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Master Vorlesung/Seminar Business Collaboration

Recommended Prerequisites

Module Business Software

Lecturers

Assessment and Grading

The grade for the complete module is a 50:50 composite of the Lecture Course (Vorlesung) examination grade and the Seminar grade. Both parts must be completed successfully in order to pass the module.

Examination (Lecture course)

Written examination: 10.02.2015, 14:00 (90 minutes), room: E314
Written retry examination: 14.04.2015, 08:00 (90 minutes), room: D 239

You may bring a HANDWRITTEN page (double sided) into the exam room. A paper dictionary is also allowed.

Credit points

Lecture Course (Vorlesung, 2 SWS): 3 credit points
Seminar (2 SWS): 3 credit points 
Total (4 SWS): 6 credit points

Learning Objectives

On completion of the course, students will be able to:

  • Understand and explain relevant areas of Business Collaboration
  • Describe and apply the concepts, theories, methods, and models taught in the course
  • Follow a methodical approach to the evaluation of solutions for Business Collaboration
  • Critically discuss the pros and cons of collaboration solutions
  • Effectively manage the implementation of collaboration solutions

Course Description

This course focuses on the integration of business software. In modern organizations there are few business units that can work without the support of information systems. Consequently, every employee will have contact with an ERP system (e.g. SAP or Microsoft Dynamics NAV) at their workplace.

The course Business Collaboration aims to enable graduates to analyse integration scenarios of ERP systems that have to be connected with other information systems across company boundaries. In the course we discuss solutions for given integration problems in a global supply chain. The course content provides means and directions for future IT professionals (e.g. CIOs) to make decisions about technical architectures, operational scenarios and the organization of integration projects.

Case Study Method

Participants adopt the role of an IT professional to solve concrete case scenarios of real-world organizations. The scenarios are presented in case studies. During the sessions the participants will discuss different courses of action to solve the given problem scenario. Subsequently, the solution will be introduced and explained. By that, the participants learn to analyse a given integration scenario, to identify potential problems and to develop possible solutions.

The lecture will mainly be held in the form of a dialogue. It is necessary to read the case study material before the session to be able to participate in the discussion.

Literature and Material

All lecture and seminar documents (if electronically available) will be uploaded and made accessible in UniConnect in the course of the semester.

Please note: All documents (slides, script, literature) will be in English. The language used during the sessions will be German as long as there are no international students enrolled in the course. The same rule applies to the examination.

Content of the Course

  • Business software and its interorganizational use
  • Different types of business collaboration
  • Business documents: different types of standards (e.g. technical)
  • Interorganizational process integration in industrial organizations
  • Interorganizational enterprise resource planning in retail organizations
  • Electronic document exchange between companies (without intermediaries)
  • Intermediaries, service providers
  • Coordination of several business partners via electronic platforms
  • Evaluation of business collaboration Solutions
  • Economical assessment of data Exchange: costs, benefits
  • Case studies

 

Seminar

Introduction

The topics for the seminar papers will be assigned at the first lecture of Business Collaboration, Tuesday, 28.10.2014, 14.00.

Presentations

Dates for presentation are Thursday, 29.01.2015, and Friday, 30.01.2015.

Start and end times are still tbd due to the unknown number of participating students. We will inform you as soon as all seminar papers are assigned. Presentations will be held as a block course. Attendance is compulsory!

Registration

Registration via KLIPS

Expenditure

  • 1x90 minutes introduction
  • nx45 minutes presentations at the end of semester (n=number of participants)
  • working time for the seminar papers

Course Description

The seminar is organized as a scientific conference. Students are required to (1) do research about their given topic, (2) write down their findings in a seminar paper and (3) present their results in front of the scientific community (fellow students). In course of the semester each student will

  • produce an outline of their intended seminar paper which is commented by the lecturers
  • write the first version of their seminar paper
  • write a review of a randomly assigned seminar paper of a fellow student
  • write the final version of their seminar paper
  • present the findings in front of their fellow students and the lecturers
  • upload their referenced literature (if accessible) in UniConnect to give access to their fellow students

The specific dates for each deliverable will be announced during the introduction.

Available Topics

  1. Capabilities of Social Media in Interorganizational Cooperation: Background and Best Practices - Team 1
  2. Interorganizational Information Systems in the Automotive Industry: Background and Best Practices - Team 4
  3. Interorganizational Information Systems in the Tourism Sector: Background and Best Practices - Team 10
  4. Interorganizational Information Systems in the Financial Sector: Background and Best Practices - Team 3
  5. Interorganizational Information Systems in the Retail Sector: Background and Best Practices - Team 15
  6. Interorganizational Information Systems in Customs Clearance: Background and Best Practices - Team 16
  7. Interorganizational Information Systems in Law Enforcement: Background and Best Practices - Team 12
  8. Interorganizational Information Systems in the Cloud: Background and Best Practices - Team 6
  9. Best Practices of Interorganizational Information Systems from a Configuration Perspective: Dyad - Team 18
  10. Best Practices of Interorganizational Information Systems from a Configuration Perspective: Hub-and-Spoke - Team 20
  11. Best Practices of Interorganizational Information Systems from a Configuration Perspective: Industry - Team 8
  12. Best Practices of Interorganizational Information Systems from a Configuration Perspective: Community
  13. From Sabre to SWIFT: Interorganizational Information Systems in Retrospect - Team 13
  14. Integration Capabilities of xxx, xxx=A Technology of your Choice (e.g. SAP Netweaver, MS BizTalk, Seeburger) - Team 21
  15. Electronic Invoice in Germany: Background and Best Practices of ZugFerd - Team 5
  16. Status Quo of Electronic Catalogue Exchange Formats in Germany - Team 14
  17. Electronic Data Exchange between Tax Authorities and Companies/ Citizens: The Elster Case - Team 17
  18. The Role of Standardization Initiatives in Interorganizational Integration: The GS1 Case - Team 9
  19. Electronic Bidding Platforms in Germany: The e-Vergabe Case - Team 11
  20. Secure E-Mail Exchange in Germany: The Case DE-Mail - Team 7
  21. Supply Chain Operations Reference Model (SCOR): Background and Best Practices - Team 2
  22. The Role of Intermediaries in Interorganizational Integration: Background and Best Practices - Team 19
  23. What to Integrate? Levels of Interorganizational Integration: Background and Best Practices
  24. Your Topic

Literature

The referenced literature complies with the assigned topic. Each student will gather and process their used references independently. If there are questions or problems in acquiring appropriate literature do not hesitate to ask us for help.

Templates

You will find related documents for the paper and the review in UniConnect! --> http://uniconnect.uct.de. If you still don't have an account, please register. In case you did not get a notification, please contact norbert.frick(at)uni-koblenz.de