Teaching & Studying: An Overview
Overview
The teaching in the field of information management and business informatics aims to enable students to make technically sound, reflective, and responsible contributions to the design of digital organizations. Graduates should be able to identify real-world business problems, analyze them systematically, and develop viable models and alternative courses of action on this basis.
A central concern of the teaching is to combine theoretical knowledge with practical application. Students acquire methodological and analytical skills that qualify them for demanding positions in companies, for further academic qualifications in business informatics, or for future management tasks.
The teaching concept is based on a balanced ratio of theoretical fundamentals, methodological consolidation, and practical case studies. The close integration of research and teaching makes it possible to incorporate current issues relating to the design and use of information systems into teaching. Project work, seminars, bachelor's and master's theses are also regularly offered in practical cooperation with companies.
Key areas of focus in teaching
In addition to teaching the fundamentals of economics and basic concepts of information and communication technology, teaching focuses in particular on the following areas:
Information management
Information as a production factor, information supply strategy, enterprise architecture management, process management, information modeling
Internal and inter-company information systems
Enterprise resource planning, industry-oriented information systems, especially in industrial contexts
Development and management of information systems
Management of the life cycle of information systems and organizational change, process models for the development of information systems, project management for IS projects, problem analysis and problem-oriented modeling, selection, adaptation, and introduction of standard application software
Modules and events
Bachelor
- Modeling of operational information systems (Enterprise Modeling):I nformation modeling (Conceptual Modeling), reference modeling (Reference Modeling)
- Service Engineering and Management
Master
The major elective "Information Management" is offered for Master's students. This comprises the following modules/courses:
- Process-oriented Information Systems
- IT governance, risk and compliance management
- Digital business models