Question: You can select any one topic

Write an original research report consisting of one of the following topic areas:

1) Virtual Organizations

2) Network Organizations

3) Spin-out Organizations

4) Ambidextrous Organizations

5) Front-Back Organizations

6) Sense and Response Organizations.

The following outline (unrelated to the subject matter of the research report) may help in your understanding of the research report via analysis & synthesis.

1) Introduction:

a) Introduce the 2 DB implementations plans. Add history and relative significance of each consumer and DB products.

b) One implementation should be a database that was essentially successful.

c) The second implementation should be a database that had significant "challenges".

d) What type of research papers was used (case study, empirical, etc.)?

2) Describe, compare/contrast, and evaluate two (2) database - ANALYSIS

a) What is the problem driving the implementation? What is ‘going wrong' or what ‘problem' was expected to be addressed?

b) What were the implementation requirements

i) Expectations

ii) Project requirements

iii) DB requirements

iv) Planed resources & time expectations

c) What were the risks and impact if the implementation failed?

3) Provide a SYNTHESIS of the 2-implementation plans.

a) What specific issues addressed by article X were also addressed in article Y, and how do they compare?

b) What issues addressed by article X (or Y) may have been addressed by an alternate solution?

4) Findings

a) What does your evidence show?

5) Conclusions

a) What make one DB implementation a success and the other have significant challenges?

b) What mitigating factors were, or should have been, considered?

6) Recommendations

a) Future investigation

7) Reference List