FINA0061-1 : Enterprise Modeling and IT

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Study programmes 2012-2013

Last update : 19/05/2013

FINA0061-1

Enterprise Modeling and IT

Duration :

30h Th

Number of credits :

Master degree in Business Engineering, professional focus in Performance Management and Control, 1st year		5

Master degree in Business Engineering, professional focus in Performance Management and Control, 1st year		5

Master degree in Business Engineering, professional focus in Financial Engineering, 1st year		5

Master degree in Business Engineering, professional focus in Financial Engineering, 1st year		5

Master in Management Engineering, professional Focus, 1st year		5

Master in Management Engineering, professional Focus, 1st year		5

Master degree in Business Engineering, professional focus in Intrapreneurship, 1st year		5

Master degree in Business Engineering, professional focus in Intrapreneurship, 1st year		5

Master degree in Business Engineering, professional focus in Modelisation and Technologies, 1st year		5

Master degree in Business Engineering, professional focus in Modelisation and Technologies, 1st year		5

Master degree in Business Engineering, professional focus in Supply Chain Management, 1st year		5

Master degree in Business Engineering, professional focus in Supply Chain Management, 1st year		5

Master degree in Business Engineering, professional focusin Performance Management Systems, 1st year		5

Master degree in Business Engineering, professional focusin Performance Management Systems, 1st year		5

Lecturer :

Didier Van Caillie

Language(s) of instruction :

English language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the second semester

Course contents :

This course proposes an overview and an application of the main principles and the most usual techniques used to model how an organization is performing, independently from its form, and to build up an adequate Information System, allowing to guarantee its performance in a short-, middle- or long-term perspective. It focuses on the one hand on the modelling techniques used to represent an organisation and on the other hand on the elaboration and the audit of a performing Information System really adapted to the design of the organization. It is composed by 3 different complementary modules : - The first one is dedicated to the use of the "Value Chain Model" and to its key processes and activities to model an organization. A special focus is made on the interactions between the organization and its main clients, suppliers and controllers. -The second one is dedicated to the techniques used to model corporate information flows (either organizational, commercial, financial or strategic). A focus is put on the practical use of the "Signalling Approach" (an efficient information or signal is meaningful, credible, true and can not be manipulated) and on the use of an adequate software dedicated to flow modelling. - The third one is at least dedicated to the audit of this system in order to increase continuously the performance of the organisation in a total quality management perspective. The basic principles of Total Quality Management of the EFQM model are especially put into practice.

Learning outcomes of the course :

See above. Intended Learning Outcomes addressed by the courses :

Strengthening knowledge and understanding of basic management disciplines in order to use them to perform a rigorous analysis of a management situation and provide pertinent solutions
Gaining the knowledge and understanding of one of the following fields: supply chain management, financial engineering, performance management systems or intrapreneuriat; being able to mobilize them in order to solve concrete management problems or cases
Understanding and being capable of using project management methods
Capacity to research autonomously and methodically the information needed to solve a complex, transversal management problem, to perform a rigorous analysis of it and to suggest pertinent solutions
Understanding and being capable of using modelization methods when seeking a solution for a concrete management problem
Providing concrete solutions to a management problem, integrating a dimension of technology, innovation or production
Being capable of professional team work
Developing leadership
Developing a critical sense (arguing)
Developing a transversal, global vision
Creative conception of solutions
Professional capacity for oral communication
Professional capacity for written communication
Faced with a management problem, suggesting solutions that are ethical and socially responsible and that respect the principles of good governance

Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :

Prerequisite (basics and principles) :

Management Accounting
Management Control

Course is taught in English and supported by documents in English, BUT the ability to realize interviews in French is compulsory to realize the practical work in an organization.
Note to Erasmus students : this ability to speak in French is verified before the start of the course.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

Students are grouped in teams of 5 people as a maximum and apply the 4 following steps, i.e. - Presentation, by using mental maps with a "Mind Mapping" software, of the basic principles of the themes focused during the course :

Modelization of the Value Chain, with key processes and activities
Modelization of the information system and the signalling approach theory
Basic principles of Total Quality Management and of the EFQM model.

- Elaboration of the "Value Chain" and identification of key processes and activities in an organization, including its links with its main customers, suppliers and controllers - Identification of the main information flows that are characterizing this organization - a simple audit of its Information System. They apply these tools in a company or an organization employing between 20 and 100 people, that they select by their own way.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

The course is organized in 12 sessions of 3 hours, organised around an individual presentation followed by a discussion with every work group. A specific work or a detailed follow-up of the practical work has to be realised every week. The course starts on Thursday, February 7, 2013 from 13.30 to 16.30 in Room 026 (Building N1).