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ITCS361: Introduction to Management Information Systems
Faculty of Information and Communication Technology
Project Phase 1 of Semester 1/2015
Score: 20 points
Due Date: Week 7 & Week 8
Objectives
In the high competitive world these days, the improvement of companies is extremely essential
and information system initiatives can help firms to perform more efficiently and effectively.
However, the initiatives should be developed from the understanding of the firm and these
initiatives should support the organizational objectives. Due to this, this project provides the
students to have an opportunity to apply knowledge, gained from ITCS 361, to the real
organization. The students must analyze the situation of the given organization and find the way
to improve its operations by using the MIS initiatives.
Topics
Study and identify the current status, direction, and goals of the company
Figure out what the company’s products and services are
Identify the position of the company in the strategic impact grid and explain the reason
Identify one most critical problems and minor problems that can be improve by MIS
initiatives. This improvement must satisfy the goal of the company.
From the current company situation, find out the opportunities that the company might
identify and use to gain competitive advantages
Identify the critical success factors of the company
Assess and summary current resources of the company
Give the summary of a value chain of company products and services
Concerned Issues
Plagiarism is not allowed for any cases.
Creativity in presentation is preferable.
Please keep in mind that you are acting as the consultant and your audience is the
committees of the company. You have to convince them to choose your consultant
company to implement the solutions of the current problems in the next phase.
Marking Scheme:
MIS Content stated above 15%
English Presentation 5%
Members: 5 students/group (could be 4 if there are remainders)
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Business Domain: Each group will be given the requirement through the use of the forum in the
eLearning.
Airlines
Automobile
Banking
Hotel
Hospital
Production Unit
School
Supermarket
Travel Agencies
Presentation:
The length of the presentation cannot exceed 15 minutes.
The Q&A session will be 5 minutes.
You can prepare your own laptop to present your work or you can use the PC in the class
room.
You are required to upload the folder stated below to the eLearning website by 11.55pm
on the day of your presentation.
Sec 1:
All parts of the scores will be given by Aj.Chatvatna.
Sec 2 & Sec 3:
Please print out 2 copies of your slide (4slides/page) and give them to the lecturer
on the day of your presentation
All members must give the presentation.
The scores will be split into 2 parts: one from the MIS lecturer for the content and
the English speaking scores from Aj. Farang.
What you MUST submit:
1. Powerpoint File: this is the presentation file that you need in the presentation session. You
need to name your file as “secX_ProjectDomain_GroupName” e.g. sec0_Tourism_Hello.
2. PDF File: this is the PDF version of your report file. You need to name your file as
“secX_ProjectDomain_GroupName”.
3. If you think there are other files you need to submit, you can do so.
4. if your group has a video file, please make it into the following formats: mp4, mpeg, avi, wma.
Please put the URL link of your file into the file name “secX_ProjectDomain_GroupName
_link.txt”.
5. Put all your files into one folder then name your folder as “secX_ProjectDomain_GroupName”.
After that, you need to compress this folder in the zip or rar formats and submit it via the
eLearning page. After your compression, the file size must not exceed 50MB.
6. Fail to follow the instruction will cost you to lose points.
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Note: every submission will be check for plagiarism in Turnitin system. If your project
similarity index is more than 25% your report score will be deducted for 80%.
You can visit http://www.li.mahidol.ac.th/form/turnitin-student.pdf for more information
about Turnitin system.