BIPM prepares you for your next career step. While studying, you can develop your profile towards a specific job or career goal. Below, example professions are classified according to their typical set of skills (“General” refers to skills you can develop in the BIPM courses “Strategic Issues”, “Enterprise Architectures”, “IT Security and Privacy”. BI is short for “Business Intelligence”, BPM for “Business Process Management”, and PM stands for “Project Management”).
As a Business-IT Analyst you thoroughly understand the strategic business implications of IT. You know business trends as well as IT innovations, and you can identify related opportunities and risks. Based on your sound analysis, implemented solutions fit the demands of both worlds: business and IT. In your daily work, you collaborate closely with business managers (e.g. heads of departments) and with people in CIO organizations (e.g. application architects).
Your core competencies are in strategic methods, and enterprise architectures which allow you to conceptualize well-aligned business-IT improvements.
As a Data Analyst you make sense out of vast amounts of data and thus support managerial decision-making. You know how to extract and aggregate data from all sorts of company-internal as well as external sources (i.e. from the web, documents, operational databases, etc.). Based on this data, you identify hidden business contexts, risks as well as threats, and you are able to translate your mathematical results for the purposes of business decision makers. In your daily work, you operate with terms like Big Data, Hadoop, and Predictive Analytics.
Your core competencies are in BI, particularly databases, and quantitative methods which allow you to identify complex relationships between data and business behavior.
BUSINESS PROCESS ARCHITECT
As a Business Process Architect you are in charge of designing business processes. You know major business software products (like the ERP products from SAP, and Oracle), understand the interfaces between business and IT, are able to define and measure key performance indicators, and have great expertise in modeling, analyzing, and re-engineering business processes. In your daily work, you manage cross-functional teams, and supervise process implementation projects.
Your core competencies are Business Process Management (BPM), and Enterprise Architectures (EA) which allows you to contribute to the development of the overall business architecture – with a strong focus on processes.
As BI Solution Architect you develop a Business Intelligence (BI) solution. You are able to support corporate innovation by identifying new ways of applying analytics to business challenges, and you develop technical design proposals for integrating various data sources into the BI system. In your daily work, you supervise BI implementation projects and work closely with project team members from various business functions. You are also able to take on specific implementation tasks, if required.
Your core competencies are IT Architectures, and BI which allows you to contribute to the development of an overall IT architecture – with a strong focus on data and information.
As Business-IT Consultant you create valuable solutions for customers. Typically, you have developed a T-shape profile, which means that beyond strong analytical skills, and a broad understanding of Business-IT, you have gained deep expertise in one particular subject, either BPM or BI. In addition to this subject-related knowledge, you are a team player, highly service-oriented, and easily adapt to varying working environments. In your daily work, you conceptualize Business-IT solutions, and lead respective projects. You communicate a lot, present and report to the customer.
Your core competencies are in business analysis, communication, and in one particular Business/IT field of expertise.
[BUSINESS-IT] PROJECT MANGER
As Project Manager you implement tailored business-IT solutions. You have a sound understanding of business-IT, and are possibly an expert in the one or other area (e.g. BPM or BI). In any case, you are an expert in state-of-the-art project management techniques; both traditional and agile (e.g. SCRUM). You know how to write proposals for beneficial projects, plan and set up these projects, develop and lead project teams, control projects, and report to the authorities.
Besides all of this, your core competency is that you are speaking the languages of both worlds, business and IT which is vital for becoming a “honest bridging function” and implementing efficient and effective business-IT solutions.
