IS-403 Digital Transformation and Business Process Management (Autumn 2025)

Upon successful completion of the course, students will:

• be able to plan digitalization and digital transformation in organizations
• have advanced knowledge about how digital technology enables new strategies, restructuring and improvements of work processes in organizations
• have knowledge about the role process orientation plays in digitalization and in creating digital transformation in organizations
• have in-depth knowledge about different traditions, theories and practices for business process management in organizations
• Be able to independently model, analyze, and identify target states for business processes using leading tools.

The digitalization of society and business leads to an increasing need for private and public enterprises to renew themselves regularly. New requirements for products and services, as well as greater emphasis on sustainability goals, make adaptability increasingly important.

The course consists of the following:

• Digital transformation of organizations
• Analysis of several cases with digital transformation in several industries
• Digital transformation and sustainability
• The importance of IT and dynamic skills for the creation of new strategies and change processes in organizations
• Customer orientation as a basis for digitalization
• Management concepts focusing on continuous change for sustainable competitiveness
• Enterprise Architecture
• IT-based tools for modelling business processes

The course uses a two-part evaluation form.

One or more project assignments counting 40% of the final grade. A 3-hour written exam counts 60% of final grade. Both parts must be passed in order to obtain a final grade. Individual grades, A-F. Additional information will be published in Canvas.