1. Group Presentation (15%):Week 10 Friday11:59 pm (Melb/ Sydney time)
2. Group Case Study Report (35%): Week10 Friday 11:59pm (Melb / Sydney time)

1. Critically evaluate how technology canenable an organisation’s core business processes and support the strategic goals.
2. Analyse and comprehend the issues that arise with the acquisition and adoption of technology and recommend possible solutions.
3. Critically evaluate the ways in which information technology can contribute to organisational innovation, efficiency and overallcorporate performance.

• All work must be submitted on Blackboard by the due date along with a completed Assignment Cover Page.
• The assignment must be in MS Word format unless otherwise specified.

• All work must be submitted on Blackboard by the due date and time, along with a completed Assessment Cover Page.Late penalties apply.
• Your answers must be based on Holmes Institute syllabus of this unit. Outside sources may not amountto more than 10% of any answerand must be correctly referenced in full. Over-reliance on outside sources will be penalised

• Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report and listed appropriately at the end in a reference listusing Holmes Institute Adapted Harvard

  Referencing.Penalties are associated with incorrect citation and referencing.

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 groupshave been created in the Blackboard. Students are required to join a research group on their campus by Week 5. Group members must only be from the same campus, same mode, and same unit code. Each group can have maximum 4 members.

Group Presentation (20 minutes)

Each group will be required to prepare a presentation on the selected research topic. The video presentation must be in Microsoft PowerPoint only. No otherfile formats areaccepted. Both “presentation slide” and “theface of presenter” should be in the recorded video. Each group should prepare a cohesive presentation that succinctly summarizes the studiesrelated to the selected research topic. Each membershould 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 3 Mb, 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 broadperspective, 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 studyexamines how a real-life companyhad 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:

1. Executive Summary/Synopsis
2. Introduction
   • introduce the selected company, including the background and any previous studies of the issue(literature review); briefly describe the keyproblem and its significance
3. Challenges
   • explain the challenge the selected company faced before using the presented technology;
4. Discussion
   • discuss how the selected company found the presented technology;

There are no errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation. Information is clear and concise on each slide.

Visually appealing/engaging.

There are many errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation. Too much information was contained on many slides.

Minimal effort made to make slides

appealing or too muchgoing on.

There are many errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation. The slides weredifficult to readand too muchinformation had beencopied onto them.

No visual appeal.

Comprehension (3%)

Extensive knowledge of topic.

Members showed complete understanding of assignment. Accurately answered allquestions posed.

Most showed a goodunderstanding of topic.

All members ableto answer mostof audience questions.

Few members showed good understanding of some partsof topic.

Only some members accurately

answered questions.

Presenters didn’tunderstand topic.

Majority of questions answered by onlyone member or majority of information incorrect.

Most members spoke to majority of audience; steady eye contact. The audience was engagedby the presentation.

Majority of presenters spokeat a suitable volume.

Some fidgeting by member(s).

Members focused on only part of audience. Sporadic eye contact bymore than onepresenter.

The audience was distracted. Speakers could be heardby only halfof the audience.

Body language was distracting.

Minimal eyecontact by morethan one memberfocusing on smallpart of audience.

The audience was not engaged.

Majority of presenters spoketoo quickly or quietly making it difficult to understand.

Inappropriate/disinterested body language.

The presentation was a concise summary of the topic with all questions answered.

Comprehensive and complete coverage of information.

The presentation was a good summaryof the topic.

Most important information covered; little irrelevant info.

The presentation was informative but several elements went unanswered.

Much of the information irrelevant;

coverage of someof major points.

The presentation was a brieflook at the topic butmany questions were left unanswered.

Majority of information irrelevant and significant points left out.

Preparedness/ Participation/ Dynamics (3%)

All presenters knew the information, participated equally, and helped eachother as needed.

Extremely prepared and rehearsed.

Slight domination of one presenter. Members helped eachother.

Very well prepared.

Significant controlling by some members with one minimally contributing.

Primarily prepared butwith some dependence on just reading off

slides.

Unbalanced presentation or tension resulting from over-helping.

Multiple members not participating. Evidentlack of preparation/rehearsal. Dependence on slides.

Introduction:

background, literature review, references (5.83

%)

Limited          research                      and associations betweenthe problems or questions and key course concepts and little (1 or more) use of corroborating

sources.

Excellent research with clearly documented associations between problems or questions and key courseconcepts and good (3 or more) use of corroborating

sources.

Challenges:

identification of the main issues and/or

problems (5.83%)

Discussion: analysis of the key

issues. (5.85%)

Shallow observations and recommendations on effective solutions to

some of the problems/issues. Adequate conclusion

Solid,         well-thought out observations                  and

recommendations on effective solutions to many of the problems/issues. Appropriate conclusions

Well-reasoned, logical, relevant observations                                       and

recommendations   on    effective solutions to

most of the problems/issues. Detailed         and                      appropriate

conclusions

There are severalspelling or grammatical errors. Some ideas are               clearly               presented. References are sporadic or not

used.