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Postgraduate Course: Modelling Business for Strategic Impact (MBA) (CMSE11233)

Course Outline
SchoolBusiness School CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis course develops analytical skills needed for leadership in business improvement: understanding a business process; modelling it graphically; analysisng its current performance; identifying current limitations, pitfalls and constraints to reach better performance; identifying opportunities for process improvement; quantifying the potential impact of such improvement options; setting the agenda towards process improvement; and controlling implementation of the set agenda. Opportunities for development of leadership through analysis will be emphasised by the students having to work in a project team to analyse a real world, company-provided, business process improvement project. In this groupwork, the MBA students will also have the opportunity to test their learning from the core courses taught in Semester 1 on a full scale business problem.
Course description Business processes as collections of entities and resources. Process mapping techniques and related graphical modelling languages. Strategic Business Process Management. Discrete Event Simulation. Design of Experiments. Statistical Process Control.

This course comprises 24 hours of teaching (typically organised in 3-hour blocks), mostly in the form of lectures. These will be complemented by sessions in the computer lab, where the students will experience a hands-on approach to the learning and teaching of the quantitative content of the course. Lectures will provide the framework and agenda and motivate private study by providing the structure of the argument. Students are expected to devote some of their learning time to individual readings of both the core course material and other relevant readings . The additional readings may be needed for the individual students to be able to successfully complete the project tasks in the class project as assigned to them. During the class project, meetings will be held between the academic teaching staff and representatives of the student project team to provide feedback on the status of the class project work as well as to develop contingency plans to help them to resolve existing issues. During the project, representatives of the student team will also be required to meet with representatives of the company providing and supporting the class project.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements For Business School PG students only, or by special permission of the School. Please contact the course secretary.
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2014/15, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 2
Course Start Date 12/01/2015
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 24, Summative Assessment Hours 26, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 48 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 100 %, Coursework 0 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Class Project Report - 70%
Individual Report - 30%
Feedback Not entered
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding:
¿ The key ingredients of all business processes: entities (i.e. information, materials, energy) and resources.
¿ The main techniques and graphical modelling languages available to map business processes.
¿ The strategic role of quantitative methods for business process modelling and continuous process improvement.
¿ Discrete Event Simulation: a tool and a mind set to quantify risks and benefits from alternative process designs.
¿ Statistical Design of Experiments (DoE) and its role in optimising business process performance.
¿ Statistical Process Control (SPC): i.e. keeping the KPIs of a business process under control over time.

Cognitive Skills:
¿ Apply project management basic concepts, ideas and techniques, as well knowledge from core courses taught in Semester 1 to work as a project team on a real world business modelling and analysis project.
¿ Apply the correct blend of intuitive reasoning and of the quantitative modelling and analysis techniques discussed in the course, as required by the specific real world business modelling and analysis project.

Subject Specific Skills:
¿ Skills of argument development and persuasion, both as a project team and as individuals
¿ Skills of working in a project team to reach a common goal
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Maurizio Tomasella
Tel:
Email: Maurizio.Tomasella@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Kate Ainsworth
Tel: (0131 6)51 3854
Email: Kate.Ainsworth@ed.ac.uk
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