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Developing Business Process Management Capabilities of Undergraduate IT Students

by Muhammad Anwar-ur-rehman Pasha
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 53 - Number 17
Year of Publication: 2012
Authors: Muhammad Anwar-ur-rehman Pasha
10.5120/8517-2565

Muhammad Anwar-ur-rehman Pasha . Developing Business Process Management Capabilities of Undergraduate IT Students. International Journal of Computer Applications. 53, 17 ( September 2012), 45-50. DOI=10.5120/8517-2565

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author = { Muhammad Anwar-ur-rehman Pasha },
title = { Developing Business Process Management Capabilities of Undergraduate IT Students },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { September 2012 },
volume = { 53 },
number = { 17 },
month = { September },
year = { 2012 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 45-50 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume53/number17/8517-2565/ },
doi = { 10.5120/8517-2565 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
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Abstract

In recent years, Business Process Management (BPM) has emerged as an effective management strategy and an efficient technological solution for managing cross-functional business processes. Software industry is striving to integrate more and more functionalities in their BPM products. For this, the industry needs professionals who are equipped with BPM capabilities. However, lack of appropriate BPM skilled professionals in the field is a commonly reported problem. Keeping in view the importance of BPM knowledge & skills, a course of BPM is offered to IT undergraduate students to promote their process management capabilities. This longitudinal study, spread over fours semesters, has found that BPM knowledge and skills have strong connections with the IT curriculum and offering of BPM course to undergraduate students can strengthen their BPM capabilities. However, keeping in view the rapidly evolving nature of BPM field and associated technologies, the study identifies the need of standardized curriculum guidelines, to be developed in collaboration with academia and industry, to help the academic institutions to prepare students according to the needs of the employment market. It is believed the recommendations and the lessons learnt in this study may be useful for those who are seeking to strengthen their students' business process capabilities.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Teaching of Business Process Management Inherited relationship between BPM and IT Scope of BPM BPM education BPM Scope

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