COIT12203 - Workflow Analysis & Management

General Information

Unit Synopsis

Business processes are core to an organisation and its business partners for delivering products or services to customers. In this unit, you will be introduced to discovering, scoping, assessing, modelling and redesigning business processes. This unit provides you with an overview of the foundations of process modelling, process improvement and process integration. You will use techniques to analyse organisational processes and propose improvements to those processes. You will learn workflow principles and how to re-design business processes to improve efficiency. This unit will provide you with the necessary skills to develop a report that identifies business processes and recommend improvements for organisational efficiency from a process and technological perspective.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 2
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Prerequisite: (COIT11239 or COMM11003) and COIT11226

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 2 - 2024

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Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Portfolio 30%
2. Presentation 20%
3. Written Assessment 50%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 75.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 57.14% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Unit Coordinator self-reflection and students' verbal feedback
Feedback
The number of ePortfolios could be reduced.
Recommendation
Condense the ePortfolio assessment.
Action Taken
The portfolio tasks were reduced to three, and the portfolio submission was changed to the Moodle submission from Portfolium.
Source: Students via end-of-term evaluation and verbal feedback
Feedback
The 500-word requirement in the ePortfolio assessment was too obstructive to dig deep into the concepts and conceptualise key points.
Recommendation
Increase the stipulated word count for the ePortfolio assessment.
Action Taken
The word requirements in the portfolio assessment were increased up to 600 words.
Source: Unit Coordinator self-reflection
Feedback
Apart from Visio, consider other intuitive and collaborative cloud-based process mapping platforms.
Recommendation
Introduce process mapping tools, such as LucidChart.
Action Taken
Lucid, a process mapping tool, was introduced in Week 4.
Source: Students via end-of-term evaluation and verbal feedback
Feedback
Feedback on assessments was not clear.
Recommendation
Provide additional feedback on assessments.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Teaching Staff and Unit Coordinator
Feedback
Lacking coverage of new practical topics of workflow management.
Recommendation
Explore and include practical activities with industry tools (i.e. Microsoft Flow or Trello)
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Define and describe the concepts of workflow business processes in organisations, and assess their applicability
  2. Evaluate methods, tools and techniques for analysing, modelling and (re)designing business processes
  3. Apply appropriate techniques to model and interpret 'as-is' and 'to-be' process models
  4. Argue the role of business process technologies in supporting organisational business processes
  5. Identify organisational change issues that may arise owing to the implementation of new business processes
  6. Undertake a case study analysis and deliver a presentation as part of a team with an emphasis on professional communication.

The Australian Computer Society (ACS) recognises the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA). SFIA is in use in over 100 countries and provides a widely used and consistent definition of ICT skills. SFIA is increasingly being used when developing job descriptions and role profiles.

ACS members can use the tool MySFIA to build a skills profile at https://www.acs.org.au/professionalrecognition/mysfia-b2c.html

This unitcontributes to the following workplace skills as defined by SFIA (codes included):

  • Information Analysis (INAN)
  • Business Analysis (BUAN)
  • Research (RSCH)
  • Business Process Improvement (BPRE)
  • Requirements Definition and Management (REQM)
  • Business Modelling (BSMO)
  • Business Risk Management (BURM)
  • Change Management (CHMG)

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
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