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Assignment Report

For this assignment you will have to prepare a paper that critically discusses how organisations apply the strategic use of IS/IT to achieve IS/IT-enabled innovation. Some aspects and issues you may discuss in your paper could include (but are not limited to):

Question 1: Critically discuss at least 4 examples of organisational attempts at achieving IS/IT enabled innovation.
• Present (with ample in-text citations) at least 4 examples of using IS/IT for innovation by 4 entities.
• Students need to clearly present the key information of the cases, including purposes (e.g., using IS/IT enabled innovation for new products/services, better business processes), process/journey (e.g., the process they have gone through), and outcomes (e.g., successful or not).

Question 2: Critically discuss the success factors and lessons learned - Highlight some success factors for the successful examples and lessons learned (i.e., what went wrong) for your unsuccessful examples.
• Clearly indicate success factors (what worked) and lessons learned (what factors attributed to what went wrong).
• Clearly highlight key factors before further explanation.
• Present good explanation of identified factors.
• It is better to have separate sections to discuss success factors and lessons learned

Question 3: Critically discuss the impacts of internal(e.g., organizational, individual, and management factors) and external factors (e.g., market, industry, social, economic, technological and political/policy factors) on the success (or the failure) of the IS/IT enabled innovation
• Internal factors could include organizational (e.g., culture, structure, processes, size, industry, products & services), individual, and management factors
• External factors could include market, industry, social, economic, technological and political/policy factors
• Are Internal factors more important than External factors? Or the other way around?
• Some identified factors from your chosen cases will be used and other relevant factors from the literature and your experience should be brought in as well. These identified factors should pertain to your chosen cases. Generic factors should be avoided in your discussion.

Question 4: Suggest recommendations and guidelines for helping organizations succeed in their efforts of embarking on using IS/IT for innovation with good explanation and discussion:
• Clearly spell out your suggestions before further explanation!
• Good explanation and justification for your suggestions/recommendations/guidelines.
• Recommendations should be built on your previous discussion, best practices identified in the literature, and your own experience...
• Recommendations are for using IS/IT for innovation in any organization not for any particular case(s) cited in your Assignment 1.

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