Accounting Assignment Title: Presentation on topic of choic

Assignment Number 2:  Presentation (15%)

Assignment Title:  Presentation on topic of choice

Assignment Length:  15 minutes

Submission Deadline:  

Learning Outcomes:

Demonstrate a critical awareness of the sources and characteristics of data necessary to support management information systems
Use the WWW and other electronic sources of information

Assignment Brief:

ICT for strategic Advantage
Assessed Seminars

Purpose of the seminars

These seminars are intended to disseminate current developments in Business Information Systems and stimulate discussions on symbolic issues in the subject area of ICT.  Seminar sessions will start during the third week of this semester. 

Requirements

You are required to choose a question from the list provided below. You are expected to conduct research into the topic area you selected, which should form the basis of your research and subsequent presentation.  The findings from your research must be presented during the weekly seminars. 

Each student is expected to select a question during the first week of the semester.  The Question number must be e-mailed to the lecture along with your name before the end of the first lecture session.  A maximum of two students will be allowed to research one question.  You will be given a week and time when you are expected to present. You must stick to the presentation slot allocated to you.  Please be prepared to answer questions about your presentations from your colleagues.  Students are responsible for identifying their own literature source.
 
Topics

1. How much do you know about the customers visiting your web site?
2. Once you have constructed a firewall, are you secured?
3. How do you measure the benefits from your IT investment?
4. Unifying data from a range of different sources in important than ever.
5. What is next for m-commerce?
6. Don’t blame the users for e-mail that embarrassed the company, it is up to you to make and enforce the rules
7. Outsourcing is booming, but what are the pleasures and pitfalls?
8. Is e-commerce growth forcing you to take a more professional approach to doing business on the web?
9. Successful Knowledge Management solutions depend on user buy-in.
10. Is your IT strategy aligned with your business goals and objectives?
11. Do you use IT for keeping your customers?
12. Do ERPs improve business efficiency and profitability?

Assessment criteria

This piece of assessment accounts for 15% of your assignment grade. Students will be assessed during the seminar sessions based on the following criteria.

• Relevance of contents to the research area
• Importance and sequencing of issues covered
• Connection of conclusion to introduction
• Presentation
• Delivery
• Handling of discussion session

See page 14 for a copy of the assessment proforma.

Secondary Research Level HE6 - It is expected that the Reference List will contain between ten and fifteen sources. As a MINIMUM the Reference List should include three refereed academic journals and three academic books.

Specific Assessment Criteria (see page 8 for General Assessment Criteria):

First class: Various aspects of Information Communication Technologies are clearly presented.  Lessons or importance of study findings for Information Systems are presented from a critically prospective.  Presentation and structure of findings/arguments are of a very high level.  Contribution to topic/discipline clearly demonstrated.  Evidence of relevant literature used throughout presentation was of a very high standard.  Evidence of understanding of the requirements of the assignment was of a very high standard.

Second class:  Expertise and knowledge about topic area demonstrated.  Key features of topic/study presented.  Well structured presentation with clear linkage to each section.  Some of the key issues presented in detail.  Presentation of level of analysis still low and fairly uncritical.  Linkages to literature, interesting points relatively under-developed during the presentation.  Clear evidence of understanding the requirements of the assignment during the presentation.

Third class: Some structure to presentation.  At lower levels more research needed to be clearly shown in the presentation.  The organisation of material could have been easily improved by rearrangement and/or alteration of space allocated to various points.  Some evidence of understanding of the requirements of the assignment.  Some evidence of effective research, through the use of relevant literature in the presentation.

 
Fail: Some description and no analysis.  No structure to presentation.  Little evidence on theoretical, conceptual and practical elements of Information Systems presented.  Scant evidence of understanding of the requirements of the assignment.  Little evidence of effective research, through the use of relevant literature in the presentation.

Additional Submission Instructions:
You will need to submit a title sheet and copy of the slides and a reference list to the module tutor on the day of the presentation.