Business Process Analysis and Design

General

Course Contents

  • Introduction – Basic concepts of business process management.
  • Principles of business process design and redesign.
  • The subject of process analysis and design.
  • Requirements analysis: methods and perspectives.
  • The business model & the framework of business modeling.
  • Modeling use cases.
  • Entity modeling (class diagrams).
  • Process modeling: BPMN diagrams.
  • Process modeling: sequence diagrams.
  • Practical applications of process modeling.
  • Process execution modeling: process choreography.
  • Process execution modeling: process orchestration.
  • Career opportunities in business process analysis and design.

Educational Goals

The objectives of this course are:

  • To present the view of business as a set of processes.
  • To acquaint students with analysis and design, which are part of the initial phases of systems development and management.
  • To introduce concepts of business process analysis and design and explain their importance in identifying problems and improving or developing new business processes.
  • To present modeling methods and techniques for the analysis and design of business processes.
  • To present the professional employment opportunities in the analysis and design of business processes.

Upon completion of the course students should be able to:

  • Understand the importance of processes to achieve business goals and the importance of planning and redesigning business processes.
  • Know basic concepts of analysis and design of business processes and business modeling.
  • Know requirements analysis, data collection and business process documentation techniques.
  • Apply modeling techniques for the analysis and design/reengineering of processes.
  • Assess the effectiveness of business processes, identify problem areas of business operation and propose corrective actions and improvements.

General Skills

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Teaching Methods

  • Face to face.

Use of ICT means

  • Online guidance.
  • Slides Projection in the classroom.
  • Use of E-mail and onlne communication systems.
  • Use of e-learning system (moodle).

Teaching Organization

ActivitySemester workload
Lectures39
Project60
Personal Study26
Total125

Students Evaluation

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Recommended Bibliography

Προτεινόμενη Βιβλιογραφία:

  • ΕΙΣΑΓΩΓΗ ΣΤΟΝ ΣΧΕΔΙΑΣΜΟ ΥΠΗΡΕΣΙΩΝ: ΣΧΕΔΙΑΣΜΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΑΟΡΑΤΟΥ, LARA PENIN, Έκδοση: 1η/2022, Συγγραφείς:, Κωδικός Βιβλίου στον Εύδοξο: 112696307
  • This is Service Design Thinking: Basics, Tools, Cases, by Marc Stickdorn and Jakob Schneide, Wiley, 1st ed., 2012.
  • Service Design: From Insight to Implementation, Andy Polaine, Lavrans Løvlie, Ben Reason, Rosenfeld Media, 1st edition, 2013.

Υποστηρικτική βιβλιογραφία

  • Ανάπτυξη Νέων Υπηρεσιών: Τουρισμός – Υγεία – Επιχειρηματικότητα – Καινοτομία, Φώτης Χ. Κίτσιος, Κωνσταντίνος Ζοπουνιδης, Εκδόσεις Κλειδάριθμος, 2008. Κωδικός Βιβλίου στον Εύδοξο: 13595
  • Διοίκηση Παραγωγής Προϊόντων και Υπηρεσιών, Nigel Slack, Stuart Chambers, Robert Johnston, Έκδοση: 5η/2010, Εκδόσεις Κλειδάριθμος [13655]

Related Research Journals

  • Journal of Service Research
  • Journal of Service Management
  • Journal of Services Marketing
  • Journal of Service Management information
  • International Journal of Design
  • The Service Industries Journal
  • e-Service Journal
  • Journal of Service Science and Management
  • Ecosystem Services
  • Touchpoint – The Journal of Service Design
  • Journal of Design Research
  • International Journal of Design
  • Journal of Internet Services and Applications
  • Customer Services
  • System Analysis and Design