Information on individual educational components (ECTS-Course descriptions) per semester | |
| Degree programme: | Bachelor International Business Administration Part-time |
| Type of degree: | FH Bachelor´s Degree Programme |
| Part-time | |
| Summer Semester 2025 | |
| Course unit title | Introduction to Business Process Management |
| Course unit code | 025008021402 |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Type of course unit (compulsory, optional) | Compulsory |
| Semester when the course unit is delivered | Summer Semester 2025 |
| Teaching hours per week | 1 |
| Year of study | 2025 |
| Level of course unit (e.g. first, second or third cycle) | First Cycle (Bachelor) |
| Number of ECTS credits allocated | 2 |
| Name of lecturer(s) | Julia SCHNEIDER Falko E. P. WILMS |
| Prerequisites and co-requisites |
None |
| Course content |
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| Learning outcomes |
The course conveys the process-oriented perspective on a company. It deals with how business processes are organised, optimised, controlled and managed. The focus is on the individual primary and secondary business processes of a company and their interaction. In addition, the course gives a first introduction to process optimisation, process controlling and process management. The students can describe a company from a process-oriented perspective and list its business processes. They can name and present the tasks of business process management and list the most important methods of process optimisation and explain their approach. They can explain how business processes are organised, optimised, controlled and managed. The students can recognise and comprehend interrelationships, interactions and interfaces between business processes. They can define and delimit the business processes of a company in an end-to-end understanding and are able to structure the individual business processes and describe them at different levels of detail. They can define parameters that are measured, monitored and controlled for a business process. |
| Planned learning activities and teaching methods |
Interactive course with lecture, case studies, exercises in individual and group work, presentations and homework. |
| Assessment methods and criteria |
Part time: Case Study full time: written exam 90 min |
| Comment |
None |
| Recommended or required reading |
Gadatsch, Andreas (2020): Grundkurs Geschäftsprozess-Management: Analyse, Modellierung, Optimierung und Controlling von Prozessen. 9. Aufl. Wiesbaden: Springer Vieweg. Schmelzer, Hermann J.; Sesselmann, Wolfgang (2020): Geschäftsprozessmanagement in der Praxis. Kunden zufriedenstellen, Produktivität steigern, Wert erhöhen. 8. Auflage. München: Hanser. |
| Mode of delivery (face-to-face, distance learning) |
Classes with compulsory attendance in individual teaching units (seminars) supplemented by asynchronous teaching units for the presentation of elementary basics, which are assumed as given knowledge |
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