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Scenario
Information is the most valuable resource to a modern organization. Gathering, analyzing, processing
and sharing this information can be the difference between success and failure for many businesses.
Assume that you have been recruited for an organization to work as a business analyst. The higher
management wishes to expand the company with more functional areas and deploy information
systems. In this case, you have been asked to write a management report on the current situation of
the organization. (You can select any organization as your preference for the task)
Task 1: Understand information needs within different functional areas of organizations (LO1, M1)
Select an organization of your preference and create a profile for the organization pointing out the
vision, mission, employee base, objectives and goals. (M3)
Businesses are broken into a number of functional areas. Create a definition for each of the areas
below to explain what they do and the role they play in an organization.
1.1 Identify the main functional areas of the selected organization and evaluate the information
needs of each and every functional area with proper evidences. Ensure that you identify the types of
information they may collect and store, the types of tasks they may perform with it (LO 1.1)
1.2 Assume that the organization wishes to use information systems in their functional areas.
Evaluate the suitability of the information systems within the identified functional areas. (LO 2.3)
2.1 Businesses employ a range of information systems to ensure that they can manage and produce
the required details to support their operations.
2.2 Investigate the current trends of the selected information systems (in task 2.1) with examples (LO
2.2)
Task 3: Be able to use information systems to produce management information (LO3, M1, M2, D1,
D3)
3.1 Identify three major issues that reside in the organization, give proper solution for one issue with
the aid of an information system. Describe how the information system can use to generate valid
accurate and useful information for the selected problem (LO 3.1)
3.2 Evaluate alternative methods of solving the problem selected in the task 3.1 (LO 3.2)
To achieve M2,
2.1 A range of methods
and techniques have you have to use
been applied appropriate
methods and
2.2 A range of sources of
techniques in
information has been used
gathering
information and
presenting
them. Proper
reference on
different sources
of information
from internal
and external
sources.
M3 Present and communicate appropriate findings
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