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MIS310 Database Management Systems

Assignment 1

Project Proposal

Overview of the Project Proposal Assignment

This description of Assignment #1 is divided into five (5) parts, this overview and four additional sections, each reflecting a required section of Assignment #1

(A) Target of study

(B) Significance of target

(C) Data sources

(D) Project plan

Draft a project proposal that broadly describes the information system they intend to study in the post-implementation review.

The project proposal is the first and perhaps most critical component of the final project because the feedback and grade received from the instructor will clarify whether you selected a target of study that is appropriate and doable.

The project proposal will be between 4 and 6 pages (not counting the cover page that identifies student name or the bibliography or the supporting exhibits like the project schedule), double-line spaced & twelve point font.

(A) Target of study

Describe the organization being studied and the information system being studied. What firm or business is being studied?

To what industry sector (or sub-sector) does this organization belong?

What do organizations in this sector typically do

What are the services/products they produce/deliver? For example, if you are investigating MN-DOT, it is not enough to say that MN-DOT is a government agency, it is one of many public agencies that deals with Transportation and Highway infrastructure. What business activities does the firm, business or organization carry out?

How big is the organization? [Example: # of employees, assets, annual revenue]

What are the organization’s primary products or services that it manufactures/delivers? Who are its customers/constituencies and what are they looking for? What value-added does it provide its customers?

What is the information systems project that you will be studying for the four assignments making up the post-implementation review and report?

Is there an electronic commerce “angle” to the information system being studied? If so, what kind of electronic commerce is it? Business-to-Business (i.e. Supply chain management), Business-to-Consumer, or Internal (i.e. “Electronic Business”)?

What is the business process that is being supported or executed by this system or technology? It is very important to be able to describe this business process coherently and in a way that is discrete from the information systems itself. Without such description, it becomes very hard to evaluate the business case for the project. For example, the reader (i.e. instructor) should not need to have special expertise in the field of rural agriculture in order to make sense out of the information systems application that is being described.

(B) Significance of target

Why is this particular information system significant in the context of current and future business operations for this firm? What benefits does it appear to yield (this question will be addressed in greater detail in the last project assignment, but it is important that you begin trying to address this question even in this initial assignment, even if you can only provide a cursory description

What larger lesson might potentially be learned from this application by business professional in other firms and organizations (i.e. why is this particular application meaningful to the larger business world?)

(C) Data sources

Who will be your principle contacts/informants for this project at the target organization?

What inter-industry trade or professional organization(s) is (are) relevant to the operations of this firm

What types of data sources will be used (business periodicals/company literature etc.)

Why will these data sources be used (why are these data sources more readily available than others kinds of sources)

Please also include a preliminary list of articles and news stories and other sources that have been gathered on the final project topic and a summary of what has been learned about the so far.