Information on individual educational components (ECTS-Course descriptions) per semester

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The content of this introductory course in the field of business covers the development and presentation of economic fundamentals, digital business models, market-related and supporting functions within the company, and the automation of business processes.

Subject and Methodological Competence (F/M)

Students know the basic economic content (e.g., legal forms, corporate goals, and corporate environment) and business processes and can name the basic organizational contexts (e.g., organizational structure and process organization), which is a necessary foundation for later linking with information technology in companies and organizations. They can derive the development up to digital business models and collaborate with non-specialist areas.

This course contributes to the following interdisciplinary competencies:

Social and Communication Competence (S/K)

• Leadership competence: Ability to lead teams
• Intercultural competence: Knowing and appreciating prevailing differences in various cultures
• Conflict management: Constructively dealing with different perspectives and interests, recognizing causes in conflict situations, and developing solutions
• Negotiation and conversation skills: Confidently and competently representing one’s own or the team’s interests in negotiations

Self-Competence (S)

• Self-reflection ability: Knowing one’s own abilities and limits and reflecting on one’s actions
• Learning competence and motivation: Ability and willingness to independently acquire new knowledge and learn from successes and failures
• Adaptability: Being able to adapt to changing conditions and handle varying situations
• Decision-making ability: Knowing one’s decision-making scope and associated responsibilities, gathering 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 one’s decisions and actions for oneself and others and to form an independent judgment
• Ethical competence: Ability to perceive a situation as ethically significant, formulate normative behavioral rules, and justify them
• Initiative: Willingness to commit and engage
• Entrepreneurial competence: Ability to understand and think and act entrepreneurially
• Expressiveness: Ability to express oneself clearly and understandably in both spoken and written language, and to choose words appropriately for the situation

Transfer Competence (T)

• Analytical and presentation/communication skills: Ability to quickly grasp and organize extensive and complex contexts, filter out the essentials, and present them in an understandable manner
• Judgment and problem-solving ability: Ability to assess situations and derive consequences and solutions
• Customer orientation: Ability to recognize and appropriately address the needs of customers, partners, etc., in terms of service and quality
• Organizational ability: Ability to translate goals into work tasks and optimally utilize available resources

Integrated course: Units for everyone on theory combined with current examples from business practice. Practical examples based on case studies in the seminars. Presentation of solutions by the students, feedback on the solutions. Attendance is mandatory in the seminar.

Homework 15% und final exam 85%.

For a positive grade, a minimum of 50% of the possible points must be achieved across all parts of the examination.

Not applicable

• 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.

On-site course - Attendance in the seminar is mandatory.