Reference no: EM133772937

Leveraging IT Advantage for Managers

Purpose of the assessment: Critically evaluate how technology can enable an organisation's core business processes and support the strategic goals.

Analyse and comprehend the issues that arise with the acquisition and adoption of technology and recommend possible solutions.

Critically evaluate the ways in which information technology can contribute to organisational innovation, efficiency and overall corporate performance.

Objectives: This assessment is designed to enhance students' skills on critically analyzing and evaluating key issues and challenges in recent IS technologies and how they can be acquired and contribute to business core processes. The assessment helps develop presentation and problem-solving skills.

Instructions

For this assignment students will be divided into small groups (the size will depend on class size), and each group will select a specific technology/ topic to research.

The research topic you select must be directly relevant to IT in Business. A list of possible topics is provided in the attachment (for reference purposes only).

A set of research groups have been created in the Blackboard. Students are required to join a research group on their campus by Week 9. Group members must only be from the same campus, same mode, and same unit code. Each group can have maximum 4 members.

Group Presentation

Each group will be required to prepare a presentation on the selected research topic. The video presentation must be in Microsoft PowerPoint only. No other file formats are accepted. Both "presentation slide" and "the face of presenter" should be in the recorded video. Each group should prepare a cohesive presentation that succinctly summarizes the studies related to the selected research topic. Each member should present the part of the work they are most involved with, ensuring a balanced distribution of speaking time.

NOTE: Blackboard has a file size limit of 3Mb. If your presentation is larger than 3Mb, upload your presentation to Youtube and submit a Word document with the hyperlink to Blackboard.

Group Case Study Report (2500 words)

Each group will then be required to research a real-life company and write a case study report. The case study must be directly relevant to the selected research topic.

From a broad perspective, a case study is an in-depth analysis of a particular subject. Generally, the study covers a problem-solution-results format. When applied to this unit, a case study examines how a real-life company had a problem, found a solution using a particular information technology, and shares the results of the solution.

The following eight elements must be included in your case study report:
Executive Summary/Synopsis
Introduction
introduce the selected company, including the background and any previous studies of the issue (literature review); briefly describe the key problem and its significance
Challenges
explain the challenge the selected company faced before using the presented technology;
Discussion
discuss how the selected company found the presented technology;