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CMPT 641 Digital Transformation - University Canada West
Assignment - Trends in IT for Business
Situation:
You are a member of a consultant team. Your team has analyzed the current state of organization A and prepared a proposal for the transformation. Now you are ready to present your proposal.
As a non-tech staff, I work in organization A and I am assigned to provide you with information about organization A during your analysis and assess your transformation proposal. I expect your team to give guidance on business opportunities and threats related to new trends in digital technologies that are relevant and useful for my organization.
We can follow the following steps during this collaboration.
Step Description
1 Understanding the organization A
2 Undereating the new trends in digital technologies
3 Understanding the organization again with the view of the selected digital technologies
4 Analyzing the current state of the organization
5 Preparing the transformation proposal
6 Presenting the transformation proposal
Information about organization A
Statement
1 Organization A started its operation in the year 2013.
2 The vision for the organization is to be a sustainable leader in the global marketplace providing high-tech interior design service.
3 The organization has decided to extend its market in the commercial section.
The organization knows that demand for smart products in high-tech interior design is increasing in the commercial section.
4 A is a global organization with over 1000 employees spread across 10 locations in 5 countries. A has some active customer worksites.
5 A has all general departments like sales, customer services, IT, etc.
A has departments for home design, commercial design and software development.
6 A has all general work processes like marketing, selling, purchasing raw materials, etc. A has a work process for interior design.
A has s work process for developing built-in software.
Guidance for doing research on the digital technology
1 You can select three technologies among the following digital technologies: 1- IoT
2- Cloud Computing
3- Big Data
4- Simulation
5- Additive Manufacturing
6- Autonomous Robot
7- Cybersecurity
8- System Integration
9- Augmented Reality
2 Do research on the selected digital technologies using black box view.
3 During your research, focus on similar organizations (Interior design companies), the same industry (design consultancy) which are related to organization A.
4 You need to understand how a similar organization in the same industry applied the
digital technologies.
Guidance for preparing your questionary
1 Design your questions for gathering information about
1- The function and performance of the departments and processes within organization A
2- The structure of the organization and the structure of the IT department.
3- The current organizational issues and the desired state of the organization.
2 Provide the reasons for asking the questions.
3 Your questions should be related to the selected digital technology. For example, if your selected technology is IoT, you can design questions for gathering information about the physical things in organization A.
4 Use Microsoft forms as tools for designing your questionary and ask me to answer the
questions.
Template for proposal
1 APA 7th Edition Title Page
2 Executive Summary
3 Table of Contents
4 Introduction
5 The Business opportunities of the selected digital technologies for organization A
6 The business threats of the selected digital technologies for organization A
7 The organization weakness as barriers for the adoption of the selected digital technologies
8 The organization strength as facilitators for the adoption of the selected digital technologies
9 The list of your proposed initiatives, programs, or projects.
10 The high-level IT architecture (work processes, information systems) of your suggested first project.
11 Conclusion
Attachment:- Digital Transformation.rar