Faculty: ENGINEERING
First level degree Name: MANAGEMENT ENGINEERING
First level degree Internet Address:
Course Title: BUSINESS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
GISS Codex: 27000383
Sharing: None
Composition in modules: NONE
Scientific Discipline Sector: ING-IND/35
Professor/Research in charge: / ENG.SALVATORE AMMIRATO
Teaching Position / RESEARCHER
ECTS:9
Teaching Hours: N° 50 / Lectures Hours: 50
Exercises Hours: ********
Laboratory Hours: *******
Self study hours: N° 100
Tipology: Charatherizing Activities
Teaching Language: Italian
Schedule: 3rdYear, 1stSemester
Prerequirement: NONE
Objectives of the course:
The aim of this course is to offer students an overall vision of theoretical, methodological, and applicative aspects concerning business information planning, design and management. First part of the course focalizes on economic theories constituting the basis for introducing information systems within an organization. Second part of the course aims to give students technical and organizing competencies for business information design and management following the Process Management approach. Last part of the course focalizes on methodologies and tools to support business modeling through specific modeling languages (i.e.: IDEF, UML, ISAC, etc.). Further applications and case studies will be analyzed by means of group and individual projects.
Lecture contents:
Business information:
  • Analysis and definition of business information requirements
  • Information and organizational systems
  • Technology and technical systems
  • Economic theories at the basis of organization and information systems planning and design: decisional, transactional and agency coasts approaches.
Organizational processes and information flows engineering
  • Organizational processes and Process Management:
  • Business Process Modeling (BPM) and process evaluation; Activity based costing (ABC) and management (ABM); an operative model to process management: the PDCA cycle.
  • Business Process Improvement (BPI) and Business Process Reengineering (BPR).
  • Introduction on methodologies and tools for organizational process modeling.
  • Strategies for information systems adoption within an organization.
Methodologies and tools for business processes and information flows modeling
  • Using LRC, RAD diagrams and ISAC methodology as tools for systems analysis.
  • Business processes redesign: case studies.
  • The IDEF family of languages: focus on IDEF0, IDEF1x, IDEF3.
  • The use of UML for business modeling.
  • Modeling languages applications on case studies.

Exercises contents:******
Laboratory contents: ******
Attendance in class: Required
Teaching performance: in the lecture hall or in the PC-laboratory, with the support of traditional methods and a projector connected to computer; in laboratory, by using business modeling software for case studies analyses.
Evaluation Assessement: collaborative group projects and a final oral examination
Bibliografy and Recommended reading:
  • Giampio Bracchi, Chiara Francalanci, Gianmario Motta, Sistemi informativi d'impresa, McGraw-Hill, 2010
1)Other lecture notes provided by professor
Time table and Lesson Rooms: /
Exams calendar:

1