Professionals around the world consider an MBA program to be an excellent stepping stone as they move onwards within their careers. This MBA in Business Process Management and Workflow Management program is the ultimate preparation for the challenges of senior management.
Business process management (BPM) is a management approach focused on aligning all aspects of an organization with the wants and needs of clients. It is a holistic management approach that promotes business effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation, flexibility, and integration with technology. Business process management attempts to improve processes continuously. It could therefore be described as a "process optimization process." It is argued that BPM enables organizations to be more efficient, more effective and more capable of change than a functionally focused, traditional hierarchical management approach.
A workflow management system is a computer system that manages and defines a series of tasks within an organisation to produce a final outcome or outcomes. Workflow Management Systems allow you to define different workflows for different types of jobs or processes. So, for example, in a manufacturing setting, a design document might be automatically routed from designer to a technical director to the production engineer. At each stage in the workflow, one individual or group is responsible for a specific task. Once the task is complete, the workflow software ensures that the individuals responsible for the next task are notified and receive the data they need to execute their stage of the process. Workflow management systems also automate redundant tasks and ensure uncompleted tasks are followed up. Workflow management systems may control automated processes in addition to replacing paper workorder transfers. If for example the above design documents are now available as Autocad but the workflow requires them as Catia an automated process would implement the conversion prior to notifying the individual responsible for the next task. This is the concept of dependancies. A workflow management system reflects the dependencies required for the completion of each task.
"Companies need business process analysts and engineers, not systems analysts and programmers. Now is the time for business schools to provide their graduates with the business process management knowledge and hands-on skills needed in the process-managed enterprise, the company of the future. The future will be owned by those who don't just improve processes, but who create methodologies and systems that automate their creation to achieve create competitive advantage. Professors, please teach your students to speak BPML, the language of process. Vendors, please give them the tools they need" Excerpts from Business Process Management: The Third Wave, Howard Smith and Peter Fingar, ISBN 0-929652-33-9 Off-press November 2002.
What can students expect from the WUACADEMIA MBA?
Expect to learn how to be a successful leader, and you will. Building on your educational and professional background, the MBA in Business Process Management and Workflow Management will allow you to perfect your leadership skills, while broadening your understanding of the business world.
The MBA in Business Process Management and Workflow Management develops the managerial capabilities of exceptional individuals without interrupting their careers
The program is structured to provide an ideal balance between academic and practical experience.
The skills you gain at WUACADEMIA will enable you to easily and rapidly adapt to the increasingly unpredictable world of international business.
The international diversity of our student body (students from over 70 countries) makes WUACADEMIA unique. Over 85 per cent of our students are from outside the Netherlands.
Henry Ford in 1919(?). Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
Objectives of Philosophical MBA
The objective of the Philosophical MBA : To enhance the managerial capital of young professionals and senior managers:
- By providing them the basic knowledge of the main managerial disciplines, with both a philosophical, scientific, environmental and cultural approach to management :
- Economics, Finance, Accounting and Valuation
- Management, Strategy and Marketing
- The Arts and Creativity & Innovation management
- Organizations, Institutions, and Human Resources
- Philosophy, Political Science and Environmental management.
- By providing a truly global education through the diversity of participants, faculty, and courses contents.
- By putting the firm in a coherent perspective with regard to the economic, social, political, ecological, philosophical and legal environment.
Goals of the Wuacademia MBA Program:
The Wuacademia Philosophical MBA is an academically rigorous, 12 (or 24) month program with a general management orientation and Political Philosophy. It seeks to develop sound business judgement, the ability to work effectively in a variety of cultural contexts, and the knowledge, skills and attitudes for on-going professional success in the field of international business.
Mission: Our mission is to transform business through management education and leadership development, creating a better world by creating better leaders.
What can students expect from the Philosophical MBA?
Expect to learn how to be a successful leader, and you will. Building on your educational and professional background, the Philosophical MBA will allow you to perfect your leadership skills, while broadening your understanding of the business world.
The Philosophical MBA develops the managerial capabilities of exceptional individuals without interrupting their careers.
The program is structured to provide an ideal balance between academic and practical experience.
The skills you gain at WUACADEMIA will enable you to easily and rapidly adapt to the increasingly unpredictable world of international business.
The international diversity of our student body (students from over 70 countries) makes WUACADEMIA unique. Over 85 per cent of our students are from outside the Netherlands.
Rafael's School of Athens, depicting Plato's Academy (This fresco is in the " Chamber of the Signature " to the Palace of Vatican)
You pay for 1 MBA program and you will get 2 diploma (an MBA Diploma and an Philosophical MBA Diploma).
Curriculum
- How Businesses Work (Value-Creation, Marketing, Sales, Value-Delivery, Finance)
- How People Work (The Human Mind, Working with Yourself, Working with Others)
- How Systems Work (Understanding Systems, Analyzing Systems, Improving Systems)
- Introduction to Business Process Management and Workflow Management
- Business process automation
- Business process management (BPM)
- Workflow Management System
- Workflow technology
- workflow application
- Essentials of Business Automation & Workflow Management
- How to Design an Automation Workflow - Module 1
- How to Design an Automation Workflow - Module 2
- Internet Automation
- How to extract your competitors price lists, stock information and other data from websites
- How to complete forms automatically
- How to navigate complex websites repeatedly without user intervention
- How to use macros script for the web automation (Internet agent, robot, spider)
- How to do the business automation in the Web
- CIO Chief Information Officer Role
- Enterprise Resources Planning ERP
- General Control Theory
- Feedback Control System
- Economic Environment of Business
- Marketing
- Internet Marketing
- Management Science
- Strategic Management
- Operations Management
- Human Resource Management
- Customer Relationship Management CRM
- Finance
- Financial Management
- Business and Society Management
- Advanced Strategy
- Supply Chain Management
- Leadership
- Entrepreneurship
- Strategic Sourcing
- Business Ethics
- Advanced Information Technology
- International Finance & Economic Analysis
- International Investment Management
- Strategic Finance & Value Creation
- Strategic Management Accounting
- Sales & Key Account Management
- Managing Marketing & Communication
- International Advertising
- Analysis of the Economic Environment
- Corporate Finance
- Energy Management
- Entrepreneurship
- Information Technology Management
- IT Information Technology
- Procurement Management (e-Procurement)
- Enterprise Resources Planning ERP
- Customer Relationship Management CRM
- Business Automation & Workflow
- Business Intelligence BI
- VoIP Enterprise Telephony
- International Business
- Investment and Portfolio Management
- Operations and Logistics Management
- Project Management
- Management by Exception
- Accounting & Finance for Managerial Decisions
- Internet Sales & Marketing, e-Commerce
- Group Performance
- Strategic Management
- Interorganizational cultural diversity and gender
- Media Management
- Marketing in a global context
- Global supply chain management
- Innovation and new business ventures
- Global organizational Strategy (Strategy formation, Strategy implementation, Trust and control)
- Business Administration & e-Company
- Public Administration & e-Government
- Risk Management
- Business plan
- The Arts and Creativity & Innovation management
- Environmental management
- Social sciences for Manager
- Economics
- Political Science for Manager
- International Relations, Government and Society
- Philosophy for Manager
- Political philosophy for Manager
- Philosophy of economics for Manager
- Exam script and portfolio
