BUSINESS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES MANAGEMENT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY III (MIT316D) ASSIGNMENT 1 - MEMORANDUM CHAPTER 1-3 2023 LEARNING OUTCOMES: In this research assignment you will:

• Demonstrate the ability to analyse theory content.
• Apply basic information literacy search methods.

EXECUTE THE ASSIGNMENT ACCORDING TO THE FOLLOWING GUIDELINES: 1. This is an individual assignment. 2. Your assignment should be typed. Answer all the questions. 3. Ensure that you continue to apply the basic formatting rules when answering the questions: Arial, 11 font size, single line spacing. Marks will be deducted for incorrect formatting used in the template file. 4. You will lose marks for questions not answered. 5. Answer the questions as thorough and comprehensive as possible. 6. Provide a reference list for all the sources that you cited in the assignment. 7. It will take you approximately 3 weeks to complete the assignment. Save your work carefully since it will be difficult to catch up on lost content. 8. The due date is the 27^th of February 2023, at 23:59 on myTUTor. No hardcopies shall be received. QUESTION 1[19]

1. One of the greatest gifts is to be employed doing work that you love. Reflect for a moment on a job that you would find so exciting that you could hardly wait to get to sleep on Sunday night so that you could wake up and go to work on Monday.

1. Describe that job. Name the industry, the type of company or organization for which youd like to work, the product and services it produces, and your specific job duties. (6)

1. Explain what it is about that job that you find so compelling. (2)

1.3 Describe the type of technology or computer programs that are used in the job. (2)

1. In what ways will the skills of abstraction, systems thinking, collaboration and experimentation facilitate your success in that job? (4)

1. Based on your response to previous questions, define five personal goals for this job. Be as specific as possible. Assume that you are going to evaluate yourself on these goals at the end of the quarter or semester. The more specific you make these goals, the easier it will be to perform the evaluation. (5)

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QUESTION 2 [3]

1. Consider costs of a system considering the five components: (1) costs to buy and maintain the hardware; (2) costs to develop or acquire licenses to the software programs and costs to maintain them; (3) costs to design databases and fill them with data; (4) costs of developing procedures and keeping them current; and finally, (5) human costs both to develop and use the system. Many experts believe that, over the lifetime of a system, the single most expensive component is people.

1. Does this belief seem logical to you? Explain in detail when you agree or disagree. (3)

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QUESTION 3 [4]

1. Consider a poorly developed system that does not meet its defined requirements. The needs of the business do not go away, but they do not conform themselves to the characteristics of the poorly built system. Therefore, something must give.

To answer question 3.1 and 3.2 correctly, consider both direct money costs as well as intangible personnel costs.

1. Which component picks up the slack when the hardware and software programs do not work correctly? (1)

1. What does this say about the cost of a poorly designed system? (1)

1. What does this say about the need for your involvement in requirements and other aspects of systems development? (1)

1. Who eventually will pay the cost of a poorly developed system? (1)

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QUESTION 4 [5]

1. Consider the four definitions of information presented in chapter 1.

1. When you give a copy of your transcripts / CV to a prospective employer, explain how is that information produced? (2)

1. What part of that information production process do you control? (1)

1. What can you do to improve the quality of information that the employer conceives? (1)

1. Give your own best definition of information. (1)

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QUESTION 5[4]

1. You have been appointed as a Data Capture at your local government hospital. Your duties include, amongst others, to collect, process, disseminate and store data. This data you collected is one of the most sensitive types of data. There are strict laws that govern how these data are captured, stored, and used.

1. What, if anything, can you do to ensure the safeguarding of data? (2)

1. Explain in detail some of the risks and liabilities facing companies if they decide to use wearable technologies to monitor employees? (2)

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QUESTION 6[2]

1. Information security strategy has changed over the past decades due to advancements in technology.

1. What do these changes mean for you personally in managing and securing your own personal systems and data? (2)

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QUESTION 7[2]

1. Conduct an internet search on insider threats. Besides some of the high-profile cases of employees stealing and selling or distributing corporate data, what other examples can you find? (2)

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QUESTION 8[3]

1. The Internet of Things is not solely focused on home automation or private consumer products. Businesses are using the Internet of Things (IoT) to manage supply chains and streamline various business processes.

1. What benefits or risks are associated with businesses adopting new Internet-enabled devices? (3)

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QUESTION 9[8]

1. Choose four organizations in a particular industry and compare their strategies and analyze how the information system could be used for each organization to gain competitive advantage.

Students must give the name of the organization and explain how information systems has helped it to gain competitive advantage over others whether within or across the sector, e.g Apples iTune stores which makes music to be accessible online and anywhere is classified as having competitive strategy of lower cost across the industry. If students use the same company for both within and across the industry is still fine we must accept.

1. The first organization should follow the competitive strategy of lower cost across the industry, (2)

1. the second organization should follow the competitive strategy of lower cost within the industry, (2)

1. the third organization should follow the competitive strategy of better service/products across the industry and (2)

1. the last organization should follow the competitive strategy of better products/services within an industry segment. (2)

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TOTAL: 50 MARKS

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