1. Group Presentation (15%):Week 10 Friday11:59 pm (Melb/ Sydney time)
2. Group Case StudyReport (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 theways in whichinformation technology cancontribute to organizational  innovation, efficiency and overall corporate performance.

• All work must be submitted on Blackboard by the due date alongwith a completed Assignment Cover Page.
• The assignment mustbe in MS Word formatunless otherwise specified.

• All work mustbe submitted on Blackboard by the duedate 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 amount to more than10% of any answer and must be correctly referenced in full. Over-reliance on outside sources will be penalized.

• Reference sources mustbe cited in the textof the reportand listed appropriately at the end in a reference list using 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 createdin 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 other file formats are accepted. Both “presentation slide”and “the face of presenter” should be in the recorded video. Each group should prepare a cohesive presentation that succinctly summarizes the studies relatedto the selected research topic. Each member should 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 3Mb, 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 studymust be directly relevant to the selected research topic.

From a broad perspective, a case study is an in-depth analysis of a particular subject. Generally, the studycovers a problem-solution-results format.When applied to this unit, a case study examines how a real-life company had a problem, founda 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); brieflydescribe the key problem 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;  discuss the selected company’s decision process and the steps they went through before discovering the solution. 

     5. Implementation

     • explain how the solution was implemented; discuss if the implementation meets the expectations, and who was involved in the implementation process

     6. Conclusion

     • conclude your case study with the end results; sum up the main points from the challenges, discussion and recommendations

     7. Recommendations

     • provide proposals for future action to solve the problem or improve the situation

     8. References

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

Visually appealing/engaging.

There are manyerrors in spelling, grammar and punctuation. Too

much information wascontained on manyslides.

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 much information had been copied onto them.

No visual appeal.

Comprehension (3%)

Extensive knowledge of topic.

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

Most showed a good understanding of topic.

All members ableto answer mostof audience questions.

Few members showed good understanding of some partsof topic.

Only some membersaccurately

answered questions.

Presenters didn’t understand topic.

Majorityof questions answered by only onemember or majority of information incorrect.

Regular/constant eye contact, theaudience was engaged, and presenters held the

audience’s attention. Appropriate speaking volume & body language.

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

Majority of presenters spokeat a suitable volume.

Some fidgeting by member(s).

Members focused on only part of audience. Sporadic eye contact by more than one presenter.

The audience was distracted.

Speakers couldbe heard by only half of the audience.

Body language wasdistracting.

Minimal eye contact by more thanone member focusing on small part of audience.

The audience was not engaged.

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

Inappropriate/disinterested body language.

The presentation wasa concise summaryof the topic with all questions answered.

Comprehensive and complete coverage of information.

The presentation was a good summary of 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 brief lookat the topicbut many 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 andrehearsed.

Slight domination of one presenter. Members helped each other.

Very well prepared.

Significant controlling by some members with one minimally contributing.

Primarilyprepared but withsome dependence on just reading off

slides.

Unbalanced presentation or tension resulting from over-helping.

Multiple members not participating. Evident lackof preparation/rehearsal. Dependence on slides.

Introduction:

background, literature review,references (5.83

%)

Limited                       research                            and associations between the 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 course concepts 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 several spelling or grammatical errors. Some ideas are                   clearly                  presented. References aresporadic or not

used.