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Professor Jan Recker

Science and Engineering Faculty,
Information Systems

Personal

Name
Professor Jan Recker
Position(s)
Professor in Retail Innovation
Science and Engineering Faculty,
Information Systems
Discipline *
Information Systems, Business and Management
Phone
+61 7 3138 9479
Fax
+61 7 3138 9390
Email
Location
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Qualifications

PhD (Queensland University of Technology)

Professional memberships
and associations
  • Association for Information Systems
  • AIS Special Interest Group on “Systems Analysis and Design”
  • AIS Special Interest Group on “Process Automation and Management”
  • AIS Special Interest Group on “Philosophy and Epistemology of IS”
  • Emerald Literati Network
  • GI Special Interest Group on “Business Process Management with Event-Driven Process Chains (EPC)”
  • Australasian Association for Information Systems
  • Business Process Management Research Center
  • WINet Wirtschaftsinformatik-Netzwerk Muenster e.V.
Keywords

Business Process Management, Business Transformation Management, Experimental research, Organizational Innovation, Process Design, Process Modeling, Qualitative research, Survey research

* Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008

Biography

Jan Recker is Full Professor and Woolworths Chair of Retail Innovation in the Information Systems School in the Science and Engineering Faculty at QUT. He is a:

  • Fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation
  • Fellow of the Liechtenstein Chapter of the Association for Information Systems.

Jan has won several awards for his research, most of which is currently in the area of organizational innovation – the design of new and improved organizational models for product and service delivery – and process design – an important organisational practice to achieve operational excellence, process efficiency and systems and business innovation.

Current research interests:

  • Context-awareness in process design
  • the use of process design in organizational practice
  • the design of sustainable processes
  • organizational innovation
  • large-scale organizational transformations

Jan is the School’s Academic Director for CPE & Consultancy. In this role, he is responsible for the management and delivery of Process Management and wider Information Systems-related education courses to corporate clients. For more information about Jan Recker, please visit his website at http://www.janrecker.com.

This information has been contributed by Professor Jan Recker.

Teaching

Teaching discipline: Information Systems

Teaching areas

  • business process management
  • process modeling
  • analysis and improvement
  • information systems development
  • introduction to information systems.

He has won a number of awards for his teaching in these areas.

Jan teaches core and elective units in:

He has also taught undergraduate and postgraduate students from other faculties taking IT elective units at both Gardens Point and at Carseldine.

Since 2005, Jan has been involved with teaching in the following roles:

Unit coordinator, lecturer, and tutor

Co-lecturer and tutor

Supervisor of course work projects

Guest lecturer

This information has been contributed by Professor Jan Recker.

Experience

Jan has provided consultancy and training services to over thirty Australian organizations, including Woolworths, Australian Federal Police, DHS, Queensland Government, Ausenco, IP Australia, Energex, CPA Australia, Landgate, Stanwell, QSuper and others. As the Woolworths Chair of Retail Innovation, his track record in working with Woolworths spans back to 2009 and includes consultancy services, directly funded research projects and invited keynotes at corporate conferences.

This information has been contributed by Professor Jan Recker.

Publications


For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.

Awards

Awards and recognition

Type
Appointment to Prestigious Positions
Reference year
2010
Details
Recipient of a Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, to conduct research on business process design quality.
Type
Visiting Professorships/Fellowships
Reference year
2010
Details
Fellowship of the Liechtenstein Chapter of the Association for Information Systems, providing funding for three years to conduct research on Sustainable Organizations.
Type
Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
Reference year
2009
Details
Vice-Chancellor's Performance Award for outstanding contributions to the university in research
Type
Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
Reference year
2009
Details
LEX Performance Improvement Award for the Most Improved Unit by Student Evaluation
Type
Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
Reference year
2008
Details
QUT Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award 2008
Type
Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
Reference year
2008
Details
LEX Performance Teaching Award for Best Teaching by Student Evaluation
Type
Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
Reference year
2008
Details
ACPHIS Information Systems Doctoral Thesis Award
Type
Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
Reference year
2005
Details
Research Capacity Building Award
Type
Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
Reference year
2004
Details
Mercer-AlumniUM-Master-Award 2004 for one of three best Master graduations of the academic year in the Faculty of Business at the University of Muenster, Germany (out of 567 graduants)

Research projects

Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)

Title
Designing Process Models to Support Communication and Decision-making
Primary fund type
Australian Competitive Grants
Project ID
DE120100776
Start year
2012
Keywords
Process Modeling, Model Quality, Experimental Research
Title
Facilitating Business Process Standardisation and Reuse
Primary fund type
Australian Competitive Grants
Project ID
LP110100252
Start year
2011
Keywords
Business Process Management, Open Source, Process Reuse, Process Standardisation, Process Governance