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

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2022 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 90.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 40.00% 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: Moodle site
Feedback
Great to have reminders about the upcoming assessment tasks
Recommendation
Continue sending emails to all students a week before the assessment due date
Action Taken
Regular messages were sent to students advising them of the assessment dates and upcoming tasks via Moodle's Announcement forum.
Source: Self-reflection
Feedback
Ideas from brainstorming sessions can be better structured
Recommendation
Introduce a concept mapping tool for better structuring of requirements
Action Taken
Miro, a popular concept mind mapping tool, was introduced in Week 3.
Source: Unit Coordinator self-reflection and students' verbal feedback
Feedback
The number of ePortfolios could be reduced.
Recommendation
Condense the ePortfolio assessment.
Action Taken
Nil.
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
Nil.
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
Nil.
Unit learning Outcomes
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