Prof. Dr. Jan vom Brocke
Professor

Chair of Information Systems and Business Process Management (Prof. vom Brocke)

Leonardo Campus 3
48149 Münster


Room: 133

Phone: +49 251 83-38101
jan.vom.brocke@uni-muenster.de

Consultation hours:

On appointment

Jan vom Brocke is the Chair of Information Systems & Business Process Management at the University of Münster and a Director of ERCIS – The European Research Center for Information Systems. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Liechtenstein and has been named a Fellow of the AIS, an Academic Research Fellow at MIT Center for Information Systems Research, a Fellow of the ESCP Center for Design Science in Entrepreneurship, a Schoeller Senior Fellow at Friedrich Alexander University (FAU), and a Distinguished Professor at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

He has published in top journals, among others, Management Science, Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ), Information Systems Research (ISR), Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), Journal of Information Technology (JIT), Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), European Journal of Information System (EJIS), Information Systems Journal (ISJ), Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS), Communications of the ACM (CACM), and MIT Sloan Management Review (SMR).

Jan vom Brocke has published many seminal BPM books, including the International Handbook of Business Process Management, Green Business Process Management as well as the comprehensive Business Process Management Cases collection. He has teaching experience from many of the Financial Times Top ranked Business Schools, such as the University of St.Gallen in Switzerland and the Smurfit School of Business in Ireland and actively supports the development of regions with institutional barriers, e.g. through his involvement in the AAU IS PhD program in Ethiopia, Africa.

Professor vom Brocke is an invited speaker and serves as trusted advisor to many companies as well as governmental institutions across Europe.

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  • Awards

    Recipient of the 2025 AIS Senior Scholar Best IS Publication Award for the paper “How Audi Scales Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing“ 2025
    Awarded by: MIS Quarterly Executive
    Award given to: vom Brocke, Jan; Sagodi, André; van Giffen, Benjamin; Schniertshauer, Johannes; Niehues, Klemens
    Announced at: 15.12.2025 | Date of awarding: 15.12.2025
    Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
    Recipient of the ‘Trailblazing Research Award 2025’ for the article "Regulating Emerging Technologies: Prospective Sensemaking through Abstraction and Elaboration" 2025
    Awarded by: as part of the annual awards for the podcast ‘this IS research’, presented by Nick Berente and Jan Recker
    Award given to: vom Brocke, Jan; Seidel, Stefan; Frick, Christoph J.
    Announced at: 17.12.2025 | Date of awarding: 17.12.2025
    Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
    FB4-Research award 2025
    Awarded by: School of Business and Economics of the University of Münster
    Award given to: vom Brocke, Jan
    Announced at: 16.09.2025 | Date of awarding: 12.11.2025
    Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
    Best Teaching Award 2025
    Awarded by: Student Association of the School of Business and Economics (University of Muenster)
    Award given to: Mara Burger; Jan vom Brocke
    Announced at: 28.11.2025 | Date of awarding: 28.11.2025
    Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
    Named in the Stanford List of World`s Top 2% Scientists 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 (positioned in the top 0.5% in the career-long database and the top 0.1% in the last year dataset across all fields of science. 2025
    Awarded by: Stanford University
    Award given to: vom Brocke, Jan
    Announced at: 19.09.2025 | Date of awarding: 19.09.2025
    Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
    Named Academic Research Fellow at the MIT Center for Information Systems Research 2025 in the category: Academic Membership / Research Affiliation
    Awarded by: MIT Center for Information Systems Research
    Award given to: vom Brocke, Jan
    Announced at: 01.01.2025 | Date of awarding: 01.01.2025
    Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
    Nominated for: Recognized JIT Paper of the Year Award 2025 runner up for the paper “Generating Impactful Situated Explanations Through Digital Trace Data“ 2025 (2nd prize)
    Awarded by: Journal of Information Technology, 39(1), 2-18.
    Award given to: vom Brocke, J; Grisold, T.; Kremser, W.; Mendling, J.; Wurm, B
    Announced at: 01.01.2025
    Type of distinction: Nomination for an award or distinction
    Repeatedly ranked in *Wirtschaftswoche*’s list of the best management professors (Top 25), 2018, 2020, 2022, 2025 2024
    Awarded by: Business magazine ‘Wirtschaftswoche’
    Award given to: vom Brocke, Jan
    Announced at: 01.01.2024 | Date of awarding: 01.01.2024
    Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
    Named an Honorary Distinguished Professor at the National University of Ireland 2023
    Awarded by: Maynooth University (MU)
    Award given to: vom Brocke, Jan
    Announced at: 01.01.2023 | Date of awarding: 01.01.2023
    Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction