This project developed a reference curriculum to teach explorative Business Process Management (explorative BPM) to university students. This was motivated by two observations. First, digital innovation is becoming more and more important, and future manager should know about potentials associated with emerging technologies. Second, while BPM has become an influential management paradigm in contemporary organizational work, it has traditionally neglected the role of (digital) innovation.In response to these observations, we developed a curriculum to teach explorative BPM. In doing so, we (1) conducted conceptual and empirical research and developed the Five Diamond Method to realize explorative BPM in organizations, (2) used this model to design a 4-ECTS curriculum which we have taught and evaluated at universities in Austria, Germany and Liechtenstein, as well as with practitioners and BPM professionals and (3) disseminated our results through academic talks, several publications and an innovative virtual workshop format.In terms of dissemination, we want to highlight the following numbers:- We taught the explorative BPM curriculum to around 200 students in three European unviersities- We presented the Five-Diamond-Method to around 170 practitioners in Europe- We presented and discussed our findings with around 80 academics at various conferences in Europe - We published our findings in academic as well as practitioner-related journalsTaken together, this project created considerable impact on students, practitioners and academics. In terms of long-term impact, we expect that our FIve-Diamond-Method will continue to enhance innovation activities in the context of BPM, and inform future research activities in the international academic environment.

The project developed a reference curriculum for executive education on Business Process Management (BPM) for Europe. Such a curriculum is strongly needed, because there is a huge demand for competences in BPM, which is about the value creating application of information and communication technology (ICT) in business and society to support excellence and innovation. A number of European initiatives, such as the Digital Agenda 2020 and the eSkills initiatives, showed the need for this project, and the project directly addressed a number of ERASMUS+ priorities, for example, enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training, and youth work at various levels, supporting the implementation of reforms in line with the 2011 EU Modernisation Agenda's priority areas, and supporting the implementation of the 2013 Communication on Opening Up Education, just to name a few. The objective of the project was to foster BPM executive education in Europe in order to contribute to excellence and innovation in economy and society in general and in industry, banking, administration, education, government, and health care in particular. Since BPM experts are scarce in general and especially in Europe, the goal of the project was to contribute to establishing excutive BPM eduction throughout Europe with the help of a network of leading BPM research institutions.The project brought together five leading BPM research institutions in Europe. Partners were - the University of Liechtenstein (Professor Jan vom Brocke) that addresses BPM from a managerial perspective with leading research on business process improvement and innovation, - the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Professor Jan Mendling) that addresses BPM from a methodological perspective with leading research on business process modelling, - the VU University Amsterdam (Professor Hajo Reijers) that addresses BPM from a technological perspective with leading research on workflow management systems and process mining, - the Copenhagen Business School (Professor Mathias Trier) that addresses BPM from a social network perspective with leading research on network analysis, and - the University of Münster (Professor Jörg Becker) that addresses BPM from a semantic and domain-related perspective with leading research on BPM in eGovernment. The consortium members contributed profound BPM expertise they have gathered through decades of research in the field of BPM. The project consolidated the specialized knowledge of the consortium members by workshops and creativity techniques. The involvement of target users and co-creation techniques facilitated shaping the BPM curriculum towards the specific needs of BPM professionals. All participants had profound experience in managing and conducting large-scale research projects on the European level, and professional project management further contributed to project success.The results of the project are useful for a wide range of stakeholders, especially because the curriculum is publically available. Apart from traditional elements of BPM, also recent research findings are integrated into the lectures, such as leveraging BPM in order to drive digital innovation to foster global competitiveness of the European economy and society. In particular, the project produced seven intellectual outputs that are ready to use for educational institutions throughout Europe, including a BPM Curriculum Framework, five BPM Curriculum modules, and a final report. These outputs go far beyond the existing educational offerings because they integrate world-leading up-to-date research results and they are tailor made for the needs of EU professionals using innovative virtual and blended learning scenarios.Beyond achieving the initial goals, the project partners also managed to already set up a first implementation of the reference curriculum they developed. They established a BPM Executive Program that allows professionals to receive a comprehensive education and certification in the field of BPM based on the reference curriculum. The first run of the program will start in February 2018.