Information Needs and Information Systems in Organisations

Task

Task:

After completing the module you should be able to:

1. Demonstrate an understanding of information needs within different functional areas of organisations.
2. Compare and contrast information systems within different structural and functional areas of organisations.
3. Use information systems to produce management information at middle and senior management levels of organisations.
4. Communicate technical information in language appropriate for the target readership.
5. Demonstrate an awareness of legal and ethical issues in the context of information systems.
Your assignment should include: a title page containing your student number, the module name, the submission deadline and a word count; the appendices if relevant; and a reference list in Arden University (AU) Harvard format. You should address all the elements of the assignment task listed below. Please note that tutors will use the assessment criteria set out below in assessing your work.

You can do the same with a case study of your choice from a different source.

Question 1

List the information needs the corporation recognised to be most effectively addressed by the involvement of a start-up. What was/were the corporate’s functional area(s) where the partnership took place?

Question 2

What type of information system was the start-up addressing for the corporation? And how was it relevant to its structural and functional area? [LO2– 600 words]

Question 3

a) How the start-up was addressing middle and senior management information needs that could not be addressed by the internal IT department.
b) Also, state your justification of what type of information system would have to be developed by the internal IT department had the start-up not being involved.

Question 4

Describe the key technical details of the information system and the business partnership between the corporation and the start-up.

Question 5

Present the main legal and ethical issues that had to be addressed by the corporation to involve the start-up for the development of the information system.