CST 2206 – MIS Final Research Project                              

學生組的2個或3個人為一個小組來研究一個組織的IT使用和管理。這個組織的IT使用和管理應得到的信息，要通過組合的方式來獲得，包括：

Student groups of 2 or 3 will study one organization’s use and management of IT. The information about this organization’s IT use and management should be obtained through a combination of means, including: personal or phone interviews with the organization’s employees; articles/cases from Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Business Week, Information Week, CIO, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, etc.; and the worldwide web. If you cannot interview any executive from the organization, either personally or by phone, you should obtain a greater variety of published information so that you can form reliable and rich conclusions. 

Based on the above information, each group will present its findings in the form of a Case document and will then summarize that document for delivery in class as a Power point Presentation.

 

****All Reports should be a minimum of 10 typed pages in length not including Cover Sheet and Reference Sheet which are required. ( 12 Pages Total ),  8 1/2 X 11 paper, 1 inch. Margins, 12 Point Font Size, Double Spaced, Bounded, Pages Numbered, all Tables, Figures, or graphics shall be referenced in report and shown at end of report in the form of an index. 

 

The case should be similar in style to the cases discussed in class and contain the following.http://ukthesis.org/thesis_sample/guanlileizuoye/

• Executive Summary 

• General background of the organization  

• A summary of the functions of key info. Systems 

• Description of the IS department 

• Description of the structures and processes for managing IS’s 

• Detailed description of one major information system 

• Conclusion (Including recommendations & links to literature) 

• Appendices

 

? WIKI - Topic & Report Outline - Due Date – 03/28/2012

 

Each group is expected to submit a WIKI Developed Outline identifying the organization, the nature of its IS’s, your reasons for selecting this organization and sources of information. The approval of the project idea by the Instructor will avoid duplication and ensure proper focus.  

 

? Report - Due Date – 05/02/2012

    Deliverable 1 - Hard Copy of report submitted to me in class.

    Deliverable 2 - Electronic Copy of report email to me.

? Presentation - Due Date – 05/14/2012

If you have any questions Ask Me, Don't Assume!!!! 

 

1. Executive Summary should summarize the rest of the report in 1 or 2 pages. It should 

point the key points of the report so that an executive who is too busy to read the entire re-

port can get an excellent idea of the report just by reading the executive summary.

 

2. General Background of the Organization:

(a) The business the organization is in,

(b) The size of the organization (in terms of number of employees and annual sales),

(c) Its organization structure, and 

(d) Its main competitors.

 

3. A summary of the functions of info. systems. This section should briefly summarize the functions performed by the various information systems within the organization. This section could benefit from a Table that concisely gives a list of the major benefits for each of these information systems.

4. The IS Department, including information on:

(a) The number of employees in the IS department,

(b) The structure of the IS department,

(c) The working style within the IS department  (i.e., how formal or informal it is), and 

(d) The placement of the IS department in the overall organization structure (i.e., who does the head of the IS department report to?).

本節描述的是結構和流程管理。本節描述了如何組織管理信息系統和技術。本節中應回答以下問題，如：

5. Description of the structures and processes for managing IS’s. This section should describe how the organization manages information systems and technologies. Questions such as the following should be answered in this section: How does the organization plan for the various information systems it would be developing? Which individuals and departments are involved in the IS planning process? How does it decide how much resources would be allocated to each system? How does it usually develop systems (e.g., in-house or outsourced?) Who evaluates information systems? How are they typically evaluated? Who are the main individuals and committees involved in IS management? etc.

6. Detailed description of one major information system: Select the one most important information system for this organization, and describe it in detail. This section should address questions such as the following: Who are the main users of the system? What are the key in-puts and outputs for the system? What benefits does the system provide to various users? When was it developed, and by whom? How much has the system changed over the years, and in what ways?

 

7. Conclusion. To conclude the report, the above sections should be used to comment on 

(a) the nature of the overall IS management process and the organization’s information systems;  

(b) the future direction you (based on interviews, etc.) foresee for the organization’s IT use and management. In drawing these conclusions, you should draw upon the concepts and cases covered in this course.

 

8. Appendices. The required appendices include: 

(a) indicators of the organization’s size (annual sales & no. of employees); 

(b) a chart for the overall organization structure; 

(c) a chart for the structure of the IS department;

(d) a list of the individual interviewed for the projects, including their names and titles, and the date and approximate duration of each interview; and 

(e) a list of all the articles referred in the report.