Introduction to the Master of
Business Informatics
Academic year
2013 - 2014
Who are we?
 Prof.dr. Sjaak Brinkkemper
– Professor and Chair of Organization & Information research
group
– Programme coordinator Master Business Informatics (MBI)
 Dr. Remko Helms
– Study Advisor/Coach MBI (R.Helms@uu.nl)
– Programme coordinator Master Business Informatics (MBI)
 Dr. Slinger Jansen
– Lecturer Introduction to MBI (slinger@slingerjansen.nl)
– Graduation coordinator
Outline
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Introduction O&I
Personal introduction
Objectives MBI Introduction course
Completion
Announcements
Utrecht University
No.52 Shanghai index, no 1 in the Netherlands
Sol Iustitiae
Illustra Nos
O&I in the UU
30.000 students,
8.500 personnel
Budget 749 million euro
Utrecht University
Medical
Arts
Pharmacy
Biology
Physics
Science
Informatics
Social
Math
Chemistry
Institute of Information and Computing Sciences
Computing
Computing Science
Science
Information Science
Organisation
and Information
5.000 students
961 freshmen
875 students,
175 personnel
15 personnel
350 students,
15 personnel
160 MSc student
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Founded in 1636
Seven faculties
178 Msc tracks
12 nobel prizes
2600 international students
Male/Female 53/47
73% of all 2yr Msc students finish
within 3 years
Research Group
Organisation and Information
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Prof: Prof.dr. Sjaak Brinkkemper
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UHD: Dr. Ronald Batenburg
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Dr.ir. Remko Helms
Dr. Slinger Jansen
Dr. Marco Spruit
Dr. Fabiano Dalpiaz
Dr. mult Jan Martijn van der Werf
Jurriaan van Reijsen
Gilbert Silvius
Ralph Foorthuis
Marlies van Steenbergen
Willem Bekkers
Naser Bakshi
Eko Handoyo
Erik Jagroep
Jaap Kabbedijk
Ravi Khadka
Ivonne Mangula
Michiel Meulendijk
Wienand Omta
Kevin Vlaanderen
Research domain:
Product Software
Product Strategy
• Product lifecycle management
• Portfolio analysis
Market trends
Requirements
Management
• Release Planning
• Marketing analysis
• International organization
• Product investment
• Resource management
Architecture/Design
Development
• Production timing
• Testing
• Defect handling
Service Strategy
• Service portfolio
• Market strategy
• Localization and customizations
Implementation
Services
Delivering
• Beta and Launch
• Documentation
• Config. management
• Training
• Installation
• Customer service
Software
Satisfied customer
Development
perspective
Organization
perspective
Corporate Strategy
Who are you?
 What is your name?
 What is your background?
 Why MBI?
 What’s on your bunch of keys?
Objectives of Intro2MBI
 Getting acquainted with the
complete MBI program
 Creation of personal study plan
 Proper integration of students from
Utrecht University with those from
other universities
Session 0 (today!)
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Welcome – Sjaak
Introduction Group O&I
Short introduction of students
Explanation of course Intro MBI
Q and A
Session 1
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Explanation about study plan
Preparation work for MBI courses
Summer schools
Courses outside ICS
Courses outside of the NL
Session 2
 MBI Profiles
– Entrepreneur
– Technical consultant
– Business consultant
– Researcher
 Graduation procedures
 Student website and data
Session 3
 Course Introductions
Session 4
 How to write a paper?
Session 5
 Presentation of personal profiles
Note: All lecturers are welcome to
attend this session.
Session 6
 Presentation of personal profiles
Note: All lecturers are welcome to
attend this session.
Session 7
 Presentation of personal profiles
Note: All lecturers are welcome to
attend this session.
Session 8 (?)
 Drinks (17.00)
Completion
1. study plan
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approved by Dr. Remko Helms.
presentation about your personal
plans
2. student webpage
3. data in student directory is
correct and complete
Integrity
3 years tops!
 We strongly recommend all students to graduate in
three years
 Don’t waste any time!
 Timesinks
– Useless internships
– Jobs
– Jobs
– Jobs
– Entrepreneurial adventures
– …
Your first time period
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Introduction to Business Informatics: mandatory (only 1 ECTS,
as part of the 45ECTS grad project)
KM: starts soon!
WO: Deficiency, useful course nonetheless
ICT-E & ICT-A: Can only take it next year
Announcements
 Next lecture MBI introduction
course: This Wednesday!
 Take a look at the course website:
http://www.cs.uu.nl/docs/vakken/spmb
i/index.htm
Some URLs
 MBI –program:
 O&I group:
http://www.businessinformatics.nl/
http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/OI/
 Education pages (studiegids):
http://www.cs.uu.nl/education/
 Studying abroad:
http://www.uu.nl/EN/informationfor/students/education/study
abroad/whywhere/Pages/default.aspx
 Library ICS:
http://www.uu.nl/EN/library/disciplines/science/information_s
ciences/Pages/default.aspx
 Look for ‘Utrecht University’ and ‘Uithof’ in
Wikipedia