Reference no: EM133809778 , Length: word count:2500
Leveraging IT Advantage for Managers
Purpose of the assessment:
1. Critically evaluate how technology can enable an organisation's core business processes and support the strategic goals.
2. Analyse and comprehend the issues that arise with the acquisition and adoption of technology and recommend possible solutions.
3. Critically evaluate the ways in which information technology can contribute to organisational innovation, efficiency and overall corporate performance.
Critically analyzing and evaluating key issues and challenges in recent IS technologies and how they can be acquired and contribute to business core processes.
Instruction: For this assignment students will be divided into small groups (the size will depend on class size), and each group will select a specific technology/ topic to research. Get your answer now!
The research topic you select must be directly relevant to IT in Business. A list of possible topics is provided in the attachment.
Group Case Study Report (2500 words)
Each group will then be required to research a real-life company and write a case study report. The case study must be directly relevant to the selected research topic.
From a broad perspective, a case study is an in-depth analysis of a particular subject. Generally, the study covers a problem-solution-results format. When applied to this unit, a case study examines how a real-life company had a problem, found a solution using a particular information technology, and shares the results of the solution.
The following eight elements must be included in your case study report:
Executive Summary/Synopsis
Introduction
introduce the selected company, including the background and any previous studies of the issue (literature review); briefly describe the key problem and its significance
Challenges
explain the challenge the selected company faced before using the presented technology;
Discussion
discuss how the selected company found the presented technology;
discuss the selected company's decision process and the steps they
went through before discovering the solution
Implementation
explain how the solution was implemented; discuss if the implementation meets the expectations, and who was involved in the implementation process
Conclusion
conclude your case study with the end results; sum up the main points from the challenges, discussion and recommendations
Recommendations
provide proposals for future action to solve the problem or improve the situation
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