Subject-Oriented Business Process Management The Digital Workplace – Nucleus of Transformation

The 12th International Conference on Subject-oriented Business Process Management
(S-BPM ONE 2020), was originally planned to be held in Bremen, Germany, at the
beginning of July 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was first postponed to the
end of the year and then decided to run the conference online during December 2–3,
2020. The former S-BPM ONE conferences were held in Lisbon (Portugal) in 2019,
Vienna and Linz (Austria) in 2012 and 2018 respectively, and in Karlsruhe, Ingolstadt,
Deggendorf, Eichstätt, Kiel, Erlangen, and Darmstadt (all in Germany) starting from
2009.
The motto of the conference is “Digital Workplace – Nucleus of Transformation.” In
the mission statement of the German Ministry of Economics for 2030 on the topic of
Industry 4.0, we find the following target: sovereignty, interoperability, and sustainability. The flexible networking of different players to form agile value-added networks
is one of the central core components of digital business processes in Industry 4.0. The
interoperability of all players is a key strategic component for the design of such
complex, decentralized structures. Only a high degree of interoperability, to which all
partners in an ecosystem are committed and contribute equally, guarantees direct
operative and process-related networking across company and industry boundaries.
According to Katie Costello’s contribution at Gardner on March 18, 2019 (https://
www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/top-10-technologies-driving-the-digital-workplace/)
“How artificial intelligence, smart workspaces, and talent markets will boost employee
digital dexterity in future digital workplaces,” competitive advantage for 30% of organizations will come from the workforce’s ability to creatively exploit emerging technologies such as Deep Learning and Internet of Things applications. Hence, the average
work day is becoming filled with interactive technologies that are transforming how work
gets done. Business processes – including production and logistics processes – are keys as
their representation provide the baseline of operating these technologies and thus (implementation-independent) context for exploring and embodying upcoming developments
such as Internet of Behavior.