After successful completion of the course, students are able to...

• explain the strategic importance of sytemantic business process management (BPM)
• describe BPM core concepts
• distinguish phases of the process management life cycle
• model business processes
• explain strengths and limitations of various modelling techniques
• analyze the performance of existing business processes, diagnose issues, and identify potential for process improvement
• compare radical and incremental approaches to improve business processes
• design new and improve existing processes.

Motivation and foundations of Business Process Management, strategic relevance, BPM lifecycle, modeling techniques, Petri-nets, EPCs, BPMN, process analysis, improvement and reengineering.

Students will choose a real business process to explore and capture the characteristics and goals of process modeling and to represent the same business process by applying multiple modeling techniques.

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Preliminary Discussion (Vorbesprechung)

• The first session will cover organization and modalities.
• Tuesday, 7.03.2023, 09:00-11:00, El5

Written and oral

The course consists of lectures, exercises, and two tests. There are 3 assignments to be completed in groupd of 3-4.

Estimated effort:

   9 h Lecture
 46 h Exercieses (8+8+30h)
1,5 h Preparation for review meetings and presentations
1,5 h Review meetings/presentations
 40 h Test preparation (2 Tests x 2,5 days)
  2  h Tests (2 Tests x 1h)
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100 h = 4 ECTS