CIS 500 Week 3 Assignment 1 The CEO’s Challenge

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Assignment 1: The CEO’s Challenge

Due Week 3 and worth 150 points

You’ve just left an all-hands meeting at your company*. The CEO was very upset at the rise of shadow IT projects – a major indicator that the company’s internal information system has failed to meet its needs.

Because the current information system is inadequate, inefficient, and outdated, the CEO is inviting everyone in the organization to propose a new operational, decision support, or enterprise information system to replace it. The executives have allocated $5 million to fund the most promising idea.

This is your chance to make a difference in the company (not to mention your own career). Write your proposal as a memo that the entire C-suite will review. Include at least these points, in your own words, to be persuasive:

1. 1. Identify the main functions of your proposed information system and why they are important to the business.

1. 2. Describe what types of data your information system will hold and how data quality will be ensured.

1. 3. Explain how the old information system handles the functions you mentioned, the problems that occur, and why your information system will handle things better.

1. 4. Offer evidence of feasibility: Show that similar information systems have been built successfully and that they save more money than they cost.

The executives are busy, so keep your memo to 1-4 pages and avoid any extraneous content.

*You may use a current or former employer, but do not disclose anything confidential. Or, you can pick another organization if you are familiar with their internal (not customer-facing) information systems. You can disguise the organization and populate it with famous names. Made-up companies are problematic because of the amount of detail and realism they require.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.

Points: 150			Assignment 1: The CEO’s Challenge
		Unacceptable		Fair		Proficient		Exemplary
Criteria		Below 70% F		70-79% C		80-89% B		90-100% A
1. Identify the main		Inadequate or no		Proposed an		Proposed an		Explained the
functions of your		information system		information system		original information		stylistic choices for
proposed information						system		architecture of
system and why they are		Limited information		Somewhat				information system
important to the
		on the system		identified the main		Identified the main
business.
		proposed,		functions		functions of the		Connected main
		inadequate detail				system		functions of system
Weight: 20%				Importance of main				to business needs
(30 points)								and shadow IT
		Main functions and		functions are		Explained the
		importance unclear		unclear		importance of each
						function to the
						business
2. Describe what types of		Inadequate		Described data		Described the data		Explained the
data your information		description of data		types, somewhat		types in the system		system storage and
system will hold and how		types		connected to the				interaction with data
data quality will be				system		Explained how the
ensured.
		Inadequate				system would hold		Considered the
		connection of data		Somewhat		each data type		impacts of cost and
Weight: 25%		storage to the		explained the data				maintenance on
(37.5 points)		system		storage in system		Proposed how data		data quality
						quality would be
		Inadequate		Reasonable		ensured
		explanation of data		explanation of data
		quality measures		quality measures
3. Explain how the		Limited description		Somewhat		Explained how the		Described why
functions you mentioned		of old system, no		explained functions		main functions are		inefficiencies of
are being handled by the		explanation of		handled by the old		being handled by		maintenance in the
old information system,		functions		information system		the old information		old system persist
the problems that occur,						system
and why your information		Inadequate problem		Reasonable				Provided options for
system will handle things
		identification with		description of		Described the		keeping the system
better.
		old system		problems of the old		problems of the old		separate,
				system		system		integrating with old,
Weight: 25%		Limited justification						or scaling up/down
(37.5 points)								based on business
		for selecting new		Reasonable		Justified why the
								needs
		system over the old		justification for how		new system can
		one		the new system is		handle things better
				better than the old		than the old system

4. Offer evidence of	Inadequate or	Identified one	Identified similar,	Explained what
feasibility: Show that	unsuccessful	similar, successful	successful	makes the
similar information	system selected	information system	information systems	information system
systems have been built				identified similar to
successfully and that	Limited	Somewhat	Demonstrated cost	yours
they save more money
	demonstration of	demonstrated cost	savings comparison
than they cost.
	cost savings	savings comparison		Demonstrate how
			Defended how the	the new system
Weight: 20%				outperforms similar
	Inadequate defense	Reasonable	new system could
(30 points)				systems
	of the new system	comparison of the	operate similarly to
	to others	new system to other	successful systems
		systems
5. Clarity, persuasion,	Unclear structure,	Somewhat clear	Clear structure,	No grammatical
proper communication,	not persuasive,	structure, limited	persuasive writing,	errors, plain
writing mechanics, and	major grammatical	persuasion,	minor or no	language,
formatting requirements	errors	grammatical errors,	grammatical errors,	organized by topic,
		language too simple	length and format	references business
Weight: 10%		or too wordy	within requirements,	needs, connects to
			plain language	technical specs,

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