Assignment- Executive Report and Presentation

Presentation- scheduled sessions

Paper- scheduled

This is a group assignment. Each group should consist of 3-4 students. Each group must email a list of members to the workshop leader after forming a group.

Background

Modern day Enterprise systems (ES) deliver the fundamentals benefits of integrating processes, optimization and delivering efficiency across many areas. These are core benefits expected in any implementation and the ES is primarily configured to provide the functional business needs. However, ES can be leverage to provide further second-wave digital benefits for a business by facilitating:

Innovation- reflecting the creation of novel or different products, services or businesses processes, or even disruptive business models,
Automation- reflecting the situation where the ES is aligned with the subsequent replacement of manually undertaken tasks,

Decision-making- reflecting capabilities that allow the vast amounts of data collected by a firm to be analyzed by advanced methods and inform peoples decisions,

Connectivity- reflecting how the ES enables closer cooperation, engagement and interactivity amongst important external or internal entities (connectivity does not refer to the technology used but the business benefits).

The scenario

You work for a large organization and the CEO has recently attended industry, academic and SAP events and heard that other firms are leveraging their enterprise wide systems in these four areas. Accordingly, you have been requested to prepare a research report and a presentation on how the firm's enterprise systems can be used to deliver value in these four areas (assume that your firm has a system already in place). Use at least 2 case study examples for each of the four areas in your report showing what benefits can be achieved by firms. Notably benefits may span multiple areas and this issue should be explored in the paper.

The report must be written for management. Each group will prepare and deliver a PowerPoint presentation on the findings documented in the report.

The 20-30 minute presentation is to be for a management audience. Please do not to use text intense slides with detailed bullet points as you would find in an academic environment - remember that management will have a copy of the full report. Slides should only be used to illustrate relationships between concepts- so try and use relevant images, tables, maps, charts, graphs, etc where appropriate for the presentation.

Each group member is to prepare and present their part of the presentation, but the presentation must flow- appearing consistent and seamless.

Assignment Details

The report should be some 4000 words in length and demonstrate depth and breadth of reading. All reports are to be submitted to the Assessment Dropbox link in Collaborate allowing a Turnitin similarity report to be generated. Hence, only one student in the group should submit the paper to check for similarity.

Your report must include:

Title Page Includes the title of the paper, date, student names and student IDs.

Executive Summary This is an overview of the report which identifies the purpose of the report, directs the reader to key points or issues presented in the report, and summarises conclusions. (Maximum length is 1 page).

Table of Contents Headings used should assist the reader to find information in the report.

Introduction A statement of the purpose for the report and a brief description of its structure. Some discussion of the context and reason for the report is often included as well. This is where the assignment question (s) should be re-stated. Include the paper's structure.
Body Present the different issues that have been previously documented on the topic using a variety of research articles and industry examples. Please make sure your discussion matches the stated purpose of the report and include the cases study throughout. Discuss and support any conclusions that can be reached using the evidence provided by the research articles you have found. Note: details about the different industry cases studies should not be a standalone section of the paper.