BIS 219 Business Information Systems /Complete Class Assignments & DQs
BIS 219 WEEK 1
BIS 219 Week 1 Individual Assignment: Information Systems and Software Applications
Research software applications and information systems available for the various organizational departments within a company, such as accounting, finance, HR, marketing, and management.
Choose three of the aforementioned organizational departments and prepare a 350- to 700-word essay that provides an overview of these applications and systems.
Discuss how your selected applications relate to the organizational departments.
Include an introduction and a conclusion.
Format your paper according to APA standards.
BIS 219 WEEK 2
BIS 219 Week 2 Individual Assignment: Club IT, Part One
Resources: Club IT, Part One, reading supplement.
Prepare a 700- to 1050-word essay that addresses the following:
Club ITs mission and primary clientele
Club ITs information resources include intranet resources; for example, the password to log-in is clubit. Resources also include the role of the IT department and how its information resources are managed.
Choose one of the different strategies for competitive advantage listed in Ch. 2 of the Rainer and Turban text, which presents cost leadership, differentiation, innovation, operational effectiveness, and customer orientation. Describe the kinds of information Club IT would need to pursue that strategy.
Include an introduction and a conclusion.
Format your paper according to APA standards.
BIS 219 WEEK 3
BIS 219 Week 3 Learning Team Assignment: Amazon.com Evolution
Resources: Ch. 1 of Introduction to Information System.
Prepare a 700- to 1,050-word essay describing Amazons strategy in which you address the following:
Discuss whether the company is moving away from its core competency of being a leading online retailer.
Present areas where Amazon.com is competing with Google and Microsoft®, and whether competition is a wise strategy.
Address the uses of the Amazon.com database: possible data management issues; and the relationship amongst Amazons data, information, and knowledge.
Describe how Amazon.com uses e-business and e-commerce for B2B and B2C.
Include an introduction and a conclusion.
Format your paper according to APA standards.
BIS 219 WEEK 4
BIS 219 Week 4 Individual Assignment: Club IT, Part Two
Resources: Club IT, Part One; Club IT, Part Two
Evaluate the IT status of the business using the information you have gathered from your review of the Club IT Web site and interviews with Ruben and the staff.
Prepare a 700- to 1,050-word essay including the following:
Identify three business problems that you see at Club IT.
Evaluate Club ITs resources, customers, and supply chain.
Provide three detailed IT solutions to resolve the three problems.
Incorporate enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and supply chain management (SCM) software into your solutions.
Discuss how the various departments within Club IT may use your solutions.
Include an introduction and a conclusion.
Format your paper according to APA standards.
BIS 219 WEEK 5
BIS 219 Week 5 Individual Assignment: Club IT, Part Three
Resources: Club IT, Part One; Club IT, Part Two; Club IT, Part Three.
Prepare a 4- to 7-slide PowerPoint® presentation addressing the following:
Identify the ROI and NPV of the wireless order-taking system. Discuss some of the intangibles Lisa needs to consider and make a recommendation as to whether Lisa should order such a system.
Research some executive dashboard products, identify information that Lisa and Ruben would likely find useful presented in a dashboard, and how they would use the information. Make recommendations as to which product you would recommend for Club IT.
Choose one of the technology project development methodologies described in the readings and explain how you would go about the systems analysis effort. Identify what information is needed for whom, when, and in what format. Additionally, consider what major stakeholders you would interview, and how you would proceed to gather information to make an informed decision.
Provide a description of how you envision this project would proceed through the systems development life cyclewhat would happen in each phase?
BIS 219 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment: Where Did You Find that Book?
Resources: Case Study 7-1 of Managing and Using Information Systems
Prepare a 10- to 15-slide PowerPoint® presentation with speaker notes based on the comparison of the three bookstores in which you address the following:
Define the business models of all three of the bookstores and discuss how all are competing with each other.
Contrast the Web sites of the three bookstores.
Discuss how all three of the book stores address ethical, legal, and security issues.
Identify the communication technologies used by each bookstore.
Include appropriate graphics to highlight major points.
Format your slides with bullets and use no more than seven sentences per slide.
Three Discussion Questions for Each Week are Included.
