This is an assignment I use in a 27hour Managers and Information Systems
course on the MBA(IT&Management).
The students, working in 2s or 3s, are required to find an information
need in a company or organisation and broadly specify an Information
system to meet the need. If an IT system is not appropriate - then they go
looking for another need!
They are required to give a brief outline of the system, using business
English terminology only and no technical terms.
The questions they specifically have to answer are;
what is the purpose of the system?
what business need does it meet?
what are the benefits for stakeholder?
how they set about the task of determining requirements
what techniques they used to understand the business problem
how they might communicate with and involve the stakeholders
which aspects of the work went well and
which things they would do differently next time
what are the impacts on other parts of the business
how the implementation is to be effected;
I usually phrase this - how would you ensure that the expected
benefits are achieved and the unexpected ones identified.
I put a limit on the number of words in their response.
Anne
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Anne Leeming tel +44 0171 477 8623 fax +44 (0)171 477 8628
Director MBA(IT&Management), Department of Management Systems and Information
City University Business School, Barbican Centre, London EC4Y 8HB, UK
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