The assignment tasks
Assignment 1 (25%) – Essay: 2,000 words (maximum including references)
Identify a problem in your organisation that might benefit from an improved information system or an internal technological development that can be associated with one of the themes below. Then you can select ONE of the Information Systems issues listed below and discuss the implications of it to your organisation. In doing so, you will need to use references from academic journal articles mostly in order to inform your perspective. Also, you should reference related aspects of the IFD as appropriate and make connections with the IFD.
IS themes
1. Information Systems Security (Cybersecurity)
2. Information Management Strategy
3. Organisational change and IS
4. Information Systems Outsourcing
5. Governance and Ethics
6. Information Systems Development
(This list is broadly based on the topics of the lectures to allow you to select a topic of current concern both to Information Systems AND to your own organisation/situation.)
All references used need to be listed and they need to adhere to the Harvard referencing Style. Follow: http://www2.hull.ac.uk/lli/referencing/harvard.html to see how you should format your references. You can use the Endnote software to help you in formatting.
Assignment 2 (25%) – Information Flow Diagram: no description required – only the Diagram needs to be uploaded based on the specification
Draw an Information Flow Diagram (IFD) of (part of) your organisation. This should be related to Part 1 (in other words, what you design in the IFD will need to reflect the description in the first part of the assignment). You are free to use whatever software programme you’d like to in order to draw the IFD (e.g. Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, etc) though one easy & free web-based application for such designs that we will review in brief is http://draw.io
Note: Submission of the IFD will be accepted only as an electronic design (e.g. as a high-resolution image of jpg, png types or in PDF form). Drawing the diagram by hand and scanning it is not acceptable.
