Hendrik Marinus (Henry) Franken (born 1966) is a retired Dutch
engineer
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control engineering
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, and business process management.
Biography
Franken received his MA in Electrical Engineering in 1990 from the
University of Twente
The University of Twente (Dutch: ''Universiteit Twente''; , abbr. ) is a public technical university located in Enschede, Netherlands.
The university has been placed in the top 170 universities in the world by multiple central ranking tables. I ...
. He specialized in systems and control engineering, and in 1994 received his PhD with a thesis entitled "Control system design for walking neuroprostheses."
After graduation Franken started as researcher at the
Telematica Instituut
Novay, formally known as the ''Telematica Instituut'' was a Dutch research institute in the field of information technology, founded in 1997, known for its development of ArchiMate. In 2009 the Telematica Instituut was reorganized and operated un ...
, where from 1996 to 2001 he participated in the Testbed research project to develop a virtual test environment for business processes. In 2001 he founded BiZZdesign with Harmen van den Berg and Harm BakkerHenry Franken, Harmen van den Berg (2008) ''Handboek Business Process Engineering'' In 2001 to 2003 he was also Enterprise architecture consultant for the ING Group. Since 2009 he chairs The Open Group ArchiMate Forum, a working group that guides the further development of the
ArchiMate
ArchiMate ( ; originally from Architecture-Animate) is an open and independent enterprise architecture modeling language to support the description, analysis and visualization of architecture within and across business domains
* Franken, H. M., Veltink, P. H., Tijsmans, R., Nijmeijer, H., & Boom, H. B. (1993). Identification of passive knee joint and shank dynamics in paraplegics using quadriceps stimulation " ''Rehabilitation Engineering, IEEE Transactions on'', 1(3), 154-164.
* Quartel, D. A., Pires, L. F., Van Sinderen, M. J., Franken, H. M., & Vissers, C. A. (1997). On the role of basic design concepts in behaviour structuring " ''Computer networks and ISDN systems'', 29(4), 413-436.
* Franken, Henry M., and Wil Janssen. "Get a grip on changing business processes." ''Knowledge and process management'' 5.4 (1998): 208-215.
* Franken, H. M., Bal, R., den van Berg, H., Janssen, W., & De Vos, H. (2000). Architectural design support for business process and business network engineering '' ''International Journal of Services Technology and Management'', 1(1), 1-14.