The course focuses on collaboration, collaborative work and modern collaboration tools in a business environment. Students will apply their knowledge in a hands-on collaboration project with partners.

Topics:

• Understand the concepts of collaboration and collaborative work
• Learn how IT can be used in order to support collaboration
• Learn about the potentials and limits about collaboration technology
• Learn about investment decisions of organizations regarding collaboration technology
• Experience collaboration with team members from other countries

Collaborative Business is an evolving topic in the area of Information Systems. It supports flexible cooperation and enables new modes of value creation in loosely coupled networks. Furthermore, collaboration can be a source of process innovation and value creation throughout a company.

In this module students are introduced to concepts of inter- and intraorganizational collaboration and cooperation.

Besides theoretical concepts of communication and collaboration, the students are brought in touch with state-of-the-art collaboration technology. They are motivated to experience these tools in praxis and are guided through a collaboration experience.

Virtual teams are formed and perform collaboration tasks throughout the whole semester.

The module integrates theoretical knowledge and practical skills based on an interactive seminar that includes a hands-on collaboration project.

The e-learning platform Moodle will be used throughout the course for the dissemination of course material and discussions.

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The course focuses on conceptual principles, implementation and operations of Business Intelligence solutions, based on SAP NetWeaver BW, SAP BusinessObjects and SAP HANA. The main learning outcomes are:

Topics:

• Conceptual foundation
• The Data Warehouse theory
• In-Memory column based solutions
• Market overview
• SAP NetWeaver BW Data Modeling & ETL
• SAP Business Explorer
• Query
• Front End Tools
• SAP BusinessObjects Front End Tools
• In Memory Computing with SAP HANA

The module integrates theoretical knowledge and practical skills based on an interactive lecture that includes teaching cases.

The e-learning platform Moodle will be used throughout the course for the dissemination of course material and discussions.

Process management refers to the operation, improvement and innovation of business processes. The course covers fundamental frameworks, models, and methods in process management.

Topics:

• Business process operation
• Business process change
• Strategic alignment
• Governance
• Quality management
• Six sigma
• Process management skills
• Organizational culture

The module integrates theoretical knowledge and practical skills with the following components:

• Lecture with interactive elements and teaching cases
• Seminar based on a real-world case

The e-learning platform Moodle will be used throughout the course for the dissemination of course material and discussions.

Further information for writing the master thesis

Please note the following deadlines:

• Submission of the signed thesis proposal (Exposé) until 1st of Oct. (winter term) / 1st of March (summer term) to the secretary at the Institute of Information Systems

• Presentation in the colloquium (one month before final submission of thesis latest; Dates can be found in the course description "Colloquium")

• Deadline for submission of master's thesis (to be handed in at the central service desk): 1st of February (winter term)/ 10th of August (summer term) or next working day during the opening times of the central service desk (http://www.uni.li/Universit%C3%A4t/ServicesZentraleDienste/ZentraleServiceStelle/tabid/141/language/en-US/Default.aspx)
• The already scheduled dates of the commencement ceremony can be found in the menu bar on the left

In case of any questions please contact the module director.

The Study and Examination Regulations and the Guidelines for Academic Work contain the necessary regulations. >>Link

Please consider especially the following aspects:

• The thesis proposal is written in accordance with the supervisor and the co-supervisor. Both should be team members of the institute of information systems. External supervisors (e.g. of the student's employer) are usually integrated as an additional practical supervisor. In this case there are a supervisor, co-supervisor and a practical supervisor involved in a thesis project. An external co-supervisor can be agreed in exceptional cases only (please check with the administration office of the institute if a personal data sheet is necessary for this person).

• The official editing time is defined on the thesis proposal and may not exceed 22 weeks. A shorter editing time is possible.

• While editing the master's thesis a colloquium with the supervisor must be held.

• The dates and deadlines given in this module description are the last possible dates for the adhering presentation and defense. Thesis submissions made after these deadlines are presented at the following date for presentation and defense.

• The registration for the commencement ceremony is handled by the study administration. Dates of the commencement ceremony are given in the menu bar located on the left / topic commencement ceremony

The evaluation of the master thesis will be published a few days before the final presentation.

This course is designed to give first year PhD Students an aid for their academic endeavour. Just like in Research Design, the focus lies on methodological competences. At the same time, however, this course also aims at techniques rather than design strategies. The objective is to provide core compentences on how to craft a scientific text properly. Due to the concept of peer-monitoring applied in this course also social competencies will be trained.

During the first year students will be working on their academic writing style, they will be made familiar with normative writing styles and ways to publish tackling various kinds of genres, and they will help and learn from each other through peer-monitoring activities. As a base sample texts will be used and the texts students will be producing will be worked on. The course is built on four pillars:

• Text Coaching:
  How to write academically: spelling, grammar, academic vocabulary, numbers, abbreviations, tables, figures, etc.
• Knowledge Management:
  Working with databases, literature management softwares, etc.
• Publishing:
  How to write and publish various genres: abstracts, research papers, articles, data commentaries, reviews, project proposals, formatting, etc.
• Peer-Mentoring:
  Giving and receiving feed-back, presenting and reviewing, considering peer-feedback, joint writing activities, etc.

During the course, students will maintain a blog which they will be feeding with weekly entries about their research activities and they will comment on two other PhD Students' blogs. This way, they will structure their thoughts and ideas and it will stimulate transparency and exchange about what they individually and what peer-students are working on. This will help learning how to give and receive feed-back, and it will be monitored by supervisors helping in giving individualised feed-back.

At the end of the course students will hand in a portfolio containing all the texts they have written and the blog entries and comments they will have made.

During the course, plenary speakers will be invited from various fields organising a workshop with students on particular issues of academic writing in genre-specific areas.

Workshops, one-on-one and think-pair-share sessions, individual and guided e-learning.

Students will be acquainted with principles of academic writing, normative writing, publishing, and peer-mentoring.

By the end of the course they will be able to make use of academic vocabulary, they will be able to discuss texts, tables, charts, and figures, and they will be sensitised about their personal and academic command of the English language.

They will be familiar with reference management systems, working with databases, formatting written texts, and academic values.

They will know principles of certain academic genres, like abstracts, research papers, articles, data commentaries, reviews, project proposals, etc.

They will be able to give and consider peer-feed-back, present and review, and they will be able to carry out joint writing activities, etc.

Assessment modalities split up into the three parts "Text Discussion" (1), "Participation in Discussions" (2), "Regular Blog Updates" (3).

The parts are specified as follows:

1. Text Discussion:
Each participant engages actively into a 45-minute-text-discussion-phase about a text of a fellow student; Each participant delivers a text to be discussed jointly.

2. Each participant must at least take part into the discussion of five texts.

3. Each participant must blog once a week and deliver at least two peer-feedbacks on other fellow students' blogs once a week.

>Spoken and written communicative competence in various every day situations.
>Cultural competence

Interactive teaching

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