You will pick a company and prepare a research report about the company’s information systems and/or technologies. You will make a virtual presentation of your work to me in Week 13 and then, you will submit the final version of your project report to the companion Web site by the end of Week 14.
In your project report, please address the following questions:
1. Provide brief background information about the company and its industry position.
2. Describe the company’s information systems and/or technologies that you have decided to analyze in your project.
3. How do those information systems and/or technologies support the company’s strategic business objectives?
4. Do those information systems and/or technologies help the company deal with any of the forces defined by Porter’s competitive forces model?
5. How would it impact the company if those information systems and/or technologies were not available?
6. How would you improve those information systems and/or technologies if you were in charge of the company’s IT department?
Reminder:- Your report should be 12-14 pages long and written in double space in MS Word.- You can prepare your presentation with MS PowerPoint, Prezi, or another presentation tool. You will have ~30 minutes to present your work. You are expected to prepare your presentation based on your responses to the questions provided as part of these given project guidelines. Students usually prepare ~2 slides for each question.
Writing Guidelines:
1. Use APA (American Psychological Association) Style (please visit
www.apastyle.orgfor details) or another style of your choice and create a bibliography for the project report with a minimum of ten articles including both scholarly and non-scholarly/popular materials.
2. Format the project report, in-text citations, footnotes, and endnotes according to the preferred style.
(Please limit the use of direct quotations in your report which should not be more than 15% of your work.)How to submit the final version of your project report?1. If you don'talreadyhave an account, you first need to enroll in our class on
www.turnitin.comin order to be able to submit your project report.(Useclass id: 23467602andenrollment password: mis2021).2. Upload a copy of your work to the assignment area titled “Project Report”.Please do not forget to remove any kind of personal information including your name and e-mail address, and my name and the title of our study from the document before submitting it to turnitin.com.3. Review your work’s similarity report created by Turnitin and if necessary, revise and resubmit your report. You can always submit multiple drafts of your report to Turnitin before the deadline and view the related similarity reports created by the system as a way to learn how to improve the overall quality of your work.Please notice that every time you submit a document, it will overwrite the previous submission.* The final version of your work's Turnitin similarity index should be no more than 15%.
4.Submit your work’s final version to the designated dropbox in Module V on our companion Web site.