Business Process Management (BPM) [1] is a well-established discipline for improving organisational performance. By using a business process lens, BPM enables organisations to systematically oversee how work is performed, in order to ensure consistent outcomes and take advantage of improvement opportunities. Over time, the BPM discipline has become increasingly more complex and multi-faceted, as new technologies, business models and standards emerge on a continuous basis, and affect the way business processes are conceived, implemented and continuously monitored [2]. Businesses around the world are carrying out BPM initiatives with the aim to outperform their competitors or meet the demands of regulatory authorities. At the same time, a lively academic community is pushing the boundaries of the discipline: computer scientists, management scientists, and engineers add new ingredients to its repertoire, which are eagerly being picked up by practitioners. Against this backdrop, the aim of this tutorial is to explain what has crys-talized as the core body of knowledge of the BPM discipline, and how it can be organized for teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels. A particular focus will be on how four specific topics of BPM can be integrated in the teaching curriculum, namely: process redesign orbit, process implementation with standards, variants analysis with process mining, and BPM as an enterprise capability. The tutorial concludes with an outlook on future developments in BPM. This tutorial is suited for educators who are interested in learning how BPM can be taught using a holistic approach. It is also interesting to a general audience who would like to gain an overall understanding of the BPM discipline.
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