Postgraduate Course: Modelling Business for Strategic Impact (EMBA) (CMSE11239)
Course Outline
| School | Business School |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course develops analytical skills needed for leadership in business improvement: understanding a business process; modelling it graphically; analysing its current performance; identifying current limitations, pitfalls and constraints to reach better performance; identifying the 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. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
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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
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Maurizio Tomasella
Tel:
Email: Maurizio.Tomasella@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Kate Ainsworth
Tel: (0131 6)51 3854
Email: Kate.Ainsworth@ed.ac.uk |
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