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BUS5600 - Business case development

6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

Postgraduate Faculty of Information Technology

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2007 (Day)
South Africa Second semester 2007 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit is to provide students with the fundamentals of business improvements that will enable them to investigate, develop and present business cases. It involves learning and applying business process analysis, business modelling, business re-engineering and benchmarking concepts. Practical group projects also involve problem solving techniques, team working and the presentation of business cases towards the end of the subject. These practical cases contribute partly to the final assessment of this unit.

Assessment

Group project: 30%
Class tests: 10%
Examination (2 hours): 60%
Students must pass the examination in order to pass the unit.

Contact hours

One x 2hour lecture/week, one x 1hour tutorial/week

Prerequisites

Completion of 12 points of postgraduate level Faculty of Information Technology units

Prohibitions

BUS3600