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E-Business Assignment -
Detailed specification of work -
1. An original question about e-business that would be worth further research.
- This section is concerned only with defining the problem/.question.
- Include a short paragraph that explains why it is interesting and a page of plan / research method that shows how your question could be answered.
- Your idea can be interesting for its own sake - pure research. Or it might be useful to a specified organisation - applied research.
2. A report to a senior manager of a real organisation on one of the following. Or propose a topic of your own, this may include undertaking a full research study in your original question in 1 above - but get my approval for it before you start work. Clearly identify which option you are answering.
Outline - To help you pick a topic suitable for the coursework, first, consider choosing a scenario type from the options below:
a. Analysis and critical evaluation of current e-business strategy and activities. (There must already be some significant e-business activity.)
You decide how to carry out the appraisal, using your own selection or those techniques taught on the module.
b. Proposal and justification for a systems architecture to support e-business. (The organisation must have little or no significant e-business activity now).
- Summarise the applications that are needed.
- Outline their interfaces with each other, and any necessary standards.
- Explain how the applications differ from current systems.
- Identify the benefits and how they will be measured.
c. A migration plan to develop e-business capability from scratch. (The organisation must have little or no significant e-business activity now.)
- Identify impacts on the organisation and changes to infrastructure.
- Identify major benefits, with suggestions for how to measure them.
- Identify major risks, with strategies to avoid or minimise them.
d. High level design for a completely new e-business application. (Must be relevant to the needs of the organisation and not closely based on any existing system.)
- Explain the need and justify the design decisions in a brief report.
- Design to include systems architecture, functional requirements, technical interface requirements, data storage requirements and sample user interfaces.
- May consist mainly of diagrams and models.
e. Proposal and justification for an e-business strategy. (The organisation must have little or no significant e-business activity now.)
- Outline the strategy and summarise the main changes expected in the organisation.
- Implementation plan should show how the changes will be achieved.
- Identify the benefits and explain how they can be measured.
Once you have made your choice of topic type, progress to the report, which will contain the following two sections -
1. Research questions will be marked mainly for:-
- Originality and interest of the question.
- Feasibility of the outline plan / research methodology.
2. The research or management report will be marked for its:-
- Factual basis.
- Overall coherence.
- Analytical depth, logical argument, critical questioning of others (including published sources).
- Originality of thought, synthesis, new ideas and insights.