What is Information and communication technology (ICT): Overview

Academic Projects

Assessment Overview

Investigate the need for ICT technologies and skills required to transform an organisation from its current capabilities and resources to a goal state.

Critically analyse policies and procedures for managing the information systems in a specific organisation. Critically evaluate trends and developments in computer hardware and software in terms of their potential for improving the use of information systems in a specific organisation.

All work must be completely your own and all literature used must be referenced appropriately using APA 6th edition.

To prepare for this assessment you will need to select, and have approved by your professor, a real-world case study of an organisation that needs to transform to deal with the growing needs for a contemporary information system. You will investigate the impact of emerging technologies on the information systems function in a specific organisation, and seek recommendations that could lead the organisation to match the requirement of emerging technologies for the management of information systems in a contemporary organisation.

Critical analysis of past information systems
The report critically analyses perceptively with thorough detail: past roles of information systems, past policies for managing information systems, past procedures for managing information systems in a specified organisation.

Critical analysis of present information systems
The report perceptively, with thorough detail, critically analyses: present roles of information systems, present policies for managing information systems, present procedures for managing information systems in a specified organisation.

Critical evaluation of future information systems
The report perceptively, and with thorough detail, critically evaluates: trends in computer hardware and software, developments in computer hardware and software, the transition of org. from current to goal state for potential use to insightfully improve the use of information systems in a specified organisation judiciously supported by relevant literature.

Justification of recommendations of future information systems.
The report makes perceptive and thoroughly justified recommendations for future roles of information systems, future policies for managing information systems in order to insightfully improve the use of information systems in a specified organisation judiciously supported by relevant literature.