Oktay Turetken

Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
Information Systems Group
School of Industrial Engineering 
T: +31 40-247 2617
o.turetken at gmail.com 
o.turetken at tue.nl


Dr. Oktay Turetken is an academic member of the Information Systems Group in the School of Industrial Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology. He has a PhD degree in Information Systems from Middle East Technical University, Turkey. From 2008 until late 2012, he worked as a research fellow in the European Research Institute in Service Science at Tilburg University, where he participated in EU funded FP7 research projects on service science and business process management. From 2005 to 2008, he worked as a software and business process improvement consultant. Between 1999 and 2008, he participated in and led a number of software process improvement, enterprise resource planning system implementation, large-scale software intensive system specification and acquisition, and project & portfolio management system implementation projects. 
His research focuses on the interface between business models and business process management, including service engineering and process innovation; organisational process improvement through maturity models; practice of business process modelling & redesign including human factors; and agile approaches in software development.

Current research interests
--> BUSINESS MODEL ENGINEERING: 
Business Model Engineering (BME) involves the design, operationalization/implementation, monitoring & controlling, and evolution of business models. These major phases constitute the business model lifecycle. 
In my research, I take a networked, multi-stakeholder business environment as the context, and focus on service-dominant business models. A service-dominant business model represents the way in which a network of organizations –including the providers and customer, co-creates value for the customer through solution-oriented services, and generates revenue and benefits for all network partners. (This can be contrasted with a goods-dominant business model that has an output orientation view and emphasizes on how actors exchange output units.) 
My research centers around the two major phases of the business model lifecycle: design and operationalization/implementation. Particular topics of interest include: 
  • Design of service-dominant business models in a multi-stakeholder business environment. This involves the business model blueprint design, feasibility evaluation, and decision making as parts of the business model innovation process. Current sub-topics include: 
    • Evaluation of business models, i.e. the assessment of the financial and non-financial viability of (service-dominant) business models (with PhD student: Rick Gilsing)
    • Strategic decision making in business model engineering (with PhD student: Frank Berkers)
  • Operationalization/Implementation of service-dominant business models 
    • … using Business Process Management approaches (with PhD student: Bambang Suratno)
    • … through Business Services using Service Engineering approaches (with PhD student: O. Ege Adali)
In addition to the lifecycle phases, I also focus on the organizational context in which the business model engineering activities are performed. In particular, I work on: 
  • Relation between the business model engineering & innovation and organizational (process) maturity. 
    • Organizations only of high maturity can systematically manage and innovate new business (& process) models. Such organizations require capabilities related not only to the structured methods (such as those that we have been developing on the above-mentioned lifecycle phases) but also on process management, and relevant strategic, people and cultural factors. In this research topic, I investigate these capabilities and their relationships to provide guidance for organizations to attain them and achieve higher maturity levels.
We have been involved in a series of industry and research projects on this topic in the mobility, logistics, and services domains. 
Our recent works in this research area include: [ECIS 2017] [ConMob-2016] [PRO-VE 2015], [DITCM-2015], [PPA-2014], [BESTFACT-2016] 
Check: ResearchGate

-> Maturity Models in Business Process Management
Organisations need guidance on how to implement and establish process foundations, structures, and capabilities required to achieve higher product/service quality and lower operating costs. They also differ in terms of the type of guidance they require as they have a different level of process orientation. Maturity models are useful business tools for assessing organisational aspects such as processes, structures, people, and culture, and for providing guidance for their improvement. Without a clearly defined strategy for improvement, it is difficult to achieve consensus within an organisation on the priorities and order of improvement activities. This research area involves the development, application and evaluation of (process) maturity models in different business domains (e.g. in healthcare, finance, software development) - particularly empirical investigations of their effectiveness.   
- Our recent works in this research area include: [ECIS-2016], [IST-2016],  [ECIS-2015], [SEAA-2015], [ProCare-2015] 
Check: ResearchGate

-> Business Process Models: Quality and Human Aspects
Human aspects of BPM relate to the interaction, communication, collaboration, and cooperation among individuals and teams in organisations, and their perception of process models and other artefacts throughout the entire BPM lifecycle. As a key artefact in the BPM lifecycle, business process models constitute the basis for organisational improvement and the development of supporting information systems. They play a key role in facilitating communication among various stakeholders, hence, their understandability is important to achieve this purpose. The research in this area involves studies on the factors influencing the quality/understandability of process models, investigations into the process of process modelling including cognitive aspects.  
- Our recent works in this research area include: [IST-2017] [BPM-2016], [BPMS2-2016], [S-BPM-2015], [IEEE-CPSM-2014], [S-BPM-2013], [I&M-2011]

