The use of design thinking and an industry-standard, Business Model Canvas (BMC), allowed students to generate a succinct one-page business plan to start their entrepreneurial journey (Sarooghi et al., 2019).

Prior to the Business Analysis (IFS 231) and Systems Delivery Management (IFS 233) course redesign, the industry standard of UML (Fernández-Sáez, Chaudron & Genero, 2018) was not used. Students were also not expected to generate a Business Requirement Document (BRD) as an output although this is the minimum requirement for an entry-level Business Analyst position.

Scaffolded learning is used to ensure continuity between the IS Strategy formulation course (IFS 361) and Enterprise Architecture and Infrastructure Management (IFS 362). Students are exposed to Service Orientated Architecture as a method to implement their products and services via mobile applications prototyped in IFS 361.