Introduction to Business Informatics

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Introduction to Business Informatics

• Session 3
• 16 september 2009

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Program

• Seminar Advanced Method Engineering
• Sjaak Brinkkemper
• ICT Entrepreneurship
• Sjaak Brinkkemper , Slinger Jansen
• Enterprise Architecture
• Rik Bos
• Knowledge Management
• Remko Helms
• Marco Spruit
• Business Process Management
• Pascal Ravesteyn, Johan Versendaal
• E-Business
• Marijn Plomp, Inge van de Weerd
• Method Engineering
• Inge van de Weerd, Sjaak Brinkkemper
• Advances in E-Business
• Johan Versendaal
• Software Ecosystems Seminar

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ICT-E Nedstat (ander bedrijf kiezen!)
Dr. Slinger Jansen Prof.dr. Sjaak Brinkkemper
Now 80 employees 4.3 M turnover 6 int. offices
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Product teams

• Each product team
• Works on its own product idea
• Is an independent product line
• Proposes a working plan within the ECTS boundary
  for the 10 weeks block
• Reports on the working plan adapts planning
• Can elaborate on anything viable for a ICT
  product or service, related to the stage of the
  idea
• Architecture
• Software coding
• Service definition
• Webservice development
• Product packaging
• Business plan and company set-up
• Innovation is essential for selection and
  grading!

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Netherware Organization
Horizontal teams for company experience
Netherware BV CEO
Netherware CEO
Board of Governors
Project Office
Finance
s1
s4
HRM
s5
Team 1 P1
Team 2 P2
Team 3 P3
Team n Pn
Technology
s2
s1
s4
s2
Marketing
s3
s5
s3
Product teams for own product development
InvestorRelations
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End review
All students present their products and business
plans to Board of Supervisors 5 M Virtual
Venture Capital

• Members of Board of Supervisors
• Venture capital fund
• Holding multi-national
• IT entrepreneur
• Institutional investment
• IT journalist
• Marketing specialist

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To enter the Course you need

• A great idea
• A product team capable of implementing key
  innovations of the product
• Send your idea to slinger.jansen_at_cs.uu.nl before
  the start of the course
• Already own a company/product? Think of a new
  business case!
• Subscribe to the course by sending an e-mail to
  slinger_at_cs.uu.nl and subscribing to the course in
  Osiris.

In this course you make the difference!
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Enterprise Architecture
Teachers Dr. R. Bos (r.bos_at_cs.uu.nl) Prof. dr.
S. Brinkkemper (no email)
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EA(R)

• Enterprise Architecture (EA) deals with the
  texts, models and rules of the complete
  information infrastructure of an enterprise
• Focus is on modeling
• high level models
• produced in groups of 2 or 3 students
• for real companies/organizations
• you have to find a company/organization
  yourself!!!

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Two papers

• a paper on modeling an enterprise
• a paper on a topic relevant for EA
• Business IT Alignment
• Service Orientation
• Governance
• Application Integration
• Rationalisation of the application portfolio
• Outsourcing
• ...

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Other issues

• Literature
• Reader
• Guest speakers
• Draft version of papers
• BSCW

• Short presentations by students
• Lab sessions (practicum)
• Exam

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More other issues

• MBI coordinator
• Exam Committee (vice chair)
• Knowledge Management (with Remko)Bachelor
  courses
• WO
• MSO

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Remko Helms (1970)

• Assistant professor at the OI group since 2003
• Background in Management Science and Applied
  Physics
• 7 yrs. experience as business/it consultant

• Research interests Knowledge Sharing Networks,
  Knowledge Governance, Application of Web 2.0 to
  support KM

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Knowledge Management Course Themes

• Knowledge
• KM models strategy
• Intellectual capital
• Organizational learning
• Knowledge sharing online communities
• KM systems technologies
• KM implementation models

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Knowledge Management Structure of the course

• Lectures and individual exam on theory
• KM Simulation game
• Group assignment
• Deliverables Strategy Implementation report,
  Peer review
• Research assignment (subject to be determined)
• Group assignment
• Deliverables Research proposal,
  Questionnaire/Interview format, Research report

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Your virtual office in the simulation game
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Knowledge Management Preparation

• Create a Second Life account and learn how to get
  around and to communicate in Second Life. One or
  more lectures will be in Second Life.
• Suggested reading- Davenport Prusak (1998).
  Working knowledge. Harvard Business School
  Press- Nonaka Takeuchi (1995). The knowledge
  creating company. Oxford University Press

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Other courses

• 2 Bachelor courses but relevant for MBI students
  with a deficiency
• Research Methods (INFOWO)
• Research methods in general and particular track
  on statistics
• Strategic Management, Organizational Development
  and ICT (INFOSMOI)
• Simulation game Running your own beer company

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Marco Spruit

• About me
• Computational linguist
• Product Software developer for 14 years (minus 2)
• Independent Software Vendor (ISV) for 7 years
• Teaching Information systems, a.o.
• http//m.spru.it/
• Recent publications
• Data mining to improve corporate performance and
  language variation research
• Business Intelligence to optimise the fit between
  users, tasks and technologies
• Social Computing (aka Web 2.0) business models
  and organisational strategies
• Information Security frameworks to assist
  cost-benefit analyses of the costs of security.

