This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Perspectives in
Business Informatics Research BIR 2017 held in Copenhagen Denmark in August 2017. This year
the BIR conference attracted 59 submissions from 23 countries. They were reviewed by 45 members
of the Program Committee and as a result 17 full papers and 3 short papers were selected for
presentation at the conference and publication in this volume. They are organized in sections
on enterprise architecture business process management business analytics information
systems applications and information systems development. In addition the summaries of the
two conference keynotes are also included. This year the conference theme was the digital
transformation which will impact most businesses organizations and societies and call for new
and radical approaches to how we adopt use and manage IT.
