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Business Analysis (B-KUL-D0I68A)

6 ECTSEnglish40 First termCannot be taken as part of an examination contract
De Weerdt Jochen
OC Handelsingenieur en Handelsingenieur in de beleidsinformatica FEB Campus Leuven

Aims

After completing this course, the student is able to:
 

Part I

  • apply methods and techniques relevant in the different stages of buiness analysis, including techniques for planning and monitoring
  • model, optimize and improve business processes, rules and data in a business context by applying methods and techniques of business process/rule/data modeling and management
  • analyze information problems in a professional manner and design solutions with attention to professional ethics (correctness, reliability)
  • design in an independent and critical way an innovative solution for a relevant information problem in an organization

Part II

  • understand how to use control-flow and resource constructs to model business processes, using different notations such as Petri nets, BPMN, EPCs, etc.
  • translate process descriptions into process models using business process modelling software
  • understand the essential concepts of process verification and validation
  • analyse process using both qualitative and quantitative techniques
  • understand which factors are important to improve and automate processes
  • identify and argue about process improvements
  • understand the workings of process mining techniques and how these can be used to analyse processes, including process discovery, compliance and performance analysis
  • analyse process data using process mining techniques

Previous knowledge

The student should have finished an introduction to business information systems and an introduction to ICT. In particular, at the start of this course the student:

knows about the basic concepts of computer systems and software,

  • has basic knowledge of structured programming
  • understands the basics of business information systems,
  • understands the role and application of information systems and enterprise architecture in an organisation,
  • has basic knowledge of data modelling (ER or UML) and of process modelling with BPMN.

This conforms to what is taught in courses such as D0T06A of D0H17A "Introductory Management Informatics" and as D0T12A "Management Information Systems" of D0H27A “Business Information Systems”.

Identical courses

This course is identical to the following courses:
D0I81A : Business analyse
HMI01A : Business Analysis (No longer offered this academic year)

Is included in these courses of study

Activities

3 ects. Enterprise Analysis (B-KUL-D0I68a)

3 ECTSEnglishFormat: Lecture20 First term
De Weerdt Jochen
OC Handelsingenieur en Handelsingenieur in de beleidsinformatica FEB Campus Leuven

Content

The contents of the course closely match the domain Business Analysis, as indicated in the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK ® 2.0). That covers these "knowledge areas": Business analysis planning and monitoring, Requirements elicitation, Requirements management and communication, Enterprise analysis, Requirements analysis, Solution assessment and validation.

Contents:

  • Business Analysis: Information strategy, information management, decision management, process management
  • BABOK knowledge areas and techniques
  • Requirements Engineering and Business modeling
  • Business rules management, Business decision management, Decision modeling
  • Declarative process modeling
  • Project management

Course material

  • Slides,exercices and extra papers are made available via Toledo.
  • Toledo is being used for this learning activity.

Format: more information

There are no separate seminars: exercises are worked on during the lectures. In addition to the lectures, students must perform assignments independently.

3 ects. Business Process Management (B-KUL-D0I89a)

3 ECTSEnglishFormat: Lecture20 First term
De Weerdt Jochen
OC Handelsingenieur en Handelsingenieur in de beleidsinformatica FEB Campus Leuven

Content

Business Process Management

  • Process modeling
  • Process verification & validation
  • Process automation
  • Quantitative process analysis – Process simulation
  • Process redesign
  • Process mining

Course material

• Course material
* Dumas, M., La Rosa, M., Mendling, J., Reijers, H. (2018) Fundamentals of Business Process Management, Second Edition, Springer
* van der Aalst, W. (2016) Process Mining – Data Science in Action, Second Edition, Springer

• Toledo
Toledo is used in this course Toledo

Format: more information

There are no separate seminars: exercises are worked on during the lectures. In addition to the lectures, students must perform assignments independently.

Evaluation

Evaluation: Business Analysis (B-KUL-D2I68a)

Type : Partial or continuous assessment with (final) exam during the examination period
Description of evaluation : Written, Paper/Project
Type of questions : Multiple choice
Learning material : None

Explanation


Evaluation caracteristics

  • The evaluation consists of a written multiple choice exam and one assignment.
  • A correction for guessing is applied to the multiple choice exam.
  • Deadlines are communicated via Toledo.    

 

Determination final result

  • The exam is assessed by the titular, as announced on Toledo and the exam regulations.
  • The final result is calculated and expressed with a whole number on 20.
  • The assignment is assessed on 6 out of 20 marks, the exam on the remaining 14 out of 20 marks.
  • The score of the assignment cannot be used to compensate for a severe deficiency on the exam. If the score of the exam does not surpass 5.6/14 (without rounding), the assignment will not count and the score on the exam will be rescaled to a score out of 20.

 

Information about retaking exams

  • The student has got the chance to take the exam twice per academic year: a first time in the first or second examination period, depending on the semester in which the course is programmed, and a second time in the third examination period.
  • The evaluation properties of the second examination opportunity are equal to those of the first examination opportunity.
  • The score for the assignment is automatically transferred to the second examination opportunity. Only in exceptional circumstances (e.g. long-term illness), the student can request to hand in a new assignment.
  • The attributed score in the second examination opportunity is weighed in the same way as in the first examination opportunity.