The Aim:

This assignment aims to familiarize and expose students to the world of management of information technology as it is being practiced in IS organizations today as well as improving students' effective communication and team working skills.

The Process:

· select one topic

· assigned at least to one distinct area of the report's body to undertake.

· Support your report with evidence of Academic Research from Journal Sources such as Harvard Business Review.

Discussion questions to select the Topic:

1. How can organizations develop confidence in the security of their networked systems when they have the capability to open their systems to almost any network?

2. If a corporate policy is needed for deciding when the development, operation, and maintenance of an application should be distributed, who in the organization should take part in establishing such policy and why?

3. How can a client-server based architecture cause a firm to change or rethink its activities associated with a business process?

4. What is it that makes IT architecture a crucial component of business planning in an e-commerce environment?

5. Considering the hierarchical, network, relational, and object data models, which one would be the better choice to support the distribution of data across a network and why?

6. Why might it be that the use of DBMS has only reduced to some extent (but not solved) the problems of inconsistent and redundant data in organizations?

7. Why is it that whenever data crosses organizational boundaries, its definition and format need to be standardized?

8. Given that Data warehouses do not usually contain the latest (i.e. real-time) data, what does this imply about their capability to support decision-making?

or any topic u like to discuse.

Deliverables:

1. Final Written Report should include:

a. Tables of content.

b. Introduction.

c. Report's body should include at least 4 parts.

d. Conclusion.

e. List of references at least 4 references.

Note

· The report should include 7 to 10 pages (around 1000-1500 words).

· Using MSW 12 point Time New Romans font, MSW 14 points for heading, 1.5 Line spacing for each paragraph

· Attaching the original copies of references.

· The report will get a Zero if any Plagiarized paragraph is found.