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Assessment Overview
Assessment 1: Case Study- 1 Students need to answer the case study which is relevant to Business information system. For details refer to Assessment Brief.
Assessment Details:
In this assignment students are required to read the case study below, conduct research to support your discussion, use examples, address the following case study questions and find solutions to problems.
Are Farms Becoming Digital Firms?
Exercise
You are a manager of a company which is in need of IS solutions to your company needs- similar to Digital Farming, looking for ways that technology can assist with sales. By reading the above case study, you want to implement digital farming strategy. You are required to read the case study, conduct research to help you address the following questions with supporting evidence.
Question 1. List and describe the technologies used in this case study.
Question 2. In what sense are U.S. farms now digital firms? Explain your answer.
Question 3. How is information technology changing the way farmers run their business?
Question 4. How do precision agriculture systems support decision making? Identify three different decisions that can be supported.
Question 5. Do you think digital farming strategy could be effective or non-effective to farming business needs? What other types of businesses and industries might benefit from the use of a digital strategy?
Question 6. Discuss how IT adds value and providing a competitive advantage to related farming industry. Explain do you think technology is needed in farming industry.
Question 7. How do the systems described in this case improve farming operations?
Question 8. How helpful is precision agriculture to individual farmers and the agricultural industry? Explain your answer.
Question 9. What are the strategic objectives that firms trying to achieve by investing in information systems and technologies? For each strategic objective, give an example of how a firm could use information systems to achieve the objective.
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