Prof. Dr. Martin Bichler (TUM)

WS 2024/25
Seminar
IT und Unternehmensberatung (IN2079)

About this seminar

In this seminar, industry partners from well-known consulting firms will give insights into the work of a consulting agent. You will not only learn theory but get hands-on experiences: Every two weeks, there will be case studies which you analyse in groups. For one of them, you will share your insights with fellow students during a presentation. Additionally, you will be granted feedback by the industry professionals.

Intention and learning goals

• Participants understand the essential processes of IT consulting and their interdependences.
• Participants are able to discuss the strategic decissions of IT management and their implications.
• Participants know typical problems of realizing IT counselling and can suggest appropriate solution concepts.

Presenters and Topics*

* may be subject to change

Grading

At the beginning of the seminar, students will be assigned into small groups. Every group needs to hand in solutions to all four case studies during the semester. We expect you to submit presentation slides.
During each of the four presentation lessons, 2-3 groups present their results such that every group gets to present once. The presentation should take 13-15 minutes.

Usually, you will have a little less than two weeks for each case study. Be aware that this seminar thus requires you to work in teams during the whole semester! You will be graded as a group.

The final grade is composed as follows:

1. The hand-in solutions for all case studies are weighted by a factor of 0.7.
2. The presentation is weighted by a factor of 0.3.

Organization

Time & place

The seminar will take place on Mondays, 8:30 am - noon, in a (roughly) biweekly repetition starting from October 21, 2023. You can find the exact dates at the end of this page.
It will take place in our seminar room in Garching, room MI 01.10.011 of the department for mathematics and informatics.

In-person attendance to every session is mandatory. In execptional cases, you can justify in advance that you cannot make it to some session by contacting Fabian R. Pieroth.

Moodle course

We primarily communicate via moodle. Please make sure to check regularly for new announcements and/or ensure that you are receiving mail notifications for these.

Slides are provided during the lecture and will be made available on the seminar's moodle page. Case studies are also provided on moodle - where you will hand in your solutions, too.

Application

The seminar is highly requested and limited to 40 participants. Being a compulsory elective course in Information Systems (M.Sc.), students from this program are granted preferential treatment, especially if they are in high semesters. Remaining seats are distributed among students of other master programs.

Requirements

We expect basic knowledge of data bases, statistical analysis and machine learning (see e.g. IN2031, IN2028, IN008).

Application window and process

The application is only possible in TUMonline, starting September 29 until October 7.

Students who are not enrolled in the master program "Information Systems": Please send a short email to Fabian R. Pieroth (fabian.pieroth@tum.de) with the following content and title "[ITUB-Application] <your name>" within one day of your registration via TUMonline.

1. Name and registration number
2. Study program and semester (in that program)
3. Up-to-date CV
4. Up-to-date transcript of records
5. Motivation (3-4 sentences)
6. Acknowledgement that you have read the notes on required expertise and obligatory attendance, as well as your approval that you match these requirements and are able to fulfill them.

Acceptance & rejection

Among all valid applications, seats will be distributed according to the above mentioned criteria. The decision will be made available in the week before the lecture period starts (ca. October 9). You will be automatically enrolled in the moodle course if your application was successful.

Dates and preliminary topics*

* The final topics will be shared in the first session.