Towards a typology of business process management professionals: identifying patterns of competences through latent semantic analysis

Oliver Müller, Theresa Schmiedel, Elena Gorbacheva, Jan vom Brocke

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    Abstract

    While researchers have analysed the organisational competences that are required for successful Business Process Management (BPM) initiatives, individual BPM competences have not yet been studied in detail. In this study, latent semantic analysis is used to examine a collection of 1507 BPM-related job advertisements in order to develop a typology of BPM professionals. This empirical analysis reveals distinct ideal types and profiles of BPM professionals on several levels of abstraction. A closer look at these ideal types and profiles confirms that BPM is a boundary-spanning field that requires interdisciplinary sets of competence that range from technical competences to business and systems competences. Based on the study’s findings, it is posited that individual and organisational alignment with the identified ideal types and profiles is likely to result in high employability and organisational BPM success.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalEnterprise Information Systems
    Volume10
    Issue number1
    Pages (from-to)50-80
    ISSN1751-7575
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2014

    Keywords

    • Business Process Management
    • Individual Competences
    • Latent Semantic Analysis
    • Interdisciplinary Competences
    • BPM Profession Typology

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