Open S-BPM = Open Innovation

Open S-BPM serves organizations and their networks, facilitating Business Process Management (BPM), and thus, collaboration, development and effective practices to that respect. Founded in 2012, the initiative encourages community-building between academic institutions, non-profit and commercial organizations. It provides its members, interested individuals and bodies with an open S-BPM framework within which S-BPM projects can flourish. Open S-BPM promotes the standardization of Subject-Oriented Business Process Management, interfaces to and alignment with existing paradigms and approaches to BPM, and the wider adoption of community-content and open standard approaches to BPM within higher education. The initiative is hosted by I2PM, the Institute of Innovative Process Management. Its members coordinate software development and distribution activities for the community, and assure the coherence of S-BPM developments. We report on the current state of affairs, and outline future activities towards protecting intellectual property and tracking contributions.