ITIS405 : Business Process Management

Department

Department of Information Systems

Academic Program

Bachelor in Information Systems

Type

Elective

Credits

03

Prerequisite

ITIS326

Overview

In this course students will be introduced to key concepts and approaches to business process management and improvement. The main focus of this course is both understanding and designing business processes. Students will learn how to identify, document, model, assess, and improve core business processes. Students will be introduced to process design principles. The way in which information technology can be used to manage, transform, and improve business processes is discussed. Students will be exposed to challenges and approaches to organizational change, domestic and offshore outsourcing, and inter-organizational processes.

Intended learning outcomes

Knowledge &understand

  • The student will learn advanced methodologies in business process modeling.
  • Identify the mechanisms used in business process modeling.
  • Identify the stages of business process modeling processes.
  • Learn how to implement and follow up the systems in terms of maintenance, modernization and development.

mental skills

  • Students acquire the spirit of teamwork skills.
  • Ability to blend project management methodologies with systems analysis and design.
  • Dealing with the system as separate components, integrating them according to the requirements of producing an integrated system.
  • To learn how to motivate system owners to be involved in systems analysis and design processes.

Practical & professional skills

  • In-depth dealing with the business operations management methodology
  • Accurate dealing with processes management and realizing its crucial role in developing systems.
  • Utilize modern frameworks to design, automate and model business processes
  • Implementation of analysis and design Operations with continuous follow-up of change in technology.

General and transferable skills

  • Editorial communication and report writing.
  • Oral communication with the ability to give presentations.
  • Studying some environments, and extrapolating the possibility of applying what studied in this course.
  • Applying what the student has learned in this course in the form of an integrated mini-project, from analysis to implementation.

Teaching and learning methods

  • Lectures
  • Tutorials
  • Problem-based learning
  • Mini-projects

Methods of assessments

  • Midterm exam = 20
  • Set of tests = 15
  • Mini-Project = 25
  • Final exam = 40

Course contents

  • Fundamentals of Business Processes (BP)
  • Workflow Management System
  • Business Process vs. Workflow
  • Business Process Management System
  • Workflow management formal Basis for Model
  • BPMN principle
  • BPMN rules
  • BPMN modelling Tools
  • Service Oriented Computing
  • Web-service technologies
  • Service lifecycle management
  • Business Process as a Service (BPaaS)
  • BP Engines
  • BP Implantation

Information Retrieval Systems (ITIS401)
Knowledge Management (ITIS402)
Data Mining/Business Intelligence (ITIS404)
Business Process Management (ITIS405)
Decision support system (ITIS406)
IS Innovation and New Technologies (ITIS407)
E-Government (ITIS408)
Physics (ITPH111)
Mathematics I (ITMM111)
Arabic language 1 (ITAR111)
Problem solving Technic (ITGS113)
Intro to Information Technology (ITGS111)
General English1 (ITEL111)
Mathematics II (ITMM122)
logic Circuit Design (ITGS126)
System Analysis and Design (ITGS124)
Introduction to Programming (ITGS122)
General English2 (ITEL122)
Arabic language 2 (ITAR122)
Introduction to Statistics (ITST211)
Object Oriented Programmin (ITGS211)
Introduction to Software Engineering (ITGS213)
Introduction to Networking (ITGS215)
Discrete Structures (ITGS217)
Numerical analysis (ITGS219)
Computer Architucture & Organization (ITGS223)
Data Structure (ITGS220)
Foundation of Information Systems (ITGS222)
Information Security (ITGS224)
Introduction to Internet Programming (ITGS226)
Introduction to database (ITGS228)
Operating System (ITGS302)
Scientific Writing (ITGS304)
Web Application Development (ITIS311)
Human Computer Interaction (ITIS312)
Data and Information Management (ITIS313)
Advanced Databases (ITIS325)
IT Infrastructure (ITIS323)
Design and Analysis algorithms (ITGS301)
Multimedia Systems (ITIS324)
Advanced System analysis & Design (ITIS326)
Enterprise Architecture (ITIS411)
Risk management and Security (ITIS412)
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (ITIS413)
IT Project Management (ITGS303)
Enterprise Systems (ITIS421)
IS strategy ,management and acquisition (ITIS422)