Code
MGFE MIS 5204
Level
M2
Field
Systèmes d’information
Language
Anglais/English
ECTS Credits
4
Class hours
20
Total student load
60
Program Manager(s)
Department
- Technologies, Information et Management
Educational team
Introduction to the module
This is an advanced course on the principles, methods, and tools used to understand, analyze, design, and improve organizational processes and structures. It emphasizes both process-centric management and model-based representation of enterprises to support effective decision-making, transformation, and performance optimization.
Students will learn how to:
- Understand the role of business processes as the foundation of organizational value creation;
- Use enterprise modeling techniques to represent business activities, information flows, organizational roles, and IT systems in a structured way;
- Apply standardized modeling notations (e.g., BPMN) to describe processes and systems consistently;
- Analyze current (“as-is”) processes to identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and opportunities for improvement;
- Design improved (“to-be”) processes and align them with organizational objectives and digital strategies;
- Understand the purpose and value of enterprise architecture (EA) in aligning business strategy, information systems, and technology infrastructure;
- Explore major EA frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman Framework, FEAF) and their use in structuring architectural work;
- Develop and use architectural views and models (business, data, application, and technology layers) to represent organizational elements and their relationships;
- Apply governance mechanisms and roadmap planning to guide architectural change and implementation;
The course integrates lectures, hands-on modeling exercises, and project work that simulates real business challenges. By the end, students should be capable of documenting, analyzing, and improving business processes while linking enterprise models to strategic and operational goals.
Learning goals/Programme objectives
- 1. S’approprier les usages avancés et spécialisés des outils de l’intelligence digitale en s’assurant de leur impact durable et responsable,3. Communiquer stratégiquement dans des environnements globaux et multiculturels,5. Élaborer une vision stratégique et innovante, en s’appuyant sur les potentiels de l’intelligence digitale et sur un écosystème favorable
Objectifs d'apprentissage
- 1.1 - Audit advanced and specialised uses of digital intelligence tools in order to deploy them appropriately, taking into account the strategic context of organisations.
- 1.2 - Use digital intelligence tools efficiently to support the societal, digital, energy and environmental transformations of organisations, ensuring their sustainable and responsible impact.
- 3.1 - Identify, select and critically analyse various specialised and innovative resources, using ad hoc digital tools and in light of DDRSE issues, in order to inform decision-making on complex subjects.
- 5.2 - Lead or co-lead the development of an innovative, meaningful strategic vision, drawing on the potential of digital intelligence, within a set of identified constraints, to create the conditions for sustainable performance.
Content : structure and schedule
PART I
- Introduction to Business Process Management (BPM) and to Business Process Lifecycle
- Business process modeling and the BPMN notation
- Exercises in business process modeling
- Process redesign and business process reengineering (BPR)
- Case-study in BPR
PART II
- Introduction to Enterprise modeling and Enterprise Architecture
- Purpose and value of enterprise architecture (EA) in aligning business strategy, information systems, and technology infrastructure;
- Major EA frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman Framework, FEAF) and their use in structuring architectural work;
- Architectural views and models (business, data, application, and technology layers) to represent organizational elements and their relationships;
- Software tools for Enterprise Architecture and the MEGA platform
Sustainable Development Goals
Goal 9 - Industry, innovation and infrastructure
The course teaches advanced techniques and tools for developing innovative data-based solutions in all sorts of industries
Learning delivery
synchrone
Pedagogical methods
F2F lectures
Case studies
Evaluation and grading system and catch up exams
Homework and exercices = 20%
BPR project = 20%
BPM exam = 20%
Enterprise Architecture project = 40%
Catch-up exam : a case-study in BPM and BPR
Module Policies
Professor-Student Communication
● The professor will contact the students through their school email address (IMT-BS/TSP) and the Moodle portal. No communication via personal email addresses will take place. It is the student responsibility to regularly check their IMT-BS/TSP mailbox.
● Students can communicate with the professor by emailing him/her to his institutional address. If necessary, it is possible to meet the professor in his office during office-hours or by appointment.
Students with accommodation needs
If a student has a disability that will prevent from completing the described work or require any kind of accommodation, he may inform the program director (with supporting documents) as soon as possible. Also, students are encouraged to discuss it with the professor.
Class behavior
● Out of courtesy for the professor and classmates, all mobile phones, electronic games or other devices that generate sound should be turned off during class.
● Students should avoid disruptive and disrespectful behavior such as: arriving late, leaving early, careless behavior (e.g. sleeping, reading a non-course material, using vulgar language, over-speaking, eating, drinking, etc.). A warning may be given on the first infraction of these rules. Repeated violators will be penalized and may face expulsion from the class and/or other disciplinary proceedings.
● The tolerated delay is 5 minutes. Attendance will be declared on Moodle during these 5 minutes via a QR code provided by the teacher at each course start.
● Student should arrive on time for exams and other assessments. No one will be allowed to enter the classroom once the first person has finished the exam and left the room. There is absolutely no exception to this rule. No student can continue to take an exam once the time is up. No student may leave the room during an examination unless he / she has finished and handed over all the documents.
● In the case of remote learning, the student must keep his camera on unless instructed otherwise by the professor.
Honor code
IMT-BS is committed to a policy of honesty in the academic community. Conduct that compromises this policy may result in academic and / or disciplinary sanctions. Students must refrain from cheating, lying, plagiarizing and stealing. This includes completing your own original work and giving credit to any other person whose ideas and printed materials (including those from the Internet) are paraphrased or quoted directly. Any student who violates or helps another student violate academic behavior standards will be penalized according to IMT-BS rules.
Textbook Required and Suggested Readings
- Dumas, M., La Rosa, M., Mendling, J., & Reijers, H. A. (2018). Fundamentals of Business Process Management (2nd edition). Springer International Publishing. https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783662565087
- Stirna, J., & Persson, A. (Éds.). (2018). Enterprise Modeling : Facilitating the Process and the People. Springer International Publishing. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-94857-7
- Op’t Land, M., Proper, E., Waage, M., Cloo, J., & Steghuis, C. (2008). Enterprise architecture: creating value by informed governance. Springer Science & Business Media.
- Ross, J. W., Weill, P., & Robertson, D. (2006). Enterprise architecture as strategy : Creating a foundation for business execution. Harvard Business Press.
- The Open Group. The TOGAF® Standard, 10th Edition. Online at http://www.opengroup.org/togaf/
Keywords
Business Process Management, BPMN, Enterprise Architecture, MEGA, TOGAF
Prerequisites
None