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Reengineering a university department

Christopher Derek Curry Jyrki Katajainen

Abookonorganizationaldesign

Inthebook“Reengineeringauniversitydepartment”,authoredbyChristopherDerekCurryandJyrkiKatajainen,thebusinessprocessesofthecomputingdepartmentattheUniversityofCopenhagenareconsidered.Themainfocusisontheeducationalpartofthebusinessdoneatthedepartment.Thetopicscoveredarebusinessmodelling,requirementanalysis,andorganizationaldesignincludingtheinformationtechnologyneeded.Thewholedesignisbasedonthefundamentalideaofusingthetheoryofpsychologicaltypesinthedefinitionofsystemrequirements.

Thebookprojectwastriggeredbythebusinessproblemsexperiencedatthedepartment:highdropoutrate,longstudytimes,criticsfromstudents,budgetcuts,inadequateresearchfunding,braindrain,andweakmanagementstructure.Asapossibleremedyfortheseproblems,avisionaryplanhowtoreengineerthemostsignificantbusinessprocessesofthedepartmentisgiven.True,manyoftheproblemsaredifficultanddeeplyrootedinhistory,buttheworldwouldstopwithoutambitiousattemptsatsolvingthem.

Wehopethatthose,whowillreadthebook,

achieveacompetitiveadvantagewhentheirownteachingprocessesaretobeimprovedand

getabetterunderstandingoftheneedsanddemandsoftheirstudents.

Toreadmore,gotothehomepageforthisbook

http://www.diku.dk/∼jyrki/bpr/

Foundationoftheorganizationaldesign

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