Jan vom Brocke

Prof. Dr. Jan vom Brocke is Chair of Information Systems & Business Process Management at the University of Münster and a Director of ERCIS – The European Research Center for Information Systems. His work has been published in many of the A+ and Financial Times Top 50 ranked journals, among others in Management Science, MIS Quarterly, JMIS, and MIT Sloan Management Review. He has served in many senior academic roles, including as VP Research of the University of Liechtenstein, VP Education of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) and VP Technology of the German Association for Business Research (VHB). In recognition of his work, he has been named a Fellow of the AIS.

This research project studies the understanding of continuous change. We live in an age of change, such as climate change, globalization, the platformization, or societal movements. Yet, we struggle to understand or even influence change. Process science is a new interdisciplinary field that builds on the computation of rich digital trace data, such as sensor and social media data to identify change (descriptive process science); it analyses such data in a rich empirical context to better understand change (explanatory process science), and it also develops innovative solutions to influence change for the benefit of economy and society (prescriptive process science).