Business Process Transformation

Featuring contributions from prominent thinkers and researchers, this volume in the "Advances in Management Information Systems" series provides a rich set of conceptual, empirical, and introspective studies that epitomize fundamental knowledge in the area of Business Process Transformation. Processes are interpreted broadly to include operational and managerial processes within and between organizations, as well as those involved in knowledge generation. Transformation includes radical and incremental change, its conduct, management, and outcome. The editors and contributing authors pay close attention to the role of IS organizations and information technologies in facilitating business process transformation. Each chapter places major emphasis on clearly articulating the "knowledge" generated, both theoretical and applied. The book incorporates case studies and tables throughout, and provides fundamental grounding for any stakeholder of business process transformation.

Varun Grover is the William S. Lee (Duke Energy) Distinguished Professor of Information Systems at Clemson University. Prior to this, he was Business Partnership Foundation Fellow, Distinguished Researcher, and professor of IS at the University of South Carolina. Professor Grover has published extensively in the IS field, with over 150 publications in refereed journals. Five recent articles have ranked him first, second, or third in research productivity (among over 4,000 EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS 329 researchers) in the top IS journals (e.g., Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, MIS Quarterly) in the past decade. His current areas of interest are creating IS value in organizations and business process change. Professor Grover has co-authored three books on business process change. He has received numerous awards for his research and teaching from USC, Clemson, DSI, Association for Information Systems, Anbar, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Currently, he serves as the senior editor of the MIS Quarterly, Journal of the Association of Information Systems, and Database for Advances in Information Systems and associate or advisory editor of many other journals including Journal of Management Information Systems, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, and Journal of Business Process Management. M. Lynne Markus is the John W. Poduska, Sr. Professor of Information Management at the McCallum Graduate School of Business, Bentley College. She holds a B.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Case Western 330 EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS Reserve University. Professor Markus conducts research on enterprise and interenterprise systems, knowledge management, and IT-enabled organization change. She is the author/coauthor of five books and numerous articles in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Organization Science, and Management Science. She was named Fellow of the Association for Information Systems in 2004.