Diana Bednarčíková
Ing. Diana Bednarčíková, PhD.
Ing. Diana Bednarčíková, PhD. works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Management, Comenius University Bratislava, where she is engaged in teaching and research activities.
She completed her university education at the Faculty of Business Management, University of Economics in Bratislava, where she completed her Ing. studies in the study programme Corporate Finance. She continued her doctoral studies at the University of Economics in Bratislava at the Department of Information Management, Faculty of Business Management, which she completed in 2024 by successfully defending her dissertation entitled “IT Service Management in Selected Enterprises”.
In terms of her professional career, she has worked in the private, public, and academic sectors. She has gained professional experience in the fields of banking and finance, corporate risk management, information technology, enterprise information systems and SAP, process analysis, and process management. She has also been engaged in training and educational activities in the fields of information technology and information systems for many years, including the training of users of public administration information systems. Alongside her academic work, she continues to be actively involved in professional practice, particularly in the fields of information technology, business management, and consulting.
In 2023, she completed a professional internship at the Permanent Mission of the Slovak Republic to the OECD in Paris, where she focused on the areas of digitalisation, entrepreneurship, and small and medium-sized enterprises. She participated in meetings, sessions of OECD committees and the OECD Council, OECD expert events, and internal meetings of the Permanent Mission of the Slovak Republic to the OECD. Her activities also included participation in the delegation of the Slovak Republic to the OECD SME and Entrepreneurship Ministerial Meeting 2023, as part of which she actively contributed to the preparation of expert materials on behalf of the Slovak Republic.
She is currently an associate member of itSMF Slovakia and a member of Technical Committee TK 37 – Information Technologies of the Slovak Office of Standards, Metrology and Testing, which operates at the national level in the field of technical standardisation of information technologies.
Her research activities focus on the field of information technology, particularly IT Governance, IT Service Management (ITSM), digitalisation and the digital transformation of enterprises, and the use and integration of digital technologies in enterprises and business processes, including artificial intelligence. Her research also focuses on small and medium-sized enterprises and the fields of process and project management. She publishes the results of her research activities in scientific journals and conference proceedings and presents them at national and international scientific conferences.
Publication activity:
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Selected Most Significant Publications:
· Digital transformation in the context of the European Union and the use of digital technologies as a tool for business sustainability / Bednarčíková, Diana [Autor, 50%] ; Repiská, Radka [Autor, 50%] ; Current problems of the corporate sector 2021, 18 [20.05.2021, Bratislava, Slovensko]. – [recenzované]. – DOI 10.1051/shsconf/202111501001.
Integration of digital technologies into business processes: companies in Slovak Republic in the context of global development and the current state in the European Union / Romanová, Anita [Autor, 50%] ; Bednarčíková, Diana [Autor, 50%] ; IBIMA conference 2021, 37 [30.05.2021-31.05.2021, Cordoba, Španielsko]. – [recenzované].
· Artificial intelligence ako súčasť digitálnych technológií využívaných v digitálnej transformácii podnikov = Artificial Intelligence as a Part of Digital Technologies Used in the Digital Transformation of Enterprises / Bednarčíková, Diana [Autor, 50%] ; Romanová, Anita [Autor, 50%] ; International scientific conference COMPETITION, 13 [11.11.2021-12.11.2021, Jihlava, Česko].
· Digital technologies in companies: Comparison of their use in the Slovak Republic and in selected countries / Bednarčíková, Diana [Autor, 50%] ; Romanová, Anita [Autor, 50%]. – [recenzované]. – DOI 10.5171/2022.336494.
In: Journal of software and systems development [elektronický dokument] : JSSD. – Montgomery (USA) : IBIMA publishing. – ISSN 2166-0824. – Roč. 2022 (2022), art.no. 336494, s. 1-22 [online]
· Integration of digital technology RPA as a tool for business process transformation in the context of industry 4.0 / Bednarčíková, Diana [Autor, 50%] ; Gažová, Andrea [Autor, 50%] ; The Poprad economic and management forum 2025, 6 [05.12.2025, Poprad, Slovensko]. – [recenzované]. – DOI 10.1007/978-3-032-24048-4_35. – SCO.
Project Activities:
Principal Investigator:
2025-2026 IGS1_2025_005 Digitálne technológie v malých a stredných podnikoch
2024 Projekt mladých IG EU I-24-109-00 - Zmeny v podnikateľských reáliách a transformácie podnikania integráciou nástrojov umelej inteligencie
2022 Projekt mladých EU I-22-111-00 - Manažment informačných technológií v podnikateľských subjektoch
2021 Projekt mladých EU I-21-105-00 - Digitalizácia podnikov a aplikovanie digitálnych technológií v podnikových procesoch
Co-Investigator:
2025 – 2028 APVV-24-0607 Tvorba viacdimenzionálnych modelov na hodnotenie pripravenosti firiem na AI a adopcie AI technológií vo väzbe na Stratégiu digitálnej transformácie Slovenska 2030
2025 VEGA 1/0614/23 Companies' readiness for the challenges associated with Industry 4.0 from the perspective of business processes and process management
2024 VEGA 1/0520/24 Aspekty budovania ambientného ekosystému podniku
2023 - 2024 VEGA 1/0662/23 Digitálna transformácia podnikov a ich pripravenosť na integrovanie prvkov Priemyslu 5.0
2023 Projekt mladých EU I-23-103-00 - Kariérne a kvalifikačné voľby mladých ľudí smerujúce k výberu špecializácie na informačné technológie
2020 – 2022 VEGA V-20-176-00 - Manažment IT v podnikoch v SR: medzinárodné štandardy a normy verzus individuálne podnikové procesy
Courses and Certifications:
2026 PRINCE2 Project Management Foundation (Version 7) - PeopleCert
2026 ITIL Intro (Version 5) - TAYLLOR & COX Slovensko a.s.
2026 Kybernetické vzťahy v kybernetickej bezpečnosti - Competence Centre for Cybersecurity Regulation, Privacy Protection and Cybercrime (CUSEC)
2026 M_o_R® Intro- TAYLLOR & COX Slovensko a.s.
2025 ITIL 4 Intro -TAYLLOR & COX Slovensko a.s.
2025 PRINCE2® Intro -TAYLLOR & COX Slovensko a.s.
2024 Systémová dynamika – SCIENCE DYNAMICS Praha
2020 Pedagogický kurz - CERGE-EI Foundation
2019 Kurz podnikateľských zručností - Slovak Business Agency
2015 OMEGA - podvojné účtovníctvo - Kros, a.s.
2015 Štátna skúška z písania na počítači a korešpondencie – NHF Ekonomickej univerzity v Bratislave
2013-2015 Cvičná firma - Štátny inštitút odborného vzdelávania
Contacts and Links to Profiles and Social Media:
tel.: +421 2 9021 2138
Adress: Odbojárov 10, 820 05 Bratislava (office door number: 12, FMUK annex)
e-mail: diana.bednarcikovauniba.sk
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianabednarcikova
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Diana-Bednarcikova
Teaching Activities in the Following Courses:
Managerial Economics | 1st year, Bachelor's degree programme |
Project Management | 2st year, Bachelor's degree programme |
Controlling | 3st year, Bachelor's degree programme |
Topics of Offered Theses
As part of her thesis supervision, she focuses on topics in the fields of information technology, digitalisation and digital technologies, process and project management, and their application in business management.
Currently Supervised These:
· Application of Digital Technologies in Project Management
· Integration of Digital Technologies for Improving Business Processes
· Mapping and Optimisation of Business Processes in IT Management
· Implementation of the ITIL Framework in Business Management