-> Agile approaches in Software Development & Requirements engineering
Our recent work in this research area include: [JSEP 2016]

-> Business process compliance
Compliance of business processes to regulations, laws and policies. 
- Our recent works in this research area include: [SoSym-2016], [IEEE Software - 2011]

Upcoming Events

- ECIS 2018: 25th European Conference on Information Systems,  June 2018, Guimarães, Portugal. 
- BPM 2018: Business Process Management Conference,  September 2018, Barcelona, Spain. 
- A-BPM 2018: Advancing Business Process Management in September 2018 Euromicro SEAA 2018.
- SABPM 2018: Sustainability Aware Business Process Management (in conjunction with BPM 2018), September, 2018, Barcelona, Spain.  
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Publications

Journal Publications
  • Dikici, A., Turetken, O., Demirors, O. (2017). "Factors Influencing the Understandability of Process Models: A Systematic Literature Review". Information and Software Technology (IST). (to appear) [Author Version], [DOI]. 
  • Tarhan, A., Turetken, O., Reijers, Hajo. (2016). “Business Process Maturity Models: A Systematic Literature Review”. Information and Software Technology (IST), Volume 75, July 2016, Pages 122–134 [Author Version]. DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2016.01.010 .
  • Turetken, O., Ondracek, J., IJsselsteijn, W.A. (2017). "Influential Characteristics of Enterprise Information System User Interfaces" Journal of Computer Information Systems (to appear) [Author Version]
  • Grefen, P.W.P.J. & Turetken, O. (2017). "Advanced business process management in networked E-business scenarios". International Journal of E-Business Research. 13(4). [DOI] 
  • Turetken, O., Stojanov, I., Trienekens, Jos J.M. (2016). "Assessing the Adoption Level of Scaled Agile Development: A Maturity Model for Scaled Agile Framework”. Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (JSEP), [Published version].
  • Elgammal, A., Turetken, O., van den Heuvel, W-J., Papazoglou, M. (2014). “Formalising and Applying Compliance Patterns for Business Process Compliance”. Software and System Modeling (SoSyM), Volume 15, Issue 1, pp 119–146; [Author Version]. DOI: 10.1007/s10270-014-0395-3. 
  • Elgammal, A., Turetken, O., van den Heuvel, W-J. (2012). “Using Patterns for the Analysis and Resolution of Compliance Violations”, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS), Vol.21, No.1 (2012) pg.31-54. dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0218843012400023
  • Turetken, O. & Demirors, O. (2008). “Process Modeling by Process Owners: A Decentralized Approach”. Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (formerly Software Process: Improvement and Practice). Vol.13, Iss.1, Wiley InterScience. dx.doi.org/10.1002/spip.365

 

