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HI6032 Leveraging IT for Business Advantage

Assignment

Activity 1:
In today's competitive environment, especially in global business, organizations find it necessary to simplify the ways they manage every functional department within an organization. As such, many organizations have turned to enterprise systems as a way to accomplish this task. Do some investigation on the Internet and look for a company that is utilizing enterprise system. Write a brief report on this company and discuss whether the use of enterprise system will result in a competitive advantage for this company.

Activity 2:
Research some recent company cyber security breaches and choose two of these companies where data breaches have occurred. Explain the reasons for these breaches and discuss how they could have been avoided.

Present your discussions in a single document, no more than 1 page. Include references where necessary.

Remember as per guidelines in the assignments, similarity will be taken into account when grading and plagiarism will be penalized. Major breaches of the policy will be referred to the Deans Office.

Activity 3: How people use, access, and discover data in business is being actively disrupted by tablets, which had been designed for consumers. Users have higher expectations for data displays and capabilities. Boring, static graphs and pie charts are unacceptable. Discuss how performance management, the monitoring of KPIs, for example, may be improved by providing managers with data visualizations. Now consider the opposite. In your opinion, would lack of data visualization hurt the ability to manage performance?

Present your discussions in a single document, no more than 1 page. Include references where necessary.

Remember as per guidelines in the assignments, similarity will be taken into account when grading and plagiarism will be penalized. Major breaches of the policy will be referred to the Deans Office.

Activity 4: Do some investigation on the Internet and look for a company that is utilizing Business Analytics in an interesting way. Write a brief report on this company and how it is using analytics and discuss whether the use of analytics will result in a competitive advantage for this company. Do you envisage any further uses of analytics which might result in further advantage of the company?

Present your discussions in a single document, no more than 1 page. Include references where necessary.

Remember as per guidelines in the assignments, similarity will be taken into account when grading and plagiarism will be penalized. Major breaches of the policy will be referred to the Deans Office.

Activity 5: What do you believe to be one of the most important applications of Artificial Intelligence in organizations? Discuss this. Additionally, find an example of this type of application of AI in an organization and use the example to enhance your discussion. Explain how this particular use of AI has helped the organization and evaluate how well you think it does this.

Present your discussions in a single document, no more than 1 page. Include references where necessary.

Remember as per guidelines in the assignments, similarity will be taken into account when grading and plagiarism will be penalized. Major breaches of the policy will be referred to the Deans Office.

Attachment:- Leveraging IT for Business Advantage.rar