Aligning Business Engineering Education with Contemporary Industry Requirements
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.12695/ajtm.2019.12.3.5Keywords:
business engineering, competence, employability, domain expertise.Abstract
Abstract. Business Engineering emerged as an academic discipline almost a century ago in response to economic demand for experts with both business and engineering expertise. The discipline has since evolved to meet the needs of the fast changing global marketplace. The impact of globalization on the architecture, governance and running of organizations has also shaped the field today. Education has responded to these changes by adapting its architecture and governance to fit international needs. This study examines the case of ESB Business School, Reutlingen University as an example of how business engineering education has been forced to adapt its architecture and governance to fit international needs in the field. Close collaboration with global academic and corporate partners has enabled the school to integrate multiple international components into its business engineering curricula. However, the overall goal remains to ensure that the business engineering education provided is aligned with the global requirements coming from industry. This exploratory industry-driven study tackles this challenge. Qualitative interviews with company representatives of international companies as well as a global industry survey were conducted to examine what study programs and what graduate skill-set are most commonly sought after by industry in different regions of the world.
Keywords: Business engineering, competence, employability, domain expertise
Downloads
References
Brettel, M., Dittmann, U., Englberger, H., Hirschhausen, C. V., Leipnitz-Ponto, Y., Olsowski, G., ... & Schuchardt, C. (2014). Qualifikationsrahmen Wirtschaft-singenieurwesen. [Qualification framework for industrial engineering]. Pforzheim: FFBT Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen e.V.
Caron, J. R., Jarvenpaa, S. L., & Stoddard, D. B. (1994). Business reengineering at CIGNA Corporation: experiences and lessons learned from the first five years. Mis Quarterly, 18(3), 233-250.
CHE. (2018). CHE Hochschulranking 2018: Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen. Retrieved July 30, 2019, from https://ranking.zeit.de-/che/de/
Corlett, J. (2018). IABEP. Retrieved October 1, 2019 from https://www.iabep.org/
Creswell, J. W., & Creswell, J. D. (2017). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches. Sage publications.
ESB Business School (2015). BE in SEA: making business engineering happen in South East Asia. Unpublished manuscript, grant proposal accepted by German Academic Exchange Service.
Österle, H. (2013). Business Engineering. Prozeß-und Systementwicklung: Band 1: Entwurfstechniken. [Business engineering. Process and system development: Volume 1: Design techniques.]. Springer-Verlag.
Reutlingen University (2013). Export programm “International Operations and Logistics Management”. Unpublished manuscript, grant proposal accepted by German Academic Exchange Service.
Simatupang, T. M., Utama, A. A., & Mulyono, N. B. (2017). The Disciplinary Nature of Business Engineering. International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, 12(23), 13365-13373.
Zadek, H., & Risse, I. (2003). Führungskräfte für eine integriertes Management. [Leaders for integrated management]. Springer-Verlag.
Downloads
Submitted
Accepted
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright @2017. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial used, distribution and reproduction in any medium
