Prof Jan vom Brocke
About
Professor Jan vom Brocke is a Distinguished Professor of Process Science at Maynooth University in Ireland. He is the Director of the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) and holds the Chair of Information Systems & Business Process Management at the University of Münster in Germany.
Jan has published among others in Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Information Technology, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, and MIT Sloan Management Review.
Jan's research has been pioneering in many areas, especially in the fields of business process management, design science research, digital nudging and green information systems. He is considered one of the co-founders of ‘process science’, an interdisciplinary field that analyses socio-technical change from different disciplinary perspectives. In particular, digital trace data is analyzed to capture and explain change, and to intervene in change to advance businesses and sustainable societies.
Professor vom Brocke's work has been recognised with numerous international awards. He has been named a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), a Schoeller Senior Fellow of Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) in Germany, a Fellow of the ESCP Centre for Design Science in Entrepreneurship, and a Digital Leader in his home country Liechtenstein. International rankings consistently place Jan among the top 50 in the world and the top 10 in Europe. In the current Stanford List of World`s Top 2% Scientists, Jan is ranked in the top 0.5% (in the career-accompanying database) and the top 0.1% (in last year`s data set) across all scientific fields.
Jan brings teaching experience from 26 universities in 13 countries on Executive, PhD-, Master and Bachelor-level, incl. many of the FT50 Top Business Schools, such as the University of St.Gallen in Switzerland, the Vlerick Business School in Belgium, the University of Warwick in the UK, Aarhus University in Denmark, and the Smurfit School of Business in Ireland. His students won international prizes like the Accenture Campus Challenge or the SAP DemoJam, and they received prestigious recognitions like the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Young Researcher Invitation.
Professor vom Brocke has a track record of building impactful academic institutions. At the University of Liechtenstein, he established the Institute for Information Systems, which has become one of the top 40 worldwide with his leadership, the top 5 in Europe and 1st in the competitive Germany-Austria-Switzerland region. He is also the founder and president of the Liechtenstein chapter of the AIS, which has been honored with the ‘AIS Outstanding Chapter Award’ ten years in a row since its establishment in 2014.
Jan served as Vice President for Research at the University of Liechtenstein for two consecutive terms and is currently Vice Dean for Internationalization at the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Münster. He has chaired many international conferences, such as the European Conference on Information Systems in Münster, and is a member of the editorial board of numerous high-ranking journals in the field of information systems and management.
Professor vom Brocke has secured over €50 million in competitive research funding as for example from the European Union (EU), the Liechtenstein Research Foundation, the Swiss Research Foundation, the German Research Foundation, the local government, and industry.
Jan vom Brocke is an invited speaker and trusted advisor to many DAX 30 and Fortune 500 companies as well as Start-ups and supports governments across Europe on their digital transformation journey.