Assignment: Final Project—Business Memo—Driving Value From Business Information Systems

Assignment: Final Project—Business Memo—Driving Value From Business Information Systems

This week you will continue to work on your Final Project, which is due in Week 7. By Day 7, you will submit a business memo, written to your Instructor that explains how you plan to incorporate your learning from the week into your Final Project. This will not be a “perfect” synopsis at this point, but it should capture the main themes and important ideas from the week. Your memo should include the following:

• Your preliminary summary of how you are planning to incorporate this weekâ€s learning into your Final Project
• Your ideas and recommendations for how your organization can drive value from business information systems
• Other relevant recommendations or issues that you identified, with a brief analysis of why they are important

Note: If you are unable to find relevant information, you may want to look for similar information at/for other similar publically traded companies. You may find relevant information that will enable you to make appropriate inferences about your organization and make reasonable assumptions so you can proceed with your project.

If you have questions about how to apply what you are learning, or how to find the most relevant information for your organizationâ€s needs, please discuss your choice with your Instructor using the Contact the Instructor link in the classroom.

General Guidance on Assignment Length: Your Week 4 Assignment will typically be 1.5–3 pages (0.75–1 pages if single spaced), excluding a title page (not required for this Assignment) and references.

As a best practice for this course, as you engage and complete your weekly activities, you will capture notes on your learning for each week and add them to your Final Project Portfolio, which you will use to formulate your Final Project. By the time you turn in your Final Project in Week 7, your working Final Project Portfolio document will contain your notes on the resources you found relevant in each week, as well as your ideas for how your organization can improve its BIS management with respect to each weekâ€s main themes. You should also include your analyses of the implications of your recommendations, as well as reasons why your recommendations are important. You will update your Final Project Portfolio each week.

Learning Resources

Note: To access this week’s required Harvard Business Review resources, select the article link and navigate to the relevant article or go back to Blackboard and select Harvard Business Articles from the course navigation menu. 

Required Readings

Bélanger, F., Van Slyke, C., & Crossler, R. (2019). Information systems for business: An experiential approach, 3e. Burlington, VT: Prospect Press.

• Chapter 4: Gaining Strategic Value from Information

Grigore, A.-M. (2014). Book Publishing Business in Romania – An Analysis from the Perspective of Porterâ€s Five Force Model. Review of International Comparative Management / Revista de Management Comparat International, 15(1), 31–47. 

Khani, N., Nor, K., & Bahrami, M. (2011). IS/IT capability and Strategic Information System Planning (SISP) success. International Management Review, 7(2), 75-83.

This paper explains the ways in which IT capabilities can be used to transform a firmâ€s IT investments from a knowledge-based perspective

Munro, M., & Khan, S. (2013). WestJet Airlines: Information technology governance and corporate strategy (Ivey Publishing Case Study No. 9B13E020). 

 

This case study examines the efforts of WestJet Airlines to update its information systems to enhance the organizationâ€s competitiveness. The study focuses on the decision to hire an experienced CIO, how this individual developed an IT restructuring strategy, and how this individual worked to convince key stakeholders of the advantages of the new IT governance model.

Porter, M. E. (2008). The five competitive forces that shape strategy. Harvard Business Review, 86(1), 78–93. 

 

This is Michael Porterâ€s explanation of the five forces that determine profitability of any industry, expanding on his classic work on strategy formulation. Porter also includes material related to applying the five forces in the real world.

Tallon, P. P., & Pinsonneault, A. (2011). . Competing perspectives on the link between strategic information technology alignment and organizational agility: Insights from a mediation model. MIS Quarterly, 35(2), 463-486.

This paper examines the literature and identifies the main arguments related to IT alignment and organizational agility. The authors test the relationship using a specific model under varying environmental conditions, and they dig into the literature that supports the idea that strategic IT alignment and organizational agility are equally critical organizational goals.

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