Assignment title: Management


Identify the elements of hardware and software used for the transmission, storage and retrieval of information. • Demonstrate how the quality of management decision making is enhanced by information systems Percentage of marks awarded for Assignment: Essay Why is it important for business to address information technology as an assemblage? In your essay you should select TWO stories from the Live News exercise you fulfil in each week's tutorial. Using Actor Network Theory as your primary tool for analysis:  Evaluate how Information Technology can be seen as an assemblage.  Identify how the information technology assemblage can enhance the transmission, storage and retrieval of information. Use business case studies to illustrate your argument.  Critically analyse the issues/questions these actions raise for business. Do this by comparing and contrasting the viewpoints of relevant theorists and critics. 1350- 1650 words. essay structure Cover Page Assignment title, module code, student name, student number and submission date. Table of Contents A list of all the chapters, sections, headings or subheadings, as well as all page numbers. Introduction ○ Explain how you intend to address the question. ○ What issues/topics are you going to explore? What argument will you make? Main body (about 80% of the essay) Use a chain of paragraphs to EXPLORE AND DEVELOP your ideas/argument. You will probably have 3 to 4 main ideas. Break each idea into paragraphs, possibly 2 per idea. Perform substantial amounts of analysis and point making in each paragraph. In each paragraph the reader is asking you to explain: ○ What is this paragraph about? ○ What is your argument on this? ○ What is your evidence? What does it mean? ○ How does it link to the essay title?