6 ECTS credits
158 u studietijd

Aanbieding 1 met studiegidsnummer 1016852BNR voor alle studenten in het 1e semester met een verdiepend bachelor niveau.

Semester
1e semester
Inschrijving onder examencontract
Niet mogelijk
Beoordelingsvoet
Beoordeling (0 tot 20)
2e zittijd mogelijk
Ja
Inschrijvingsvereisten
For students of the Master of International Business, there are no prerequisites. For students Business Economics: Students who want to enroll for this course, must have passed ‘Business Information Systems' and ' Intermediate Microeconomics' and must have obtained at least 30 ECTS-credits on bachelor level. Voor studenten Handelsingenieur die dit opleidingsonderdeel opnemen, moeten geslaagd zijn voor ‘Bedrijfsinformatica’ en ‘Micro-economie’ en voor minstens 30 ECTS-credits op bachelorniveau.
Onderwijstaal
Engels
Faculteit
Faculteit Sociale Wetensch & SolvayBusinessSchool
Verantwoordelijke vakgroep en betrokken faculteiten/vakgroepen
Business Technology and Operations
Toegepaste economie
Onderwijsteam
Ellen Van Droogenbroeck (titularis)
Sam Verboven
Emilie Grégoire
Onderdelen en contacturen
0 contacturen Exam
36 contacturen Lecture
18 contacturen Practical exercises
104 contacturen Self study
Inhoud

The IT modeling part of this course introduces a range of concepts, methods and modeling approaches that are being employed by business analysts in the industry, who are operating on the interface between the business and the IT department, in order to analyze and describe requirements with regards to the design, functionalities, development and implementation of business information systems. Topics that will be covered include the Unified Modeling Language (UML), meta-modeling, process modeling using Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), and data modeling using the Entity Relationship (ER) model.

The goal of IT Economics is to provide a review of some of the important economic factors affecting IT industries as well as users of IT (both companies and individuals). Factors that will be discussed are:

  • the specific cost structure of information goods and its implications for the market structure;
  • pricing of information goods in general and software in particular: (first-degree) price discrimination, versioning, bundling, etc.
  • switching costs and lock-in;
  • network externalities and critical mass;
  • compatibility and standards wars.
Studiemateriaal
Digitaal cursusmateriaal (Vereist) : Papers, newspaper clippings, handouts made available, Canvas
Handboek (Aanbevolen) : The Economics of Information Technology, An Introduction, Varian H., Farrell C. and Shapiro C., Cambridge University Press, 9780521605212, 2004
Handboek (Aanbevolen) : UML Distilled, A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language, Fowler M., 3de, Addison Wesley, 9780321193681, 2004
Handboek (Aanbevolen) : BPMN Method and Style, With Bpmn Implementer's Guide, Silver B., 2de, Cody-Cassidy Press, 9780982368114, 2011
Bijkomende info

Additional material such as papers, newspaper clippings, handouts, etc. will be made available through Canvas.

Presence during guest lectures is mandatory, presentations by guest lecturers are an integral part of the course material.

Teaching Methods

  • Lecture: collective contact-dependent moments during which the lecturer engages with learning materials
  • Seminar, Exercises or Practicals (Practical): collective or individual contact-dependent moments during which the students are guided to actively engage with learning materials
  • Independent or External Form of Study (Self): independent study

This description of the teaching methods is indicative, in order to assess the expected study load.

Part “IT Modeling”

Lecture: 18 hours (6 x 3 hours)

Practical: 18 hours (6 x 3 hours)

  • solving exercises in group

Self: 70 hours

  • keeping up with the course material during the semester and run through background info, amounting to 4 hours per lecture: 24 hours (6 x 4 hours)
  • individual preparation of exercises, amounting to 3 hours per practical: 18 hours (6 x 3 hours)
  • preparation exam: 24 hours (3 days of 8 hours)

Part “IT Economics”

Lecture: 18 hours (6 x 3 hours)

Self: 34 hours

  • keeping up with the course material during the semester and run through background info, amounting to 3 hours per lecture: 18 hours (6 x 3 hours)
  • preparation exam (incl. solving exercises on Canvas): 16 hours (2 days of 8 hours)
Leerresultaten

General competencies

This course consists of two distinct but related parts. The first part concerns IT modeling.  The second and most theoretical part discusses the basic economics of information technology.

In the IT modeling part of the course, students should at the end of the course have a good understanding of the different uses of the Unified Modeling Language, among which meta-modeling, and be able to apply a conceptual data modeling technique (entity-relationship modeling) to capture and describe the basic information requirements for an enterprise domain, as well as to use a process modeling technique (BPMN) to capture and analyze business processes.

For the IT economics part, students should at the end of the course have a good understanding of the economics of information and the economics of networks. They should be able to recognize relevant concepts and theories when presented with real-life situations about the IT sector, and they should be able to critically discuss the pros and cons of strategies followed by IT companies.

Beoordelingsinformatie

De beoordeling bestaat uit volgende opdrachtcategorieën:
Examen Schriftelijk bepaalt 100% van het eindcijfer

Binnen de categorie Examen Schriftelijk dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:

  • Schriftelijk Examen: IT Model met een wegingsfactor 65 en aldus 65% van het totale eindcijfer.

    Toelichting: Schriftelijk gesloten boek examen op 65% van het totaal
  • Schriftelijk Examen: IT Econ met een wegingsfactor 35 en aldus 35% van het totale eindcijfer.

    Toelichting: Schriftelijk gesloten boek examen op 35% van het totaal

Aanvullende info mbt evaluatie

Written exam (closed book) on 100% of total (65% IT modeling and 35% IT economics), only if the student obtains at least 35% on every part, namely IT Modeling and IT Economics. If not, the lowest partial grade denotes 100% of the total.

Toegestane onvoldoende
Kijk in het aanvullend OER van je faculteit na of een toegestane onvoldoende mogelijk is voor dit opleidingsonderdeel.

Academische context

Deze aanbieding maakt deel uit van de volgende studieplannen:
Bachelor handelsingenieur: Standaard traject
Bachelor handelsingenieur: Verkort traject na vooropleiding Professionele bachelor Bedrijfsmanagement met Afstudeerrichting Accountancy-fiscaliteit of Financie- en verzekeringswezen
Bachelor handelsingenieur: Verkort traject na vooropleiding Professionele bachelor Bedrijfsmanagement met Afstudeerrichting Logistiek Management of Professionele bachelor toegepaste informatica
Bachelor handelsingenieur: Verkort traject na vooropleiding Professionele bachelor Bedrijfsmanagement met Afstudeerrichting Marketing
Bachelor handelsingenieur: Verkort traject na vooropleiding Industriële wetenschappen of Ingenieurswetenschappen
Bachelor of Business Economics: Business and Technology (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)
Master of International Business: Standaard traject (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)
Voorbereidingsprogramma Master of Science handelsingenieur: Standaard traject