Franken received his MA in Electrical Engineering in 1990 from the University of Twente. 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, where from 1996 to 2001 he participated in the Testbed research project to develop a virtual test environment for business processes.[3] In 2001 he founded BiZZdesign with Harmen van den Berg and Harm Bakker[4] 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 modeling languages.
Selected publications
Books:
1994. Control system design for walking neuroprostheses. Thesis University of Twente.
1996. On engineering support for business process modelling and redesign. Enschede : Centre for Telematics and Information Technology
2005. Business Process Management (BPM) : procesinzicht en procesverbetering. With Martijn J. Tolsma. Enschede : BiZZdesign.
^Eertink, Henk, et al. "A business process design language." FM’99—Formal Methods. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1999. 76-95.
^Steen, M. W., Lankhorst, M. M., & van de Wetering, R. G. (2002). "Modelling networked enterprises." In Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, 2002. EDOC'02. Proceedings. Sixth International (pp. 109-119). IEEE.
^Franken, Henry M., and Wil Janssen. "Get a grip on changing business processes." Knowledge and process management 5.4 (1998): 208-215.
^Henry Franken, Harmen van den Berg (2008) Handboek Business Process Engineering
