Select an emerging theme that you wish to investigate. It may include, social medial, virtual environment, corporate and social responsibility, or any other recent advances. You may visit a site to check the recent call for conference papers, like the one below.
a. Go to the ECIS 2020 conference page on the conference website and view the full programme (PDF).
b. There are a number of tracks (or themes) provided to authors. You may select any one of these themes as the title of your paper. Alternatively, you may take any of these topics and narrow it down to a particular interest of yours.
Decide on the direction of your research and a company for which you will conduct a case study. Your research should be of interest to current societal needs and be applied on a case organisation.
a. Carry out a background research on your chosen topic. The aim of this step is for you to find out what is current in the chosen topic, and what research has been carried out so far. This will help you to decide the direction of your research.
b. You must select an organisation which you will be investigating as a case example in your essay. This should be a suitably large corporation on which you will apply the concepts of information system strategy and management.
c. Select an appropriate title for your essay. The research carried out so far should help you in this.
a. Office, process and document automations have changed the business atmosphere in terms of operations and co-operations. Evaluate, with examples, how your chosen organisation has adapted the technology that has facilitated the changes in working practices and habits, productivity and management efficiencies.
b. Critically discuss and evaluate the benefits and drawbacks of implementing such technology in the organisation.
c. Competitive advantage is one of the benefits businesses strive to achieve in the application and use of information systems. Critically analyse with the aid of diagrams, models and/or frameworks, how the organisation can achieve efficiency by implementing the technology that you are proposing.
d. Outline the threats, security and other challenges that your proposed technology can impose on the organisation. What recommendations do you have to protect this organisation from these threats?
