms and techniques to facilitate standardization of proven practices in large collections of business process models. Moreover, the fellow is expected to take a key role in the management of the research project. S(he) will assist in the supervision of research students where required, and participate in the development of the project by preparing and collating publications, reports and articles, as appropriate. Furthermore, s(he) will develop, and oversee the development of, prototypical software.

Position Title:                                            Research Fellow

Closes:                                                       14 February 2011

Organisational Area:                               Information Systems, Faculty of Science and Technology

Campus:                                                     126 Margaret Street, Brisbane

Salary Range/Classification:                   $72 617 to $86 241 pa Research Fellow (Level B)

Superannuation:                                      17% employer contribution

Status:                                                        Fixed-term for up to 2 years

Start date:                                                 mid 2011

Position Contact and Title:                     Dr Marcello La Rosa

(07) 3138 9482 or m.larosa@qut.edu.au

Open to:                                                    Australian and International Applicants.

PhD 1

The role of this PhD student is to work on algorithms to reuse best practices within large process model collections. Within this work, the PhD student will be required to conduct requirements analysis, formal algorithm specification, implementation and testing.

Position Title:                                            PhD in Computer Science

Closes:                                                       14 February 2011

Organisational Area:                               Information Systems, Faculty of Science and Technology

Campus:                                                     126 Margaret Street, Brisbane

Scholarship:                                              $27,222 pa (tax exempt) + tuition fee waiver

Status:                                                        Fixed-term 3 years

Start date:                                                 March 2011

Position Contact and Title:                     Dr Marcello La Rosa

(07) 3138 9482 or m.larosa@qut.edu.au

Open to: Australian and International Applicants.

PhD 2

The role of this PhD student is to examine theoretically and empirically the use, appropriation, governance and impact of the process model repository to be built within this project, in contexts of process standardization and reuse. To that end, the PhD student will be required to examine managerial aspects of process modelling, the use of process modelling in actual organisational task settings, as well as important organisational decision-making structures.

Position Title:                                            PhD in Information Systems

Closes:                                                       14 February 2011

Organisational Area:                               Information Systems, Faculty of Science and Technology

Campus:                                                     126 Margaret Street, Brisbane

Scholarship:                                              $27,222 pa (tax exempt) + tuition fee waiver

Status:                                                        Fixed-term 3 years

Start date:                                                 March 2011

Position Contact and Title:                     A/Prof. Jan Recker

(07) 3138 9479 or j.recker@qut.edu.au

Open to:                                                    Australian and International Applicants.

More information on these positions can be found at http://www.bpm.fit.qut.edu.au/about/opportunities/index.jsp#positions.