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Inauguration lecture trkman felu_october 2018
- 1. And then what? Information systems, supply chain management and everything Inaugural lecture for promotion to full professor October, 11 2018 Peter Trkman Ph. D. peter.trkman@ef.uni-lj.si Feel free to use & copy in any way you want (without permission)
- 2. About the school where I will get promoted Triple Crown accreditations – EQUIS, AACSB and AMBA. IMB programme among world’s 100 best “Masters in Management” (FT 2018 ranking) Third best school in the Eastern Europe by the Eduniversal. 12 specialisations in the University Degree Programme, 18 Bologna masters program (10 in English) and Doctoral Programme in Economics and Business 4,700 FELU students 1,900 international students: Prominent international professors from respected universities around the globe. More than 210 international agreements with partner institutions from 60 different countries. One of the most popular summer schools in the area of economic and business in Europe Take the Best from East & West The Confucius Institute at the FELU is the only business institute in this part of Europe. Research: Over the last 4 years, our faculty has published more than 500 papers in international scientific journals. Citations: over 2300 citations in 2017 Among top-3 in the world in the research on Business Processes Management Systems research. Supply chain and logistics program is second in Central and Eastern Europe and among top-50 in the world. Our school is among the top-3 in the world in contributing to research on integrating big data with the business process. Two of the papers from our department are among the top-5 most influential in research connecting big data and supply chain management Top 100 in the Information Science category in the 2017 Shangai (ARWU) rankings More info about the School: and the presentation of our department.
- 3. Inspiration for this lecture My LinkedIn posts; summary at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/summary-my-linkedin-posts- peter-trkman/ and the talk of Tim Minchin available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoEezZD71sc „You might find some of this stuff inspiring, you will find some of it boring, and you will definitely forget all of it within a week. „
- 4. Contribution of my research – summary Business process management: the theoretical basis for BPM enhanced by developing 10 basic principles + several studies of BPM and IS development in practice including improved understanding of customers‘ processes Supply Chain Management: optimizing supply chains, measuring the benefits achieved and the risks arising therefrom (including the knowledge and perception of top management). Technology adoption: adoption and impact of various concepts and technologies such as broadband, telemedicine, e-government and social media Business analytics: analyzing the impact of business analytics in supply chain using information support and process orientation as mediators + several cases of analytics use in practice. Business models: a theoretical basis for a business model (both in a single company and supply chains based on the resource based view and transaction costs economics along with the analysis of how technological progress affects business model innovation My research papers: https://scholar.google.si/citations?user=nT2RSqwAAAAJ
- 5. Let‘s get it done - bibliometrics Points for international recognition. Required: 20 My number: 1689.5 Number of papers in JCR journals Required: 5 My number: 38
- 6. Teaching and research Unfortunately many university professors consider teaching as an unneeded chore; something to do with minimum effort. On the other side of the spectrum many perceive research as not having much purpose. The worst outcome of this line of thinking can be that smart professors only do research charismatic professors teach in executive programs and the rest do most of the undergraduate teaching. My take: if my research work does not importantly improve my teaching to undergraduate or master students that research is a waste of time(regardless of how many citations it brings or awards the paper receives). https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/business-models-using-my-research-teaching- peter-trkman/
- 7. Motivation Many (including my wife friends and colleagues) have asked: why are you doing this? It takes up a lot of time it is not part of my ‘official duties’ and does not help with regard to my promotion job or salary. It’s simply because I love doing it. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-motivation-writing-linkedin- posts-peter-trkman/
- 8. 3. „Remember it‘s all luck“ I had the luck of meeting the right people at the right time throughout my childhood, studies and FELU career. „Understanding that you can’t truly take credit for your successes, nor truly blame others for their failures will humble you and make you more compassionate.“
- 9. 1. You don‘t have to have a dream Graveyard is full of visionaries (Janez Drnovsek, ex-prime minister and president of Slovenia; FELU graduate) „Believe in passionate dedication to the pursuit of short-term goals“
- 10. 6. Be a teacher. „Please be a teacher. Teachers are the most admirable and important people in the world“ „Share your ideas“ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/students-evaluations-my-course-peter-trkman/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/teaching-china-peter-trkman https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/e-business-models-korea-peter-trkman https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/business-models-using-my-research-teaching-peter-trkman https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/teaching-universidad-de-los-andes-peter-trkman
- 11. What I will do from now on?: 9. Don’t Rush. „You don‘t have to know what to do“ „Life will sometimes seem long and tough and, god, it’s tiring. And you will sometimes be happy and sometimes sad. And then you’ll be old. And then you’ll be dead.“ „Most people I know who were sure of their career path at 20 are having midlife crises now.“
- 12. Concluding thought And then there are business models, business process management, supply chain management, UTAUT, telemedicine, knowledge risks, production costs, digital transformation, technology adoption, intersubjective reality, information sharing theory, information processing theory, absorptive capacity, dynamic capabilities, risk management, SOA, actor-network theory, disruptive innovation, cutting stock problem, broadband diffusion, resource based view, e- procurement, e-government, wikis, task technology fit, knowledge management, business analytics, frameworks and e-health But you know all of those things already! And if you don‘t, here is the summary: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/summary-my-linkedin-posts-peter- trkman/ So it‘s time for some champagne.
- 13. Acknowledgment To my family: My parents [will add names] – without them I would not be here My wife [will add name]- who always stood by me in good and bad My kids [will add names] - without them I would still be here…but would it matter?
- 14. Acknowledgment (2) To the co-authors of all of my papers. I‘ve learnt a lot from each one of you. Thank you (43 co-authors listed in alphabetical order. Data from Scopus on Sep 25 2018) Budler M Cimperman M DaSilva CM De Oliveira M Deschoolmeester D Desouza KC Erjavec J Gemmel P Gradišar M Groznik A Henfridsson O Huber T Indihar Štemberger M Jaklič J Jerman Blažič B Klun M Kovačič A Krasnova H Ladeira MB Lindič J Makovec Brenčič M Manfreda A McCormack K Mendling J Mertens W Popovič A Recker J Riemenschneider C Schäfer K Schmiedel T Stanonik MDL Svetina M Škrinjar R Trkman M Turk T van den Bergh J Viaene S Vlahovic N vom Brocke J Vuksic VB Willaert P Willems J Zaheer N
Editor's Notes
- #2: Title: the purpose of the speech is to also discuss new challenges after the promotion to the permanent/highest possible title at the university level. Subtitle: paraphrase of the Douglas Adams novel to emphasize that nowadays information systems & supply chains matter for all companies and all researchers regardless of their main field.
- #3: This slide will not be part of the lecture but is included in the presentation to impress the international audience
- #4: I kind of hate this kind of formal lectures with „tell us what you have done so then you can die in peace and we can drink champagne). So I‘ve tried to make the whole event slightly more interesting. Feel free to browse through my LinkedIn posts. The talk of Tim Minchin is also well worth your time, I fully agree with many of its statements.
- #6: I never use automatic fly-in in my slides. This is a single exception in an attempt to both get a quick pace going (don‘t forget, people hardly wait for those formal lectures to end) and to impress the audience.
- #7: Important slide: on connection of teaching and research. The „Why I teach this course“ is a screenshot from the sylabus of one of my courses.
- #9: I had the luck of meeting the right people at the right time
- #13: But before the champagne, the most important part
- #14: But before the end, time for the most important part.