Mapping Learning Outcomes with BOKSA — Digital Business Engineer
Profile
A Digital Business Engineer is a professional who connects business and IT to improve organizations with digital solutions. You will learn to align business processes and IT systems, and explore opportunities using data analysis and process modelling. By collaborating closely with stakeholders, you design, test, and translate requirements into scalable solutions. With an entrepreneurial mindset, a Digital Business Engineer helps organizations perform optimally and remain future-proof.
Description of Analysing & Advising
For a Digital Business Engineer, Analysing & Advising means systematically investigating business and IT issues and translating insights into clear, well-founded recommendations. You iteratively and methodically explore the external environment, business processes, revenue models, data and IT systems to validate, improve or identify new solutions that fit stakeholder and client requirements. Throughout this process, you maintain an investigative, critical attitude and apply relevant standards. Your advice explicitly addresses the societal and ethical impact of proposed choices and is communicated convincingly, using formats and language tailored to different target audiences.
Foundational Knowledge:
| Topic | Material in BOKSA |
|---|---|
| Research skills | Problem Analysis Requirements Analysis Literature Research |
| Advisory skills | Presenting & Pitching Delivering to the Client Communication Model Advisory Report |
| Organisational environment | DESTEP Analysis Marketing |
| Organisation | What is an Organisation Organisational Strategy Organisational Structure Key Lean Techniques |
| Financial aspects / business case | Business Case Return On Investment (ROI) |
| Data architecture | Data Analysis |
Description of Designing & Realizing
As a Digital Business Engineer you design IT-related solutions aimed at existing or new business, in alignment with stakeholders and using relevant standards and methods. Your design accounts for the (ethical) implications for stakeholders, with attention to privacy, safety, sustainability, and inclusion. You then realise and/or integrate the solution, in line with industry norms and best practices, and you test and validate it with stakeholders based on acceptance criteria.
Foundational Knowledge:
| Topic | Material in BOKSA |
|---|---|
| IT design | Wireframing & Prototyping Use Case Diagrams |
| Ethical issues | Ethics, Privacy & Inclusion by Design |
| Processes | Process Modeling (BPMN) |
| Implementation | Change Management |