Objective:
This is an individual assignment aimed to give students the experience to design and implement an effective project proposal relating to business and information systems. This will help the students to achieve all learning outcomes while conducting own project proposal.
Learning Outcomes covered:
1. Design and implement an effective project proposal relating to business and information systems.
2. Critically review existing academic literature relevant to an area of research.
3. Appraise the different research techniques and tools.
4. Evaluate, assess and choose research methods.
Instructions to students
As part of your bachelor program you are expected to complete a "Project". Select an appropriate project from the given below which you will be doing as part of your final year project for XYZ organization and submit a Project Proposal for the same:
- Transaction Processing Systems
- Customer Relationship Management System
- Business Intelligence Systems
- Knowledge Management Systems
- Human Resource Management Systems
- Financial Management Systems
- Supply Chain Management Systems
Choose any one of the above or any other Business Information Systems Development project of your liking (if you are choosing any other system, prior approval from your faculty need to be taken) and perform the following tasks. You are expected to work individually in preparing the project proposal.
Task 1:
Submit a work proposal for this assignment by the end of week 7. This should include
a) Understanding of deliverables - a detailed description of deliverables including the general overview of proposed plan - initial understanding of Task 2.
c) Timeline for the completion of Task 2.
The work proposal must be submitted in a word file through the link available in Moodle.
Task 2:
Submit a project proposal by the end of week 9 which must include:
- Project title and abstract
o Prepare a clear and well defined working title and abstract that summarize your project idea.
- Background study
o Give a detailed introduction to the project undertaken specifying the aim of your project. Prepare your understanding of the field of study by critically analyzing the pertinent work of other investigators (literature review) leading up to your proposed work.
- Research questions
o Prepare the research questions that sets out to answer the research problem specific to the project chosen
- Project Objectives
o Prepare objectives that follows SMART system
- Proposed methodology
o Prepare the research methods you intend to go about investigating the research questions. Also provide justification of your choice.
- Bibliography
o Prepare the referred articles using Harvard referencing style.
- Timeline
o Prepare the timeline with respect to the project undertaken.