Courses and projects

The objective of the course is to expand and deepen theoretical knowledge and practical methods for improving conditions for conducting business activities within organizations. The course content also supports the development of students' creative approaches. In each thematic area, emphasis is placed on integrating theoretical and practical concepts, starting with the identification of business needs and their detailed analysis, followed by process and organizational changes, and innovation management in response to identified issues within organizations. The teaching assumes the use of standard modeling methods, procedures, tools, and data analytics. 

The aim of the course is to get familiar with analytical and design models of business processes and their simulation. Moreover the course will provide basic detail insights into process modelling with the use of several diagrams like BPD, methodologies like Aris, languages like UML, and notations like BPMN 2.0, IDEF, EPC and Petri nets. Further, the students will be informed about the principles of economic systems modeling technique using software agents. The lectures will be focused on the practical use of software simulation framework MAREA, which was developed in cooperation with Silesian University in Opava and Danish company REA Technology, Copenhagen. Another used tools will be BIMP, Signavio and AnyLogic.

Business Process Management (Master)

The aim of the course is to come out from the knowledge of common business processes and to learn how to describe them, to numerate and to measure their performance by using financial and non-financial indicators, and to use modern management methods. The subject should lead the students to the use of practical analysis in the budgeting of company, to the rating of investment projects and assesment of innovations designs. 

The aim of the course is to introduce to students the information process (data/information/knowledge), the task of information system (IS) for the desicion support of companies, the technologies of IS development, their architectures, lifecycle and last but not least their quality and security. Practical part of exercises is covered by a designing of a project implementation plan with elementary artefacts following the RUP methodology. 

Research projects

COST EU, CA23120 "Religious Identity, Bullying and Wellbeing at School: A Transnational Collaboration (ORBIT)", 2024-2028

TAČR,TQ01000115 "Podnikání jako druhá kariéra neboli podnikání 2.0", 2023 - 2026

COST EU, CA18115 "Transnational Collaboration on Bullying, Migration and Integration at School Level (TRIBES)", 2020 - 2023

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Guaranted studying programs

Bachelor degree program Economics and management with specialisations in Trade and Marketing, Entrepreneurship in full-time and part-time form taught in Czech. Silesian University in Opava, School of Business Administration in Karvina, Czechia. 2021 - 2031

Bachelor degree program Economics and Management in full-time form taught in English. Silesian University in Opava, School of Business Administration in Karvina, Czechia. 2021 - 2031

Master degree program Economics and management with specialisations in Trade and Marketing; Entrepreneurship; Finance, accounting and Taxes in full-time and part-time form taught in Czech. Silesian University in Opava, School of Business Administration in Karvina, Czechia. 2021 - 2026

Master degree program Economics and Management in full-time form taught in English. Silesian University in Opava, School of Business Administration in Karvina, Czechia. 2021 - 2026

Bachelor and Master degree program Economics and management, field of study Business economics and management in full-time and part-time form. Silesian University in Opava, School of Business Administration in Karvina, Czechia. 2020 - 2023  

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Supervised disertation thesis

Ing. Sampras Femi Robert. Effective Management Strategies for Remote Work in the Czech Republic: A Comparative Study of IT and Consulting Sectors. Karvina: Silesian University in Opava, School of Business Administration, Czechia. 2024 - ongoing

Ing. Karla Foltisová. Circular economy in the fashion industry. Karvina: Silesian University in Opava, School of Business Administration, Czechia. 2023 - ongoing

Ing. et. Ing. Michal Halaška. The use of process mining for management of business processes. Karvina: Silesian University in Opava, School of Business Administration, Czechia. 2016 - 2021

Ing. Dalibor Šimek. The implementation of process management workflow system in business area. Karvina: Silesian University in Opava, School of Business Administration, Czechia. 2016 - 2021

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Reviews

Ing. Věra Pelantová, Ph.D. The maintenance of processes in organisation. Habilitation thesis. Liberec: Technical University of Liberec, Faculty of Economics, Czechia, 2018

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Habilitation commissions

Ing. Michael Kwarteng, Ph.D., Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Faculty of Management and Economics, Czechia, 2022

Ing. Veronika Svatošová, Ph.D., Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Faculty of Management and Economics, Czechia, 2021

Ing. Hana Štverková, Ph.D, MBA, LL.M., VSB-TU of Ostrava, Faculty of Economics, Czechia, 2021

Marta Starostka-Patyk, Ph.D., Silesian University in Opava, School of Business Administration, Czechia, 2019

bchodně podnikatelská fakulta, Česká republika. 2016 - 2021

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Scientific boards

Silesian University in Opava, School of Business Administration, Czechia, 2023 - 2027 (chair)

Silesian University in Opava, Czechia, 2023 - 2027 (member)

University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Faculty of Economics, Czechia, 2023 - 2027 (member)

Silesian University in Opava, School of Business Administration, Czechia, 2019 - 2023 (member)