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Module Title: IT Management Module Code: KC704 Individual Essay (3000 Words)

This document provides information and instructions for a 3000-word individual essay assignment. The essay is worth 30% of the grade for the IT Management module. Students are asked to analyze how an integrated MIS has helped both a service-based and manufacturing-based organization improve performance in providing information across departments, facilitating decision-making, and managing business processes. The document outlines the sections and word counts for the essay, including framing the study, literature review, critical analysis, argumentation, and presentation. It also provides a marking scheme for how the essay will be evaluated.

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Module Title: IT Management Module Code: KC704 Individual Essay (3000 Words)

This document provides information and instructions for a 3000-word individual essay assignment. The essay is worth 30% of the grade for the IT Management module. Students are asked to analyze how an integrated MIS has helped both a service-based and manufacturing-based organization improve performance in providing information across departments, facilitating decision-making, and managing business processes. The document outlines the sections and word counts for the essay, including framing the study, literature review, critical analysis, argumentation, and presentation. It also provides a marking scheme for how the essay will be evaluated.

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Module Title: IT Management

Module Code: KC704

Individual Essay (3000 words)


The ultimate goal of any Management Information System (MIS) is
optimization (Jackson D. Ford 1987).

An integrated MIS should achieve optimisation by performing the following


three main functions for the organisation that it is applied into:

a) Provide information across various departments


b) Facilitate decision making at the three tire of management
c) Serve as efficient means for managing business processes

Organisations can either provide service or manufactured goods as their


product or more commonly a combination of both.

For this essay you are required to look at the application of integrated MIS in a
service based and a manufacturing based organisation and analyse how
this has helped them to improve their performance in the context of the three
main functions defined for an integrated MIS above.

This is a 3000 word essay and counts 30% of your final grade for the IT
Management module. The format of your assignment should be as follow:
Font type and size: Arial 12
Line separation: 1.5
Referencing: Harvard

Deadline for the submission of essay is (Wednesday 1 st July 2009)

Reference:

Clarke Steve (2007); Information Systems Strategic Management: an integrated approach.


ISBN 978-0-415-38187-1; Routledge Printing, USA & Canada

Fattahi. R and Ebrahim Afshar (2006), Added value of information and information
systems: a conceptual approach; Library Review Vol. 55 No. 2, 2006 pp. 132-147

Jackson D. Ford (1987); Conceptual model of an integrated management information


system incorporating industrial engineering techniques, Computers & Industrial Engineering
Volume 13, Issues 1-4, 1987, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee,
37996, USA
Module Title: IT Management
Module Code: KC704

Individual Essay (3000 words)


MARKING SCHEME
Framing the study 15%
Literature review 20%
Critical analysis 30%
Strength of argumentation 20%
Presentation 15%

Framing the study (20% - 700 words)


Students will gain credit for laying a strong logical foundation for their essay.
For example providing definition for key words such as Value, added value,
Optimisation will be credited. Brief explanation of analytical models such as
the value chain or five force analysis will be credited.

Literature review (30% - 1000 word)


Students will gain credit for providing a brief review of one manufacturing
organisation and one service organisation who has strategically used some
form of Information System to improve their performance (10% each)
OR
A brief review of one organisation which provides both manufactured goods
and also services who has strategically used some form of Information
System to improve its manufacturing and service performance (20%)

Critical analysis (35% - 1300 word)


Credit will be awarded to critical analysis of the literature review through the
lenses of analytical models and definitions provided in the Framing the
study. Students should explain how the strategic implementation of
Information Systems has improved the business performance of the
organisation(s) of their choice.

Presentation, structure and referencing 15%


Credit will be given to the presentation (5%), structure (5%) and referencing
(5%).

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