The slides for the lecture before promotion to full professor for information systems management at triple crown accredited FELU - business school in Slovenia, Central Europe.

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
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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