Business Process Analysis
(field of studies: Information Management)

Bachelor's - engineer

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⇑Business Process Analysis at PJATK

Field of studies: Information Management

Language: English Studies in English

Subject area: economy and administration

Kind of studies: full-time studies

Description:
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University website: www.pja.edu.pl/en/

⇑Why choose the Business Process Analysis specialisation at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology?

Dlaczego warto studiować w Polsko-Japońskiej Akademii Technik Komputerowych

Why study it:

Programme: analysing and improving processes
Specialisation: thesis topics
After graduation: consulting and IT projects

Business Process Analysis is a specialisation within the Information Management programme at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology (PJAIT). It is for you if you like to look at how an organisation works and to find ways to make it work better.

Programme: analysing and improving processes

You learn to analyse the conditions under which business processes are carried out, and to design and verify their improvement and optimisation. The specialisation gives you substantive knowledge of how organisations are structured and how their processes are modelled, together with Business Intelligence issues and the ability to use this knowledge in practice. You choose it in the fifth semester of full-time studies.

Specialisation: thesis topics

Thesis topics show the direction: the role of business analysis in ensuring the quality of IT projects, and the use of business process analysis in organisations to improve the efficiency of IT solutions.

After graduation: consulting and IT projects

You are prepared to work in consulting companies, in positions such as:

business analyst, especially in companies implementing IT projects for enterprises
requirements engineer in IT projects
process or product engineer
process organiser
quality engineer

Based on the programme pages at pja.edu.pl.

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Analysis

Analysis is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts in order to gain a better understanding of it. The technique has been applied in the study of mathematics and logic since before Aristotle (384–322 B.C.), though analysis as a formal concept is a relatively recent development.

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Business

Business is the activity of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling goods or services. Simply put, it is "any activity or enterprise entered into for profit. It does not mean it is a company, a corporation, partnership, or have any such formal organization, but it can range from a street peddler to General Motors." The term is also often used colloquially (but not by lawyers or public officials) to refer to a company, but this article will not deal with that sense of the word.

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Process

A process is a set of activities that interact to achieve a result.

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Business

An artisan busies himself with his work for three hours each day and spends nine hours in study.

Maimonides, Treatise 3: “The Study of the Torah,” Chapter 1, Section 12, H. Russell, trans. (1983), p. 52

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Business

I never can make out how it is that a knight-errant does not expect to be paid for his trouble, but a peddler-errant always does.

John Ruskin, The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic, War (1866), p. 127.

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Analysis

A great part of the progress of formal thought... has been due to the invention of what we may call stenophrenic, or short-mind, symbols. These... disengage the mind from the consideration of ponderous and circuitous mechanical operations and economise its energies for the performance of new and unaccomplished tasks of thought. And the advancement of those sciences has been most notable which have made the most extensive use of these... Here mathematics and chemistry stand pre-eminent. The ancient Greeks... even admitting that their powers were more visualistic than analytic, were yet so impeded by their lack of short-mind symbols as to have made scarcely any progress whatever in analysis. Their arithmetic was a species of geometry. They did not possess the sign for zero, and also did not make use of position as an indicator of value. ...The historical calculations of Archimedes, his approximation to the value of π, etc., owing to this lack of appropriate... symbols, entailed enormous and incredible labors, which, if they had been avoided, would... have led to [even] great[er] discoveries.

Thomas J. McCormack, "Joseph Louis Lagrange. Biographical Sketch" (1898) in his translation of Joseph Louis Lagrange, Lectures on Elementary Mathematics (1898); 2nd edition (1901) p. vii.

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