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Business Process Management
Postgraduate | SWI-INF80028 | 2019
Course information for 2019 intake
Follow best practice to streamline business processes using lean methods. Boost performance for competitive advantage.Integrate and align a variety of external business functions with technology. Drive process automation to build capacity.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- -
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Business Process Management
About this subject
Students who successfully complete this subject will be able to:
- Critically analyse the concept of business process(es), their value, improvement, re-engineering and workflow
- Apply coherent and advanced knowledge to the role of technologies and business process management in diverse contexts and applications using critical thinking
- Apply business process fundamentals to the analysis, design and modelling of business processes
- Apply problem solving, design and decision making methodologies to identify and provide innovative solutions to complex business process management problems with intellectual independence
- Communicate proficiently in professional practice to a variety of audiences and function as an effective member or leader of a diverse team and use the basic tools and practices of business process management within project work.
- Business Process Elements, Notation
- Introduction to Business Process Management and relationship to organizational strategic goals and objectives
- Organizational Concepts, Business Process Management approaches and methodologies
- Business Process Modelling & Redesign
- Resources Allocation and capacity, Performance Analysis
- BPM Technologies, BPMS and Business Process Automation
- Business Process Design Best Practices, Lean Methodology and Improvement
- Business Process Architecture and Value creation
- Change Management, Quality, Six Sigma and the Future of BPM
This subject outlines the key concepts of business process management and modelling, its importance to an organisation, and how these support business activities. This also includes integration with a wide range of functions involving other organisations such as occurs in supply-chain management. The perspectives taken are that technology should align with strategic management objectives and cultural practices and also that business process analysis and design is a means of providing significant opportunities for innovation and performance advantage over competitors.
- Assignment 1 - Individual (20-30%)
- Assignment 2 — Group (20-40%)
- Assignment 3 - Individual (20-30%)
- Test — Individual (20-30%)
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Entry requirements
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Prior study
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Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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