Conference papers / Technical Reports
  • Turetken, O. and Grefen, P. (2017) "Designing Service-Dominant Business Models". European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2017). [Author's Version]
  • Turetken, O., Vanderfeesten, I., Claes, J. (2017) "Cognitive Style and Business Process Model Understanding". COGNISE - 5th International Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Information Systems Engineering. In Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops (CAiSE 2017). LNBIP. [Author's Version]
  • Turetken, O., Rompen, T., Vanderfeesten, I., Dikici, A., van Moll, J. (2016). “The effect of modularity representation and presentation medium on the understandability of business process models in BPMN”. Int. Conf. on Business Process Management (BPM 2016). [Author's Version].
  • Razavian, M., Turetken. O., Vanderfeesten, I. (2016). "When Cognitive Biases Lead to Business Process Management Issues". BPMS2 2016 – 9th Workshop on Social and Human Aspects of Business Process Management (In int. conf. on Business Process Management -BPM 2016). [Author's Version]. 
  • Schriek, M., Turetken, O., Kaymak, U. (2016). “A Maturity Model for Care Pathways”. European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2016), Paper: 127.  [Author's Version]. [Published version]
  • Grefen, P., Turetken, O., Traganos, K. den Hollander, A., Eshuis, R. (2015). “Creating Agility in Traffic Management by Collaborative Service-Dominant Business Engineering”. 16th IFIP Working Conf. on Virtual Enterprises (PRO-VE 2015), Pg 100-109. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-24141-8 [Author's Version].
  • Grefen, P., Turetken, O., Razavian, M. (2016). Awareness Initiative for Agile Business Models in the Dutch Mobility Sector: An Experience Report. BETA publication: working papers No. 505, Eindhoven University of Technology. DOI
  • Grefen, P., Turetken, O., Razavian, M. (2016). Toepassing van flexibele bedrijfsmodellen in de Nederlandse mobiliteitssector: rapport van een bewustwordingsinitiatief. ConnectingMobility. DOI
  • Turetken, O. & Grefen, P.W.P.J. (2016). Service-Dominant Business Modeling in Transport Logistics. BETA publication: working papers No. 496, Eindhoven University of Technology. DOI
  • Tarhan, A., Turetken, O., Reijers, Hajo. (2015). “Do Mature Business Processes Lead To Improved Performance? -- A Review of the Empirical Evidence”. European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2015). [Author's Version].
  • Stojanov, I., Turetken, O., Trienekens, Jos J.M. (2015). "A Maturity Model for Scaling Agile Development". 41st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2015). 
  • Tarhan, A., Turetken, O., Ilisu, F. (2015). "Business Process Maturity Assessment: State of the Art and Key Characteristics". 41st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2015) [Authors' version]. 
  • Tarhan, A., Turetken, O., van den Biggelaar, Frank J.H.M. (2015). "Assessing Healthcare Process Maturity: Challenges Of Using A Business Process Maturity Model". Process-oriented approach for patient-centered care delivery workshop (ProCare 2015) [Authors' version]. [Published version]
  • Hurk, H. v.d, Turetken, O., van Moll, Jan (2015). “Subject-Oriented Plural Method meets BPMN: A Case Study”, Subject Oriented Business Process Management (S-BPM ONE’15). Article No. 5, ACM.  [Author's version]  [Published version]
  • Dijkman, R.M., IJzendoorn, G. van, Turetken, O. & Vries, M. de (2015). The effect of exceptions in business processes. BETA publications: working papers No. 470, Eindhoven: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, 14 pp. [Published version]
  • Marcel van Sambeek, Frank Ophelders, Tjerk Bijlsma, Borgert van der Kluit, Oktay Türetken, Rik Eshuis, Kostas Traganos, Paul Grefen (2015). Towards an Architecture for Cooperative-Intelligent Transport System (C-ITS) Applications in the Netherlands. BETA publication: working papers No. 485, Eindhoven University of Technology. DOI
  • Traganos, K., Grefen, P.W.P.J., Hollander, A. den, Turetken, O. & Eshuis, H. (2015). Business model prototyping for intelligent transport systems: a service-dominant approach. BETA publication: working papers No. 469, Eindhoven University of Technology, 55 pp. [Published version]
  • Elgammal, A., Turetken, O. (2015). "Lifecycle Business Process Compliance Management: A Semantically-Enabled Framework". The International Conference on Cloud Computing (ICCC'15), IEEE. [Author's Version]  [Published version]
  • Elgammal, A., Sebahi, S., Turetken, O., Hacid, M.-S., Papazoglou, M.P. & Heuvel, W.J. van den (2014). Business Process Compliance Management: An Integrated Proactive approach. Proc. of the International Business Information Management Association Conference (24th IBIMA Conference), Milan, Italy 6-7 November 2014.  (pp. 764-781). ISBN: 9780986041938  [Author's Version]
  • Salmanoglu, M., Turetken, O., Demirors, O. (2014): 