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Johan Versendaal (1964)

• Assistant Professor at UU since 2002
• Lector at Hogeschool Utrecht since 2008
• Research Interests e-business,
  business/IT-alignment
• Courses BPM, Advances in E-Business

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Business Process Management Third Period

• Theory part involving
• humans,
• organizations,
• applications,
• documents and
• scientific literature
• Practical part in cooperation with the
  Hogeschool Utrecht we will build
• BPMS applications
• Interfaces between BMPSs

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BPM - Course content

• During the practical business simulation (on
  Thursday mornings) students will learn how to
  work with Cordys (business process management)
  software, and participate in workshops at the
  business laboratory of Hogeschool Utrecht. They
  will create and implement a simple supply chain
  solution (SCS) case in Cordys BCP, and let the
  business partners collaborate with each other
  according to predefined public processes using
  web services. Monitoring of business operations
  concludes the business case.
• During the seminars, theoretical elaboration will
  take place on the issues related to the
  implementation of Business Process Management
  Systems. Research approaches to validate a BPMS
  implementation methodology will be presented and
  defended, accordingly the research will be done,
  after which an analysis and conclusions will be
  provided in written format.

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Advances in E-BusinessThe E-business Bled
project

• Johan Versendaal
• Utrecht University
• The Netherlands
• j.versendaal_at_cs.uu.nl

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The group of 2007
The group of 2008
The group of 2009
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What is the Advances in E-Business about?

• Innovative E-Business application idea, design,
  prototyping, poster in cooperation with
  Hogeschool Utrecht students
• Present and participate in the international
  e-business Bled conference 2010
• Writing a conference report
• Presenting to sponsors
• Participating in a hands-on e-sourcing simulation
  project

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Participating in a hands-on e-sourcing simulation
project

• In collaboration (through VC and at the Bled
  conefrence) with students groups from
• Maribor University, Slovenia
• Dublin University, Ireland
• Using E-sourcing applications (by Negometrix)
• Playing multiple simulations rounds
• Set roles of buyer/supplier
• Set rules of the trading/auction
• Evaluation

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The international e-business Bled conference 2009
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Bled 2008 Presentations
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Bled 2009 presentation
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Inge van de Weerd

• PhD research at the OI group from 2005-2009
• Assistant professor at the OI group since
  September 1, 2009
• Research Interests
• Software product management
• Method engineering
• Game production methods
• Courses
• E-Business (period 1)
• Seminar Advanced Method Engineering (period 1)
• Method Engineering (period 3)

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E-Business 2009

• Lecturers
• Marijn Plomp
• Inge van de Weerd
• Lectures on e-business
• Research project on chain digitization
• Find a respondent to fill a questionnaire!

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Method Engineering

• Professors
• Inge van de Weerd
• Sjaak Brinkkemper
• Et al.
• Course contents
• Lectures on method engineering theory and
  research
• Practical track carrying our your own method
  engineering research
• Literature
• Selection of papers

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Lectures

• Subjects
• Method engineering basics
• Meta-modeling
• Situational method engineering
• Method comparison
• Guest lectures using method engineering in your
  graduation project
• Guest lecture Computer Aided Method Engineering
  (CAME) tools

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Practical track

• Writing a paper about an existing method
• Assignments
• Introduction, related literature
• Process-deliverable diagram
• Draft paper
• Presentation
• Peer review
• Final paper

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Seminar Advanced Method Engineering

• 5th period of MBI
• Research seminar in small group
• Reading literature in the area of Method
  Engineering
• Writing a scientific paper on a chosen topic
• This years topics
• Formal method comparison
• Situationality of the Quper method for quality
  requirements
• Collaborative modeling
• Increments of the meta-method
• Methods for software operational knowledge
• Situational method for agent systems

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Software Ecosystems Seminar (period 3)

• Software Ecosystem a set of actors functioning
  as a unit and interacting with a shared market
  for software and services, together with the
  relationships among them.
• Cooperatively study developments and
  visualization techniques for software ecosystems.
• Set-up as an academic community with
• A blog
• A workshop
• Several guest presentations
• Workshop Proceedings

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Relevant Topics

• Strategic advice for software vendors
• A software ecosystem analysis method
• Software ecosystem models
• API related topics design, development,
  marketing
• Software ecosystem modeling
• Software ecosystem practices and experience
• Software business models
• Product software and software licensing
• Communities of practice and software reuse
• Economic impact of software ecosystems
• Software ecosystem creation
• Keystone and niche player survival strategy

• Architectural implications of reusability
• Formal modeling of business models
• API development
• Publishing APIs
• Software product management
• Software product lines
• Software development communities
• Software ecosystem orchestration
• Market-specific domain engineering
• Open source software ecosystems
• Virtualized software enterprises
• API compatibility over subsequent releases

http//www.softwareecosystems.org