MBA CIS—Enterprise Systems Analysis and Design
As you now know, systems analysis and design is a challenging task in today’s global business
environment. Thorough planning, in-depth analysis, and effective design as reflected in successful
implementation all present complex problems for systems analysts and project teams to solve during a
systems analysis and design project. Recall that it is an absolute requirement to meet the constraints of
scope, time, budget, and quality in the finished project in order for an information systems project to be
deemed as a success.
Scenario:
You have been asked by the management of your consulting company to prepare and write a
Management Advisory Report that will effectively guide organizational decision makers in
understanding both the requirements of a successful systems analysis and design project and key
strategies and recommendations that can be followed in order to deliver a successful information
systems project.
Organize your report in the following order with the indicated content:
Introduction – a clear/concise description of the report’s purpose (this is an opportunity to
convince the reader that his or her time will be well spent in reading the report)
Background – a thorough discussion of why it is so difficult to achieve overall success in an
information system project (you recall that research has indicated that the majority of
information systems projects are deemed to be unsuccessful in one or more respects)
Recommendations – a minimum of ten clearly stated and well supported recommendations
(“best practices”) for systems analysis and design strategies and project team activities that
should contribute to the achievement of a successful information systems project effort (this will
involve a concise explanation of the recommended strategy and a clear justification of its
inclusion by discussing why it should contribute to success).
o You are to form these recommendations based on your experiences in this course: in
other words, what did you learn from working with the course content and with the
individual and team project assignments in this course?
o You are also welcome to form your own ideas on topics that were not specifically
addressed through these means but that you believe would be important considerations.
Conclusion – a restatement of the purpose of the report and a high-level summary of the major
recommendations identified in the report
Format Requirements: your Management Advisory Report must
1. be composed in a Microsoft Word document in 12-point Arial font and with one-inch top, bottom,
left, and right margins,
2. contain a descriptive title and date completed at the top of the first page in bold text,
3. contain a left-justified section heading in bolded text for each of the four sections as detailed
above,
4. have a centered page number at the bottom of each page, and
5. be written in complete sentences.
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