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Start your introductory paragraph(s)
here (i.e., delete all of my paragraphs of instruction after reading through
them, and replace them with your own paragraphs for your essay). Leave the font for your essay on Arial 10,
double-spaced (except for the reference page, which is single spaced). Leave the margins at 1 inch. Leave page numbering set to automatically
number each page of the body of your essay in the upper-right corner of the
page (the title page and reference page should not be numbered). The body of your essay should be 3-4 pages
long (minimum of 1500 words), not including your title page and reference page.
Write free flowing text (allow your writing
to automatically wrap around to the next line as you type – do not hit Enter at
the end of each line within a paragraph).
Organize your essay into paragraphs within each section, but make sure
all writing is in prose paragraphs (full sentences and complete
paragraphs). Do not use lists in your essay
and do not write in bullet statements.
The only indentations you should have in your essay is one tab at the
start of each paragraph, just like I have modeled for you in the way I have
written these instructions. Do not put
blank lines between paragraphs and do not put blank lines before or after
section headings and sub-headings. You
may include images or tables in your essay, if you deem them appropriate, but
they do not count toward the 3-4 pages of body text that you are required to
write, so adjust the length of your essay accordingly to compensate for space taken
up by the images and/or tables.
You should customize the title page
by replacing the first two lines of text with your essay’s title and your name,
respectively. You should also replace
the heading at the top of this page with your essay’s title. However, do not modify or remove the section
sub-headings that appear below, throughout the rest of your essay (i.e., “Server-Side
Hardware Requirements,” “Server-Side Software Requirements,” “Client-Side
Hardware Requirements,” “Client-Side Software Requirements,” “Analysis of
Competitive Advantage,” “Recommendations for Improvement,” “Conclusion,” and
“References”) and do not add additional sub-headings. Leave all of the section sub-headings in
your document to keep it organized.
Everyone is required to write the same sections in their essay. You will analyze your own unique approved
information system, filling in each section of this template appropriately.
Write in your own words and remember
that your similarity rating must be 5%
or less. Try to paraphrase and
explain information you learn from your sources in your own words, rather than
quoting from your sources. Your
reference page does not count towards your 5% allowable similarity. To check this, after your TurnItIn report is
generated, there should be a filter you can click on in the report that will
bring up the option to “Exclude Bibliography.”
After selecting this option, your adjusted similarity rating needs to be
5% or less. I will select “Exclude
Bibliography” on all essays before grading them, to adjust the actual
similarity rating in your essay and confirm it is no more than 5%.
Your introductory paragraph(s)
should provide an overview of your information system, in light of the topics
you will be analyzing in this essay.
Make sure you do not re-use the same introduction you used in your first
essay, but that you write a new introduction appropriate for this essay. Also, try not to be overly redundant in your
introduction with what you have written (or will write) in the main sections in
the body of this essay. Rather, give the
reader an overview and whet their appetite to learn more about the aspects of your
information system that you will be covering in this essay.
Server-Side
Hardware Requirements
In this section, briefly describe
the server-side hardware requirements of the information system. If you do not
have access to specific information about the server-side hardware, you may
make educated assumptions for this section and describe a typical server-side
hardware configuration that you believe would be required to support your
information system. What types of
hardware servers do you think the system requires? File servers?
Web servers? Is the system large
enough that a server farm is required?
What types of hardware back-up devices might be used at the server end
of the system? Is there any other type
of hardware that might be required at the server end to support the information
system?
Server-Side
Software Requirements
In this section, briefly describe
the server-side software requirements of the information system. If you do not have access to specific
information about the server-side software, you may make educated assumptions
for this section and describe typical server-side software that you believe
would be required to support your information system. Be sure to identify any operating system
software, application software, cloud computing software and/or open source
software that your information system is likely to be using at the server end
of the system. Does the system require
custom software running on the server to manage the system? What type of database software might be used
at the server end to store the data input into the system? Is there any other type of software that
might be required at the server end to support the information system?
Client-Side
Hardware Requirements
In this section, briefly describe
the client-side hardware requirements of the information system. What types of
hardware devices can be used to access the information system? Be sure to consider desktop computers, laptop
computers, tablets, smartphones, and other handheld computing devices. Are there any other special types of hardware
that a user needs? If it is a military
system, is a CAC reader required to access the system?
Client-Side
Software Requirements
In this section, briefly describe
the client-side software requirements of the information system. Be sure to identify any operating system
software, application software, cloud computing software and/or open source
software that your information system is likely to be using at the client end
of the system. Is there special
client-side software that needs to be installed on the user’s computer? If it is a web-based information system, is
what type(s) of Web browsers can be used to access the system? Is any other special software required to
use the system?
Competitive
Analysis of the System
Note that this section of your essay is worth
20% of your grade on this essay. Together, the “Competitive Analysis of the
System” and the “Recommendations for Improving the System” sections of your essay
comprise half of your grade on this essay.
So make sure these two sections of your essay are through and
well-developed. These two sections
together should be the main focus of this essay.
In this section, you will analyze
how the information system gives a competitive advantage either to the users of
the system or to the company that created and maintains the system. Generally, if you are using a work-related
information system, the company using the system is doing so in order to gain a
competitive analysis over their rivals.
However, if you are using a personal web-based information system, you
may instead consider how the information system gives the company that created
and maintains the system a competitive advantage. For example, Best Buy has a comprehensive
web-based information system that customers can use for shopping online as well
as for managing their Best Buy rewards account and/or Best Buy credit card
account. If you were analyzing this
information system, you would analyze competitive advantage from the viewpoint
of Best Buy as a company. You would
analyze the ways in which their web-based system gives them a competitive
advantage over other electronics stores.
With some web-based information systems, you may be able to analyze
competitive advantage from the perspective of the company that created and
maintains the system, as well as from the perspective of some of the users of
the system. For example, the creator of
