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MIS500 Foundations of Information Systems - Reflective Portfolio Assignment

Learning Outcomes - This assessment addresses the following subject learning outcomes: Develop own professional practice and ethical standards around business problems and implementation of solutions.

Context: The assessment suite in this subject is built on top of skills you are building in your learning activities. Although the learning activities do not carry any assessable weight by themselves, completing them and seeking input from your peers and the learning facilitator is essential for you to achieving a positive result in the subject. Before beginning this assessment, be sure that you have completed the learning activities in all of the modules.

Instructions: As you begin this subject, start and keep a learning journal that you add to during the process of learning about the foundations of information systems. A suggested format for the learning journal is as follows:

Date	Learning Activity	Impact	Evidence

(You are free to have another format of your choosing, and if you do, the following comments will need to be adjusted.)

For each day in your learning journey, write the date and then the learning activity you engaged in. Detail what impact the learning had on you and then include any evidence you might like to keep later. This journal should be appended to this assessment when you submit it.

To do this assessment well, you will need to engage in reflective analysis. Reflection is what happens when you are quiet and calm and have appropriate time to study and is how you integrate the materials in this subject with what you already know. Sometimes the materials may challenge what you already know, and at other times it may create new knowledge, opinions or ways you will integrate into your professional practice. Reflection is not a cursory comment about a learning activity but instead is an authentic assessment as it involves you being vulnerable, allowing your personal beliefs and the way you perceive the world around you to be challenged and, if necessary, changed by what you learn. An important element of reflection is your incorporation of your belief system, your morals and ethics as well as how you view the impact of information systems on people.

Toward the end of the trimester, take your learning journal and then build a narrative that summarises the journey and learnings you undertook while studying this subject. You should refer to specific journal entries and/or extracts from learning activities to demonstrate your learning. You should refer to how you can apply the learnings in your future career or the organisation you currently work for. Should you wish to you can focus your self reflection on one aspect of the subject from the following topics:

- Business Intelligence and Big data

- Cybersecurity

- Agile Methods and system development

- CRM technologies

- SCM Technologies

There is no required format for the assessment. Students should use initiative and be sure to conform to the APA referencing style, making use of external sources as appropriate.

Be sure to bookend your assignment with an introduction and conclusion. You may also like to append your learning activities or other artefacts that demonstrate the attainment of your learning or the ways in which the learning materials have affected you personally.

Choose cyber security topic.

MODULE 1 - Introduction to Information Systems

This Module will help you:

Define and explain the scope of information systems;

Consider and critically evaluate businesses in systems terms;

Research and contrast different types of technologies;

Collaborate with colleagues a picture of the contemporary business environment;

Critically analyse-practicing your critical thinking-the notion of technology and its place in the enterprise;

Anticipate and map the information needs of a large Australian enterprise; and,

Expand your information searching technique and synthesise information from it.

MODULE 2 - DATA, INFORMATION & KNOWLEDGE

Learning Outcomes - Reading and studying this module and fully attempting all of the learning activities will help you to:

Explain the difference between data, information and knowledge using examples, including new ones you have not seen or used before;

Critically analyse the role of data in a contemporary enterprise, using examples you invent;

Use Ackoff's hierarchy of data to theorise and explain the differences between data, information and knowledge in a contemporary enterprise;

Demonstrate, with original examples, the efficient manner of storing and managing organisational data;

Critically argue the value of organisational knowledge; and

Make defensible recommendations for how an enterprise can harness its knowledge and incentivise its staff to share knowledge.

MODULE 3 - BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Learning Outcomes - Reading and studying this module and fully attempting all of the learning activities will help you to:

Use the functional view of business to map and critically evaluate the IS used in a firm of your choice;

Synthesise the advantages and disadvantages of core business IS, incorporating high-quality sources into your argument;

Justify the use of business IS, defending the drive of contemporary firms to pursue continuous improvements and efficiency;

Create recommendations for firms considering implementing modern accounting systems so that they can appropriate resource their requirements;

Critically evaluate academic sources using thematic analysis and using those as the basis for creating a risk analysis and risk mitigation plan;

Conceptualise the links between abstract concepts-such as multiple business and enterprise IS-in diagrammatic form; and

Argue the high-level case for enterprise systems to management.

MODULE 4 - e-Business, e-Commerce & Business Intelligence

Learning Outcomes - Reading and studying this module and fully attempting all of the learning activities will help you to:

Understand the beginnings of the Internet and use it to critically analyse how businesses can capitalise on technology to drive their businesses;

Make recommendations regarding the use of technology for business that are cognisant of the risks to business models and that feature business at the heart of technology;

Distinguish between different types of electronic business, centred on the type of customer being serviced;

Critically analyse the reasons why businesses would adopt e-Commerce and e-Business initiatives and technologies;

Define business intelligence, contextualising it in its history and future projections;

Illustrate why business managers need accurate and timely information;

Describe decision-making models; and

Discuss current business intelligence technologies.

MODULE 5 - INFORMATION SECURITY

Learning Outcomes - Reading and studying this module and fully attempting all of the learning activities will help you to:

Explain why firms should care about information security;

Describe and justify the tenets of information security;

Analyse the concepts underlying authorisation;

Explore and characterise the personal preferences of hackers;

Describe examples of threats to information security;

Produce policies, standards, guidelines and procedures for information security;

Discuss and promote disaster recovery planning;and

Explain why social engineering is the most insidious type of threat.

MODULE 6 - THE INFORMATION SYSTEMS PROFESSION

Learning Outcomes - Reading and studying this module and fully attempting all of the learning activities will help you to:

Consider and define what is meant by 'profession' and synthesise the key elements;

Explain the need for continuing professional development;

Argue the case for professional ethics;

Discuss contemporary ethical issues concerning information systems; and

Consider and discuss contemporary and emergent issues.

Attachment:- Assignment Files.rar