Business Process Reengineering
Credit points
(Generally, 1 credit = 10 hours of classes and independent study.)
Location
VU Brisbane
VU Sydney
Prerequisites
(Or equivalent to be determined by unit coordinator)
Co-requisites
(Corequisite units must be studied concurrently with this unit)
Overview
Develop expertise in business-process design, supported by practical skills in business process management workflow application, within the Business Process Reengineering.
This unit will introduce you to the major strategic approaches used to understand, analyse, and implement efficient business processes.
You will discover the importance of creating efficient processes through:
- analysing strategic and organisational issues within enterprise resource planning systems (ERPs)
- applying process management techniques.
Using business process workflow application software, you will gain practical skills in the Workflow module for process and procedure modelling.
You will also examine the issues that you are likely to encounter in identifying, reorganising, and designing processes in a business organisation.
By the end of the unit, you will understand how designing and re-engineering business processes can provide organisations with strategic advantages.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
- Critically review and discuss the critical issues in a dynamic business environment and determine how these differ from the response of Business Process Reengineering in achieving positive outcomes in such an environment;
- Investigate a business process through the framework of Business Process Modelling Notation;
- Design an effective organisational plan for a workflow and adopt contemporary professional practices by creating a workflow; and,
- Analyse the relationships between actors, work flows, and objects in a business process.
Assessment
For Melbourne campuses
Assessment type: Test | Grade: 20%
Online quiz
Assessment type: Assignment | Grade: 40%
Theory and practical (Reading and reflection (20%), modelling (20%))
Assessment type: Case Study | Grade: 40%
Business process re-engineering designing and implementing Report (Group, 30%), Presentation (Individual, 10%)
Other locations
Assessment type: Assignment | Grade: 25%
Cloud application design
Assessment type: Project | Grade: 25%
Cloud application development
Assessment type: Examination | Grade: 50%
Final written examination (3 hours)
Required reading
Selected readings will be made available via VU Collaborate.
As part of a course
This unit is not compulsory for any specific course. Depending on the course you study, this unit may be taken as an elective.