• After selecting related topic, you may describe and critically discuss what problems, challenges of the topic are and how the problems would be solved and what solutions are, etc. • When addressing the selected topic, you need to collect references (5 articles) for supporting your ideas, statements, arguments and conclusion, etc, just like writing an essay or research paper. • One paragraph should express one main idea. Normally, each paragraph should have a topic sentence that expresses the main idea in this paragraph. Then other sentences in the paragraph support this topic sentence. For example, we can use evidence such as fact, theory, examples or idea from reference to support the topic sentence. At the end of paragraph, we should also briefly surmise this paragraph. • Each paragraph discusses one thing and different paragraphs should have logical connection. 3. How to correctly use references? • If we want to use references to support our discussion, or argument, we can re-write the sentences in the references based on our understanding and then give the references, and we should avoid directly copying original texts from the references.

For example, from the week 4 lecture, we discuss IT Strategy. Based on the definition, strategy indicates that business areas of a company and the necessary resources and required investments are aligned to realize the aspired goals. Now supposing you are a boss of a small software company, and then you may need to do Strategic Segmentation Analysis under COVID-19, such as analysing Markets and Customers, Location, Identification of customers, Decision mode of customers, Motivation for purchasing, Market rules and regulations, Market trends, etc. Anyway you have a lot of things to say and to worry because you want to "survive" under the situation. You may even use Porter’s Five Forces theory to support your discussion. 2. How to write your essay? Based on the marking guide, Development of Discussion(9 marks) in your essay should cover • Thoroughness of research • Relevance of points • Logical development of discussion • Use of references to support points • Comparison of views • Cohesion of overall report

Here are some ways to approach the assignment . Please have a look 1. How to select a topic, using scenario to narrow topic down to a specific area Based on marking guide, we need to select one of the topics under the umbrella of IT strategy and governance/management, then clearly articulate the issues and comprehensively discuss the context/s in terms of IT strategy and governance. This means that we need to select one topic that has been presented in the lecture. For example, we may first select IT and business strategies as our topic. As the topic can cover broad area, so it may be difficult for us to discuss it. If we can narrow the topic down and just limit IT and business strategies to the specific area or case( such as alignment small software company strategies under COVID-19( not recommend you to use this topic as many other students may use it. this is just an example), it may be easy for us to find fact, theory and examples to support our discussion. The more topic familiar and concrete, the more we can find something to say.