Applied Business Intelligence in the Making: An Inter-University Case from Swedish Higher Education

There has long been a debate regarding the inclusion of IT into the curriculum for business students. With IT being a natural part of their coming working environment, the under-developed use of for instance Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Business Intelligence (BI) solutions has suffered much critique. As a response to this, the Centre for Business Solutions and the Scandinavian Academic Network for Teaching Enterprise Systems (SANTE) have created a joint initiative together with the industry. Through making the full accounts from a medium-sized manufacturing company available to the students through a specially designed BI solution, the students are given the task to identify potential problems with the accounts. The assignment is intended to be run in the form of a competition, where the students from different Swedish universities compete in analyzing the company in a given time-frame. The purpose of this case is to present the outline and outset for the competition, together with some initial reflections on the setup-phase.

Authors and Affiliations

1. Centre for Business Solutions, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

   Urban Ask, Johan Magnusson & Håkan Enquist

2. Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

   Gustaf Juell-Skielse

Editors and Affiliations

1. Department of Information Systems, Poznań University of Economics, Al. Niepodległości 10, 61-875, Poznań, Poland

   Witold Abramowicz  & Dominik Flejter  & 

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