My presentation for Erasmus+ International Staff Week, 8 - 12 April 2019. It includes the presentation of the teaching at Academic unit for business informatics and logistics; the presentation of my past research and - most important for the audience - some of the things I have learnt as a guest professor at various universities around the world. As always, the presentation is not entirely self-explanatory. If you want to learn more: peter.trkman@ef.uni-lj.si

1. 1. Business Process Management in
Organisations and Supply Chains
2. Cultural Differences in Business Education -
What I have Learnt So Far
Erasmus+ International Staff Week 2019
April, 10 2019 Peter Trkman Ph. D.
full professor

2. Content of my presentation
• Presentation of Academic unit for Informatics and Logistics
• Presentation of my research/teaching
• Cultural differences – what I learnt so far

3. Academic Unit for Business Informatics
and Logistics

4. Research & Teaching Topics
Main areas:
• Business Intelligence & Analytics
• Business Process Management
• Information Systems Management & Strategy
• Optimization
• Supply Chain Management & Logistics
• Technology Adoption
Focused on inter-disciplinary research, combining qualitative and
quantitative methods with high impact on theoretical advances and
solutions for digitised world.

5. Academic unit members

6. Teaching - focus
• Good theoretical knowledge & hands-on skills
• Innovative ways of teaching
• Opportunity to work in consulting projects
• Many guests lectures from practitioners
• Opportunities for international exchange:
1 Double Degree programme and 1 in preparation
Sample courses:
• Electronic business
• Business intelligence and analytics
• Business logistics
• Business process management
• Digital business
• Economics of IT
• IS systems analysis and design
• Logistics management
• Optimization in logistics

7. Business informatics
BUSINESS INFORMATICS is one of the key areas organizations
depend on for increasing effectiveness and efficiency of their
business as well as gaining competitive advantage.
Business informatics enables organizations to conduct business
transformation by employing digital technology for successful
business process and business model optimization.

8. Business logistics
• Business Logistics is an interdiscplinary programme with
renowned, award-winning lecturers and researchers from
different fields that have strong ties in research and business
community.
• International exchange opportunities, several guest lecturers
from business and prepares students for a wide array of
employment opportunities by using modern learning methods
(e.g. interactive games) in small groups.

9. About me
dr. PETER TRKMAN
I am a full professor of information
systems and supply chain management
at a triple-crown accredited business
school. I have a deliberately wide
portfolio of teaching, research and
consulting areas including digital
transformation, electronic business,
business models (innovation), supply
chain management and business
process management.
peter.trkman@ef.uni-lj.si
https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-trkman

10. My work - one sentence summary
How technology shapes businesses – from business models,
technology adoption and business process redesign to decision
support within the processes
(both within single companies, supply chains and public administration)

11. My work - 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

12. Research – let‘s get the bibliometrics
done
H-index (Scopus):19
(among top-3 researchers in
social sciences in Slovenia)

13. My Teaching - summary
Undergraduate
Introduction to Information Systems
Electronic Business
Business logistics
Graduate
Optimization in logistics
Digital Business
Ph. D
Theories in business research
How to get rejected in academic journals

14. Teaching to diverse audiences at SEB
„Please be a teacher. Teachers are the most
admirable and important people in the world“
„Share your ideas“ (Tim Minchin)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/business-models-using-my-research-teaching-peter-trkman

15. Teaching at SEB LU: Pushing students
out of their comfort zone
Utilize what they know already – learning from their cases
Learning from local (Slovenian) examples
Random groups for assignments
Edit a Wikipedia entry in your language (related to the course) -
first time in May 2019
Comments on LinkedIn + course evaluation
LinkedIn recommendations
Current students interviewing past students
Increased engagement + comments +Kahoot from students‘
assignments
Forthcoming Linkedin post: Breaking the walled garden of
education

16. Electronic business – learning from the
local examples

17. Teaching abroad – my trigger
Link: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/professor-your-lecture-
racist-peter-trkman/
Story from 2014

18. Teaching abroad – some stories
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/teaching-universidad-de-los-
andes-peter-trkman
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/visiting-indian-business-school-
general-experience-peter-trkman/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-teach-new-audiences-
peter-trkman
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/autonomous-vehicles-virtual-
tourism-technology-adoption-peter-trkman/

19. And finally: Cultural differences
I‘ve learnt a lot from each professional visit in the last 7
years (Brazil, China, S. Korea*, India, Liechtenstein*,
Colombia, Australia, Germany, Austria, Russia*, Dubai)
What were my most shocking experiences in the last 7
years in terms of:
1.Cultural differences?
2.The understanding of how (some) students feel in class?
* University of Liechtenstein
Kyungpook National University
St.Petersburg University, GSOM

20. Cultural differences
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cultural-differences-what-i-learned-literary-festival-peter-
trkman/

21. Difficulties of learning new things
What I learned while learning Chinese
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-i-learned-while-learning-
chinese-peter-trkman/

22. Concluding thought
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-youre-unhappy-peter-
trkman/

23. Contact
Peter Trkman
Email: peter.trkman@ef.uni-lj.si
Skype: peter.trkman
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter_Trkman2
https://scholar.google.si/citations?user=nT2RSqwAAAAJ
https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-trkman/