Facebook has managed to maintain a competitive advantage over similar rivals
such as MySpace and Google+ through the use of network effects, as well as
through advertising revenues, etc.
However, Facebook can also provide a competitive advantage to
organizations and business who use Facebook to advertise their products and
services and to communicate with their clients and customers.
Realize that all organizations (even
non-profits, government, and military organizations) are concerned about
gaining and/or maintaining a competitive advantage. For example our military’s rivals could be
considered foreign militaries. The
importance of our military being competitive with their rivals should be
self-evident. Although government exists
to serve its constituents, government organizations often need to concern
themselves with providing services that are competitive with industry. Otherwise, if government cannot run their
business efficiently, politicians and taxpayers may lobby for the work of
government to be outsourced to industry.
Even non-profits must be concerned about running their organization
efficiently and productively.
Non-profits often rely on grants or on government funding. If they cannot prove that they are
competitive, they could lose their funding.
These are just some of the ways in which your organization may be
concerned about gaining and maintaining a competitive advantage over their
rivals. Describe in your own words why
your organization needs to gain and maintain a competitive advantage and
explain who their “rivals” are (i.e., who they are competing against).
Once you understand why your
organization needs to maintain a competitive advantage, consider how this
information system can help your organization gain and maintain a competitive
advantage over their rivals. You may
want to review Porter’s Five Forces theory and apply this theory to your information
system to help determine ways that your system gives your organization (and/or
the organization that created and maintains the system) a competitive advantage. In light of the many challenges inherent in
the management of data and knowledge in today’s world, consider how the data
assets gathered through the information system might be harnessed to provide
business intelligence and a resulting competitive advantage to your
organization. Consider whether your
information system uses social media or Web 2.0 technologies to market or
promote the use and benefit of the information system to businesses and/or
potential customers. Also consider other
concepts you have learned in this course, such as network effects, in relation
to how your information system, can be used to gain and maintain a competitive
advantage.
If the finding of your analysis is
that your information system does not help your organization to gain and
maintain a competitive advantage over their rivals, then instead use this
section to explain why it does not. If
it does not, then consider what shortcomings of your system would need to be
addressed for the system to be able to provide a competitive advantage to users
of the system. You can then address
these shortcomings in the next section, by making specific recommendations to
correct these issues.
Recommendations
for Improving the System
Note that this section of your essay is worth
30% of your grade on this essay. Together, the “Competitive Analysis of the
System” and the “Recommendations for Improving the System” sections of your
essay comprise half of your grade on this essay. So make sure these two sections of your essay
are through and well-developed. These
two sections together should be the main focus of this essay.
In this section, you need to make at least
three concrete recommendations for improving or enhancing your information
system. Even if you think your
information system is the best system you’ve ever used, you cannot
simply say, “There is nothing I would recommend changing about this
system.” 30% of your grade on this essay is based on your full development
of three concrete recommendations for improving your information system, with
full details about how you would implement each of the three recommendations
for change. If you do not come up with recommendations for improving your
information system, then I cannot give you any credit for those 30 points. Fortunately, there are always things that can be
improved in any information system. You
need to think like an analyst or an entrepreneur and brainstorm for ideas that
could make your information system even better.
These recommendations need to be your own original ideas.
Think of this section as writing the design
specification for new features that you would like the developers of your
system to add to the next version of your system that they release. Each recommendation needs to be described
thoroughly in its own fully developed paragraph. Your recommendations should not just identify
a problem with the system, but should offer a specific, concrete solution
to that problem, along with a plan for how you would implement that solution.
The
types of recommendations I am looking for are improvements and enhancements to
the computer-based information system itself. I am primarily looking for you to
suggest new features and menu options that could be added to the system to make
it better. What additional functions would you like your information system to
be able to do? I am looking for your own original ideas. Other types of technical
recommendations you could make include specific ways you would add additional
back-up or redundancy capabilities, or specific hardware upgrades that might
increase the speed of the system.
Just make
sure that each recommendation you make is for a technical improvement to the system itself, and not a recommendation
for improving the company’s business practices in relation to
the use of the information system.
Managerial and organization issues related to the company’s business
practices that are not appropriate for this section
would be recommendations pertaining to training, use of the system, or issues
related to the cost of the system – I cannot give you credit for making
recommendations pertaining to how people use the system or how much the
system costs. Instead, focus
primarily on ideas for enhancing the functionality of the information system by
adding new features and menu options to the software itself. Your recommendations need to involve actual
changes to the software and/or hardware of the information system itself. Software changes would involve anything that
adds new features, menu options, and functionality to the system, or that
changes the user interface, layout, or navigation within the system. Hardware changes could involve addition of
backup devices, upgrades to the processor or other components, etc. In any case, you need to justify each
recommendation you make by explaining how it will solve an existing problem
with the system or enhance the system with new functionality. Be as specific as
possible about how you would implement each recommendation. For example, if you
recommend that the layout of the system’s graphical user interface be made more
user-friendly, then describe exactly what you would change about the layout to
improve the usability.
Conclusion
Finally, write your concluding
paragraph(s) in this section. Try to write a strong conclusion that both ties
your essay together and makes a strong final impact on the reader. Rather than simply re-stating what you have
already discussed, try to use this section to take the reader one step
further. There are many ways to do this
and I will leave it to your creativity to come up with an appropriate
conclusion for your essay!

References
List your references
in APA format on this page. I have set
this page to use hanging indentations (as required in APA references).

Also, APA references
are single-spaced, but you need to leave one blank line between each reference,
just like how my notes here are formatted.

Finally, make sure
that you have at least one corresponding in-text citation, in APA format, for
each reference that you list in your reference list.

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