Core Modules

Almost all business processes have become IT reliant, if not fully automated. With the advancement of digitalization, information systems gain increasing strategic relevance for enterprises. This module deals with the ongoing alignment of business and IT during business transformations on all levels of the enterprise: business model, strategy, organization and processes, applications and IT infrastructure.
In order to deal with complexity and change, modeling is identified as a core competence for business analysis and business design. In a collateral project, the students apply the learned approaches in a real-world setting.

Business Intelligence is concerned with supporting business decisions with facts or, put another way, with helping business actors in turning data into knowledge that helps to make the right decisions. The module looks at different kinds of decisions (and hence requirements), at different kinds of data and different kinds of tools required to distill knowledge out of data. Students learn to model problems for correct data extraction, design meaningful reports, build predictive models and text mining applications.

As a holistic approach, business process management (BPM) covers various factors including strategic alignment, governance, lean management, modeling, people, and culture for operating, improving, and innovating business processes. The course introduces fundamental frameworks, models, and methods in BPM and applies them to real-world cases.

On the one hand, the digital age opens a wide range of new business opportunities. On the other hand, we recognize that the existing management concepts have their origins in the industrial age and are hardly suitable for leading companies into the digital age. Therefore, this module provides new concepts for innovative and responsible managers to face the networked and dynamic digital age.