Assignment Question

 Recommended length:

2000 – 2750 words (excluding appendices and references)

While some may see this as a restriction in the level of detail you may include, its purpose is to encourage you to focus on the issues and key concepts for each question. The word limit also encourages you to write concisely, a skill highly valued in business.

 

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 should include a title page that lists your name, 6-dgit student number, the unit number    (403) and name (Managing Information Systems).

Number all pages sequentially.

Any published material you refer to should be properly referenced and included in a bibliography at the end of your assignment (see plagiarism notice overleaf).

PLAGIARISM

 To ensure you are not plagiarising, you must acknowledge with a reference whenever you:

use another person’s ideas, opinions or theory

include any statistics, graphs or images that have been compiled or created by another person or organisation

paraphrase another’s written or spoken word.

ASSIGNMENT

New Information Systems are built as solutions to problems or means for improvement.

Your task is to use Laudon & Laudon’s Four-Step Problem-Solving & IS-Building Model and/or the Integrated Framework for Describing and Analyzing Information Systems to:

investigate persisting business problems in an organization that you are familiar with

explore suitable Information System solutions

suggest a suitable approach to implement such systems successfully.

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