| Prerequisites and co-requisites |
None |
| Course content |
Contents of this introductory course in the field of economics form the development and representation of the economic basics up to the digital business models and organizational functions regarding market performance and support in the enterprise up to the automation of the business processes. |
| Learning outcomes |
Technical and methodological competence (F / M)
- The students know the basic economic content (e.g. legal forms, corporate goals and corporate environment) and business processes and can name the basic organizational relationships (e.g. structure and process organization), which is a necessary basis for the later connection with information technology in represents the companies and organizations.
- From this they can derive the development up to the digital business models and carry out the cooperation with non-specialist areas.
This course provides a contribution to the following general skills:
Social and communicative competence (S / K)
- Leadership Skills: Ability to lead teams
- Intercultural competence: Knowing the prevailing differences in different cultures and learning to appreciate them
- Conflict management: dealing constructively with different perspectives and interests, recognizing the causes in conflict situations and developing solutions
- Ability to negotiate and conduct discussions: Be confident and confident in negotiations and represent your own interests and those of the team well
Self-competence (S)
- Self-reflection ability: Knowing your own abilities and limits and reflecting on your own actions
- Learning competence and motivation: Ability and willingness to acquire new knowledge independently and to learn from successes and failures
- Adaptability: Engaging in changing conditions and being able to deal with changing situations
- Ability to make decisions: Knowing your own freedom of decision and the associated responsibility as well as obtaining the necessary information, developing alternatives, setting priorities and finding a solution in a reasonable time
- Willingness to take responsibility: Ability and willingness to assess the consequences of your own decisions and actions for yourself and others and to form an independent judgment
- Ethical competence: Ability to perceive a fact or situation as ethically significant, to formulate normative rules of conduct and to justify them
- Initiative: willingness to commit and get involved
- Entrepreneurial competence: Ability to understand entrepreneurial decisions and to think and act entrepreneurially
- Expressiveness: Ability to express and understand expressions and written language as well as a choice of words appropriate to the situation
Transfer Competence (T)
- Ability to analyze and present / communicate: Ability to grasp and arrange extensive and complex relationships in a short time, to filter out the essentials and to present them in a way that is easy to understand
- Assessment and problem-solving ability: assessing facts and being able to use them to derive consequences and approaches
- Customer orientation: Recognize the needs of customers, partners, etc. and address them appropriately in terms of service and quality
- Organizational skills: Be able to implement goals in work tasks and make optimal use of the available resources
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| Planned learning activities and teaching methods |
Integrated lectures and seminars. Theory units for the whole group in connection with current examples from enterprises. Practical examples based on case studies in the group seminars. Presentation of the solutions by the students. Attendance in the seminar is mandatory. |
| Assessment methods and criteria |
Homework and final exam. |
| Comment |
Not applicable |
| Recommended or required reading |
Scheer, August-Wilhelm (2019): Unternehmung 4.0: Vom disruptiven Geschäftsmodell zur Automatisierung der Geschäftsprozesse. 3., neu g. Aufl. 2020. Springer Vieweg.
Jaekel, Michael (2016): Die Anatomie digitaler Geschäftsmodelle. 1. Aufl. 2015. Wiesbaden: Springer Vieweg.
Thommen, Jean-Paul et al. (2020): Allgemeine Betriebswirtschaftslehre: Umfassende Einführung aus managementorientierter Sicht. 9., vollst. überarb. Aufl. 2020. S.l.: Springer Gabler.
Reichart, Markus; Wilms, Falko E. P.; Lehner, Martin (2002): Prozessmanagement mit System. 1. Aufl. Berlin: wvb - Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin.
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| Mode of delivery (face-to-face, distance learning) |
Classroom teaching - Attendance in the seminar is mandatory. |