Project Implementation Plan

BMGN N340: Management Information Systems

Course Assignment 20%

Digital Narrative and Online Discussion

 

Digital Narrative	10%
Online Discussion	10%

  

Bara’a M. S. Yousuf

Faculty – Business and Information Technology | M.Sc., PMP, MCAD, PD Facilitator

Dubai Academic city, HCT, DMC

* 15825, UAE | ( +971 4 4038660 | 6 +971 4 3260303

Assignment1 Requirements

1. You’ll work in teams of 2-3 students.
2. Part1: Read Chapter 9 of your textbook to understand which Information Systems are available to help organizations achieve “Operational Excellence”. Categories: ERP, SCM and CRM. Notice that in each category, there are many IT companies offering different products for that category, example: in the ERP category some of the available products are Microsoft Dynamics, SAP, and ORACLE ERP.
3. Select one of the systems you discovered in part1 to focus more on.
4. Part2: Identify an organization that has implemented the Enterprise Application selected by the group and explore the whole business case around the selected Enterprise Application investment, in a case study style.
5. Review any available resources on the selected system’s features/characteristics to better understand it and be able to talk about it.
6. Part3: Students will present their Assignment case study in a creative way as a Digital Narrative. No report or PowerPoint slides. Video, Prezi presentation, Cartoon, or other creative digital tools might be used. Check this website to better understand what a digital narratives are: http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/index.html
7. Part4: Share your group Digital Narrative with the rest of the class to comment on and Discuss. BbVista is most likely going to be used for this sharing. Your teacher might share with you some other medium to share your Digital Narrative in case a better one is identified.
8. All students should take part in the discussion to understand the other types of Enterprise Application better.
9. Make sure that your discussion includes and “not limited to” groups that worked on systems falling in the same category of your system. This is mainly to identify the pros and cons of using each product for certain business scenario.
10. The Assignment mark will be divided among the Digital Narrative and the Discussion parts.

Deliverables and Timelines

Part1: Chapter 9 read	25/Feb/2012	Proposed timeline
Part2: System and organization selected	3/Mar/2012	Proposed timeline
Part3: Digital Narrative published	17/Mar/2012	Penalty of late submission apply
Part4: Discussion completed	24/ Mar /2012	Penalty of late submission apply

Marking Criteria/Assessment Rubrics

This assessment will be marked based on the following criteria.

Digital Narrative: 10%
Requirements	Max	Actual
Product overview: description of the selected product and the enterprise application category it belongs to. This description should include but not limited to the general purpose and capabilities of the selected enterprise application category. [   ] Excellent [   ]   Very Good  [   ] Good  [   ] Satisfactory   [   ] Poor	10
Organization overview: general information about the organization selected, like but not limited to: product/service, competitors, market segment and size … etc [   ] Excellent [   ]   Very Good  [   ] Good  [   ] Satisfactory   [   ] Poor	10
Business challenges: description of the problems and/or opportunities encountered by the organization for which IS investment was considered. [   ] Excellent [   ]   Very Good  [   ] Good  [   ] Satisfactory   [   ] Poor	10
Management role: description of changes/investments made on the managerial level for the purpose of the new IS. [   ] Excellent [   ]   Very Good  [   ] Good  [   ] Satisfactory   [   ] Poor	15
Organizational role: description of changes/investments made on the organizational level for the purpose of the new IS. [   ] Excellent [   ]   Very Good  [   ] Good  [   ] Satisfactory   [   ] Poor	15
Technology role: description of the IT infrastructure and additional technology investments made for the purpose of the new IS. [   ] Excellent [   ]   Very Good  [   ] Good  [   ] Satisfactory   [   ] Poor	15
Information System capabilities: description of the new IS features. [   ] Excellent [   ]   Very Good  [   ] Good  [   ] Satisfactory   [   ] Poor	15
Business Solutions: description of the organization’s strategic objectives achieved as a return of the IS investment. [   ] Excellent [   ]   Very Good  [   ] Good  [   ] Satisfactory   [   ] Poor	10
Total	100
%	10

Discussion: 10% (Individual)
Requirements	Max	Actual
Student demonstrates interest in understanding other groups work by asking good questions or making good comments on various aspects of the Digital Narratives shared by the other groups. [   ] Excellent [   ]   Very Good  [   ] Good  [   ] Satisfactory   [   ] Poor	30
Student demonstrates excellent understanding of various aspects presented in his own group’s Digital Narrative by providing good answers/feedback to other groups’ questions/comments. [   ] Excellent [   ]   Very Good  [   ] Good  [   ] Satisfactory   [   ] Poor	40
It is compulsory that each member of any group respond to all questions/comments posted against their own Digital Narrative.	10
Quality of used vocabulary (i.e. course and business related) [   ] Excellent [   ]   Very Good  [   ] Good  [   ] Satisfactory   [   ] Poor	20
Total	100
%	10