FINA0008-2

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

	Master in business engineering (120 ECTS)	5 crédits

Lecturer

Didier Van Caillie

Language(s) of instruction

English language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

In an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment, companies must seek to maximize their impact and the results (financial and societal) they generate, but must also seek to minimize the consequences of the internal and external risks that weigh on them.

This course focuses on this second objective:

first, it presents the techniques, tools and methods that allow, in a logic of integrated risk management (Enterprise Risk Management logic), to identify risks, to characterize them, to measure their criticality and to act proactively on them in order to mitigate their effects or to transfer their consequences;
Secondly, it presents the techniques, tools and methods that enable an organization to become resilient (= to be able to face any undesirable event, whatever its nature) by building a resilient system based on a just safety culture.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

Gaining the knowledge and understanding of one of the following fields: performance management systems, resilience engineering and risk management and being able to mobilize them in order to solve concrete management problems or cases
Capacity to research autonomously and methodically the information needed to solve a complex, transversal management problem, to perform a rigorous analysis of it and to suggest pertinent solutions
Understanding and being capable of using modelization methods in the fields of performance management and risk management when seeking a solution for a concrete management problem
Providing concrete solutions to a management problem, integrating a dimension of technology, innovation or production
Being capable of professional team work
Developing leadership through the group work and through the use of the EFQM Model as a reference for work.
Developing a critical sense (arguing)
Developing a transversal, global vision
Creative conception of solutions
Professional capacity for oral and written communication
Faced with a management problem, suggesting solutions that are ethical and socially responsible and that respect the principles of good governance

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Prerequisites (basics and principles) :

Management accounting
Management control
Business Modeling, Control & Planning

Warning :
The course is taught in English (individual presentations, works and supports) BUT you must be possibly perfectly fluent in French (active & passive) in order to realize interviews in the organization which is analysed during the course. This ability is considered as acquired by the student and is not verified at the start of the course. However, if not acquired, this may induce a very poor final personal evaluation.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Each student makes 2 presentations:

The first one, done individually, deals with a chapter of the reference book dedicated to the process and tools of integrated risk management

The second, given in pairs, is a synthesis of a major scientific contribution on resilience engineering as applied in the industrial world.

At the same time, the pair will put into practice the tools, techniques and methods seen in the course in order to carry out :

a structured questionnaire for an organizational audit allowing to carry out an integrated mapping of the risks in an organization with a high level of expected reliability
a structured questionnaire to test the robustness of one of the four traditional components of organizational resilience
then to test it ("Proof of Concept") in a real organization

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Blended learning

Additional information:

The course is organized in 6 sessions of 3 hours eacb. Each session is dedicated to the presentation of the different tools used during the course and in debriefing sessions allowing to follow-up your work in the firm. The planning and the location are available in the section "Timetables" on the official Website dedicated to the Master in Business Engineering program.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

For any question, please contact :

Prof. Didier Van Caillie : d.vancaillie@uliege.be
Mme Louise Colling : louise.colling@uliege.be

Contacts

Teacher : Prof. Didier Van Caillie, d.vancaillie@uliege.be

Resilience Engineering