    Exploration of a Method for COSMIC Size Prediction from S-BPM, S

    ubject-oriented Business Process Management (S-BPM) ONE 2014.     Communications in Computer and Information Science Volume 422, 2014, pp 55-66. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-06191-7_4. [Author's Version]
  • Turetken, O. (2013). Towards a Maintainability Model for Business Processes. 1st International Workshop on Communicating Business Process and Software Models (CPSM). IEEE, pp. 30–33 [Author's version]. 
  • Toka, D., Turetken, O. (2013). Accuracy of Contemporary Parametric Software Estimation Models: A Comparative Analysis. 39th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2013). IEEE, pp. 313–316. [Author's Version]
  • Turetken, O., Demirors, O. (2013). Business Process Modeling Pluralized, Subject-oriented Business Process Management (S-BPM) ONE 2013, CCIS 360, pp. 34–51, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg (Author's Version).
  • Dikici, A., Turetken, O., Demirors, O. (2012). A Case Study on Measuring Process Quality: Lessons Learned, Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2012), September 5-8, 2012, IEEE CPS, Cesme, Izmir, Turkey. [Author's version]
  • Elgammal, A., Turetken, O., Heuvel, W.J.A.M. van den, & Papazoglou, M. P (2010). Root-cause analysis of design-time compliance violations on the basis of property patterns. In P.P. Maglio et al. (Eds.): International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC) 2010, LNCS 6470, pp. 17–31, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 [Author Version]
  • Elgammal, A., Turetken, O., Heuvel, W.J.A.M. van den, & Papazoglou, M. P. (2010). Towards a comprehensive design-time compliance management: A roadmap. In Kalid S. Soliman (Ed.), Proceedings of the 15th International Business Information Management Conference (IBIMA 2010) (pp. 1480-1484). Egypt: IBIMA Publishing.
  • Elgammal, A., Turetken, O., Heuvel, W.J.A.M. van den, & Papazoglou, M. P. (2010). On the formal specification of regulatory compliance: A comprehensive analysis. International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2010) Workshops, LNCS 6568, pp. 27-38, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. [Author Version]
  • Schumm, D., Turetken, O., Kokash, N., Elgammal, A.F.S.A., Leymann, F., & Heuvel, W.J.A.M. van den (2010). Business process compliance through reusable units of compliant processes. In Int. Workshop on Engineering SOA and the Web (ESW '10) LNCS-6385 (pp. 325-337), Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
  • Elgammal, A., Turetken, O., Heuvel, W.J.A.M. van den, & Papazoglou, M. P. (2010). On the formal specification of business contracts and regulatory compliance. In A. Brogi (Ed.), Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Formal Languages and Analysis of Contract-Oriented Software (FLACOS '10) (pp. 33-36). Pisa, Italy: EPTCS.
  • Top, O.O., Demirors, O., Turetken, O. (2009) “Making functional similarity count for more reliable effort prediction models”. Int. Symposium on Computer and Inf. Sciences (ISCIS’09), IEEE, pp.504-512.
  • Turetken, O., Demirors, O., Gencel. C. (2008). “The Effect of Entity Generalization on Software Functional Sizing”. Product Focused SW Dev. & Process Improvement (PROFES’08), LNCS-5089, pp.105-116.
  • Turetken, O., Ozcan Top, O., Ozkan, B., Demirors, O. (2008). “The Impact of Individual Assumptions on Functional Size Measurement”.  IWSM / MetriKon / Mensura 2008, LNCS 5338, pp. 164–178. Springer.
  • Ozkan, B., Turetken, O. & Demirors, O. (2008). “Software Functional Size: For Cost Estimation and More”. European System & Software Process Improvement and Innovation (EuroSPI-2008), V.16, p. 59-69
  • Turetken, O. & Demirors, O. (2007). “An Approach for Decentralized Process Modeling”. LNCS 4470, pp. 195-207. International Conference on Software Process (ICSP2007), Minneapolis, USA)
  • Turetken, O. & Demirors, O. (2005). “Concurrent Software Process Modeling”. European System & Software Process Improvement and Innovation (EuroSPI 2005). Budapest, Hungary
  • Turetken, O., Su, O & Demirors, O. (2004). “Automating Software Requirements Generation from Business Process Models”. PRInciples of Software Engineering (PRISE'04). Buenos Aires, Argentina. [Paper]
  • Turetken, O. & Demirors, O. (2002). “Using Human Resource Management Suites To Exploit Team Process Improvement Models”. Proc. of Euromicro 2002, Software Process and Product Improvement. pp.382-388.

If you are interested with the papers and cannot access, you can contact me at o.turetken at gmail.com. 


Past Events 
- ECIS 2017: 25th European Conference on Information Systems,  June 05-10 2017, Guimarães, Portugal. 
- BPM 2017: Business Process Management Conference,  September 10-15, 2017, Barcelona, Spain. 
- A-BPM 2017: Advancing Business Process Management in September 2017 Euromicro SEAA 2017, Vienna, Austria.
- SABPM 2017: Sustainability Aware Business Process Management (in conjunction with BPM 2017), September 10-15, 2017, Barcelona, Spain.  
- S-BPM-ONE 2017: 9th Conference on Subject-oriented Business Process Management. March 30-31, 2017, Darmstadt, Germany
- BPM 2016: Business Process Management Conference.  September 18-22, 2016, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 
- ECIS 2016: 24th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2016),  June 12-15 2016, Istanbul, Turkey. 
- A-BPM: Advancing Business Process Management in Euromicro SEAA 2016, August 31 - September 2, Limassol, S.Cyprus.
- S-BPM-ONE 2016: 8th Conference on Subject-oriented Business Process Management. April 6-8, 2016, Erlangen, Germany.
- SEAA-2015: The Euromicro Conference series on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, August 26-28, 2015.
- PRO-VE'15: 16th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises. Albi, France, 5-7 October.
- ProCare 2015: Process-oriented approach for patient-centered care delivery (ProCare) workshop (@ Pervasive Health 2015), May 20th, 2015 in Istanbul, Turkey. 
- S-BPM-ONE 2015: 7th International Conference on Subject-oriented Business Process Management. April 23-24, 2015, Kiel, Germany

- SEAA 2013: Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications  (SEAA 2013), Santander, Spain, September 4-6, 2013. 
- CPSM 2013: IEEE International Workshop on Communicating Business Process and Software Models (CPSM 2013): Quality, Understandability, and Maintainability, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 22-28 September 2013.