RECENT ASSIGNMENT

Assignment 1 SPECIFICATIONS CIS8011_Digital Innovation
DUE ON 3 January 2014
Assignment 1 (30%) (1500 words maximum)

This assignment continues on from the journals you produced earlier. You are expected to write a thoroughly analysed report on the following:

The organization you have selected for journals 1 and 2 will be used to complete assignments 1 and 2. Assume that you have been hired as a management consultant to the selected organization. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) requested you to investigate the issues identified in journal 1 to further explore how such issues would adversely affect the organisation if the organisation existed to continue its operations. Further, the CEO is specifically interested in understanding the current development in the industry in terms of digital innovations and how these innovations would influence strategic planning processes in the organization. Your task is to provide a comprehensive discussion as to how these digital innovations may improve the organisation’s their strategic planning processes, especially in offering services to their customers, in the current global climate. For this purpose you will focus on advantages.

The CEO of the selected business/organization is keen to see the following key elements investigated and reported:
1. Brief background of the selected organisation
2. Synthesis of digital innovation for the selected organization
3. Critical analysis of positive influences these innovations can bring to their customers
4. How these positive influences would influence strategic planning of the organization

For the purposes of this assignment, you may choose innovative processes or innovative digital technologies or a combination of both. Your scope is to identify various elements of strategic planning processes applicable to the chosen organization (you will need to search very specific literature in this domain), and then discuss how the innovative processes and innovative technologies will impact the strategic planning processes.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

TURNITIN report
For this assignment, you MUST use a plagiarism application to ensure that the assignment is plagiarism-free. Please note that the report generation can take time through TURNITIN and you are asked to submit your assignment through TURNITIN well in advance to avoid last minute delays. Normally, it is hard to put the percentage number correctly as it all depends on the actual report contents produced by the TRUNITIN application. As a general rule, less than 15% is acceptable. It is the student’s responsibility to have the report ready before the due date. (If you do not provide this you will lose marks)

Digital file naming convention
For all assessment items digital file naming convention: When you have an assessment item you need to upload digitally, please use the following naming convention when saving your digital document: (If you do not follow this you will lose marks)

Student last name_assignment #_CIS8011_Student USQ ID

For example, the first assignment for CIS8011 submitted by John Smith, student #005890420163. If I (Mr. John Smith) were uploading this assessment item, the file would be named as follows:

Smith_A1_CIS8011_005890420163.doc

File format and submission
Only PDF or ZIP format of the final report is accepted through EASE system. Other formats such as .rar are not acceptable as our markers have difficulties in opening these formats or we have difficulties in downloading these from EASE.