MIS535 Course Project Latest November 2018

MIS535 Managerial Applications of Information Technology

COURSE PROJECT

Objective

?Provide an opportunity for students to apply a technology solution to a business problem in a specific company or organization that adds value to the organization.

Course Project Problems/Suggestions

The Course Project’s focus is on the use of technology to solve specific business problems. Although the list of technologies that you can choose for your Course Project is vast, the following are some current technical topic suggestions appropriate for specific business sectors that you could consider in solving your business problem.

Healthcare

New/updated patient registration system

New/updated system to track research

New/updated system to ensure that needed supplies are delivered to the right locations on the hospital floor

Financial

Automated tracking of employee spending when traveling

New/updated system to take advantage of trading online

Allows customers to make trades more efficiently

Project Management

Automated process of choosing projects

Assist in the process of ranking risks in projects

Automated the process of managing project documentation

Network Management

Manages on-call schedules

Manages the process of vendor selection

Manages the process of contract negotiation

Entrepreneurship

Systems to support new business start-up (website, database)

As a start-up, develop a business model to support both a brick and mortar and e-commerce presence.

Designs the infrastructure needed to support a brick and mortar or online bookstore

Designs a business process to complete customer transactions that maintain customer intimacy

Supply Chain Management

Implements/updates an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system

Designs the infrastructure to support the product development life cycle of a product that has a global product team

Implements a supply chain management system (cloud or in-house based)

Healthcare

Manages/updates the process of scheduling patient visits

Updates the patient paper file system with medical records system

Updates/creates the healthcare website

New system to install voice recognition system to replace transcriptionist positions

Information Security

Updates database security

Creates system to address compliance, governance

Conduct project to ensure cybersecurity

Marketing

Implements/updates a customer relationship management system

Implement salesforce (Cloud or corporate based)

Design a database to handle massive amounts of customer e-mails

Public Administration

Federal government: NSA security database

Local: traffic management

State: human resources system

Some Ideas to Identify a Business Problem

Lack of competitiveness or profitability

Inefficient processes

Slow product development

Obsolete IT organization and technologies

Poor corporate communications

Ongoing personnel issues

Some Benefits it Will Provide the Organization

Financial—profitability, revenue, product costs

Improved competitiveness

Better marketing positioning

Efficiency in key processes, for example, sales, manufacturing, and development

Improved product or service quality

Improved product development

Better and more accurate support turnaround

Preparation for the future—how is the organization positioning itself for future growth

Some Ideas on How the Project Could Tie Together

As an example, you could write your paper on some aspect of e-commerce. You might tie it into targeted advertising. You could then tie the back-end databases that are necessary to support e-commerce. For example, how databases contain information that allows vendors to target their audience and what those databases are.

Another example might be the functionality of enterprise systems. You might choose a specific enterprise system like ERP, CRM, or SCM and detail how the functionality is delivered. This could be how a business person would access this type of information.

The business problem is high cost of IT and product development, and the benefits are profitability, faster development time, or increased sales. The solution might be Cloud computing describing the Cloud computing approach taken; for example, SaaS or Cloud virtualization.

Summary of Course Project Requirements

Course Project Proposal

The proposal must be submitted and feedback received from the professor before beginning the project.

The table of contents for the Course Project proposal:

Subject of Course Project

Business problem statement

Name of the company or organization

Brief description of proposed solution

General benefits it will provide the organization

Audience to whom you are presenting the recommendations

The Course Project proposal is due no later than 11:59 p.m. MT of Week 2.

Course Project

The project should follow the APA style of citing references in the text and on the bibliography page. No fewer than five references must be used for research and properly cited in the paper and in the bibliography.

Ensure correct spelling and grammar (use built-in tool with MS Word).

Credible reference sources are available through the DeVry Library and other sources. Please do not use Wikipedia.

The project must be 10–15 pages in length (excluding the cover page, table of contents, bibliography and any attachments which includes images, tables or graphs), double spaced, using Times New Roman font, 12-point, using 1 inch margins and headings for the paper format requirements.

The table of contents for the Course Project:

Cover page

Table of contents

Abstract

Brief company background

Discussion of business problem(s)

High level solution

Benefits of solving the problem

Business or technical approach

Business process changes

Technology or business practices used to augment the solution

Conclusions and overall recommendations

High-level implementation plan

Summary of project

References

Appendices

The project is due no later than 11:59 p.m. MT Sunday of Week 6.

PowerPoint Presentation

In addition to the paper, you will create a Voice Thread presentation describing the major areas covered in your course project.  The presentation should be no more that 6-8 minutes.  A simple summary of the main topics, with supportive Power Point slides will be satisfactory.  You will be penalized for EXCEEDING 8 minutes, executives like short and terse presentation, and this will give you some practice to summarize your ideas succinctly.

The Voice Thread presentation is due no later than 11:59 p.m. MT Sunday of Week 7.