Aim To demonstrate a full understanding of broader Business IS/e-business system applications and management issues and to apply the theories to a specific example. There is one part: 1500 words essay report (100% weight) Assessment 1 Assessment specification 1. Module code and title BS938E-Business Technology and Management 2. Module tutor Professor Shujun Zhang 3. Tutor with responsibility for this Assessment Professor Shujun Zhang This is your first point of contact. 4. Assignment 01 100 % Coursework: Individual, standard written 1500 ±10% words You will be penalised according to the Academic Regulations for Taught Provision if you exceed the size limit. 5. Submission deadline Your attention is drawn to the penalties for late submission; see Undergraduate Modular Handbook. Tuesday 23thMay 2017 Your attention is drawn to the penalties for late submission; 6. Arrangements for submission Steve Hicks, Therese Lepicard 7. Date and location for return of work Written feedback and a provisional mark will be available on 19st June 2017 from Therese Lepicard 8. Students with Disabilities Alternative assessment arrangements may be made, where appropriate, for students with disabilities. However, these will only be implemented upon the advice of the Disability Advisor. Students wishing to be considered for alternative assessment arrangements must give notification of the disability (with evidence) to the Disability Advisor by the published deadlines. 9. University Regulations for Assessment All assessments are subject to the Academic Regulations for Taught Provision. These include regulations relating to Errors of Attribution and Assessment Offences. In exercising their judgement, Examiners may penalise any work where the standard of English, numeracy or presentation adversely affects the quality of the work, or where the work submitted exceeds the published size or time limits, or where the work fails to follow normal academic conventions for acknowledging sources. 10. Requirements for Assessment 1: You are required to write one report: Target length:1500±10% words Task Choose and specify a particular business/e-Business application, or a suite of business/e-Business applications, from your place of work, or of a business with which you are familiar or of a virtual business with practical business application functions. For example, the business/e-business application can be e-marketing, B2B, B2C, M-commerse, ERP, SCM, or CRM or CAD/CAM etc. Please get advice from your tutor. Describe the relevance and context of this application, discuss the existing system architecture, how is it integrated with other systems and analyse if there are any alternatives to this approach. Evaluate what impact this application(s) has on your organisation’s competitiveness and the business processes. Discuss what the rest of the industry sector is doing for your selected application(s). Analyse and synthesise your findings and propose the future road map for this particular application(s). The detail suggestions of the report will be discussed during the Essay - Preparation Sessions. 11. Special Instructions None. 12. Assessment 1 criteria MSc Computing Assessment Guide will be used. You need to achieve at least 50% to pass this assessment. MSc Computing Assessment Guide % Grade Knowledge - Relevant factual content; with appropriate material; supported by a range of reading Comprehension – The understanding of principles, methods, tools, models demonstrated by summarising and reshaping of ideas with awareness of scope and scale, expressed in correct English Application – of abstractions to concrete ideas, meeting requirements; using project management; quality considerations; application of tools and methods. Analysis – identifying component parts; discerning hierarchies and relationships with supporting evidence relating to underlying principles. Synthesis – combining elements to produce new patterns, structures and arguments, which might be abstract; applying knowledge to new situations Evaluation – using (qualitative or quantitative) judgement in applying criteria to processes and artefacts; stating and defending a position; self-criticism 0-29 Fail little knowledge given, errors, content weak or not relevant limited demonstration of understanding, errors, inconsistent; poor English some sub-components working but generally poor application no significant analysis or contains errors no significant evidence of synthesis no significant judgement 30-39 To Reassess not adequate for credit, recoverable with limited effort not adequate, limited knowledge, some errors, some irrelevant information not adequate, some understanding shown, though with some errors, vague, inconsistent. inadequate application; does not correctly meet requirements, some elements need reworking some areas of analysis adequate but others lacking, analytical errors inadequate synthesis inadequate evaluation 40-49 Pass adequate for credit, generally satisfactory & some areas good satisfactory knowledge, small errors tolerated but some areas good overall understanding is satisfactory but variable, good expression of ideas through English,. adequate application, might be variable, best approach not always taken, basic requirements met adequate analysis, might be variable, mainly descriptive limited scope or depth satisfactory synthesis but limited scope, depth and abstraction satisfactory evaluation but limited in scope or depth 50-59 Pass good & consistent good knowledge, effective use of appropriate terminology good, consistent, coherent, clear intention communicated good application ,meeting requirements, with evidence of testing good, consistent analysis, good weighting of evidence, good synthesis with clear scope or depth good evaluation with clear scope or depth 60-69 Merit very good very good, comprehensive knowledge gathered from wide breadth of reading , very good comprehension; understands effects of scale on problems and solutions. very good application showing good design principles and quality approaches very good analysis; recognises assumptions and structures which may be subtle or complex, very good synthesis, with broad scope, depth and abstraction very good evaluation with effective judgement and broad scope or depth 70-79 Distinction excellent excellent knowledge; deep coverage of relevant facts excellent comprehension excellent application with supporting evidence of high quality as above but excellent analysis excellent synthesis; some innovation & originality shown excellent evaluation; applies critera and develops new criteria 80-100 Distinction Outstanding; for marks above 90% every category must be consistently superlative as above excellent comprehension of very wide range of principles and concepts; lucidly expressed excellent application; products very resilient or novel, wider considerations applied excellent analysis in particularly demanding assessment, dissertation or project, original analytical approach, explains fully all possibilities and limitations inherent in the task as above but highly original approach,breaks new ground in research subject, creative, talented excellent evaluation, effectively develops new criteria, strong sense of original approach, supremely effective critical writing, gone beyond accepted critical positions Note that the overall grade will be determined by the application of the MSc Computing Assessment Criteria.