Tools and Techniques for Developing and Implementing Information Systems in Transportation Industry

Critically analyse a range of key tools and techniques used in the development, evaluation and implementation of information systems

• Critically analyse a range of key tools and techniques which are employed in the development, evaluation and implementation of information systems.

• Demonstrate the ability to evaluate the design, implementation and operation of different software packages to meet significant business needs for both domestic and international organisations.

Industry sectors are the context for your business. Choose one from the list below:

• Transportation

o Whether operating internationally or in the UK.

• Food service/Catering

o Indicative areas include restaurants, school and hospital cafeterias, catering operations on airlines, ships, weddings and mobile services for outdoor events or business districts.

• Healthcare

o Indicative areas include care homes, hospices, community healthcare, doctors' surgeries, dental surgeries, health clinics, hospitals, medical laboratories, people's homes, physiotherapy, radiography, occupational therapy, ambulance services, complementary therapies, dentistry, health informatics, health promotion, midwifery, nursing, nutrition and diet, optometry and opticians, pharmacy, psychological therapies.

TASK

Using the balanced scorecard model, you will describe and analyse your business information systems requirements and demonstrate your knowledge of how business value will be created and measured.

You will apply the balanced scorecard to achieve this.

Requirements

What business information solution(s) have you selected, and why?

Explain and justify the strategic, business and operational value created and delivered by the proposed solution(s).

Analyse and explain specifically how your business will measure and evaluate its performance against the value claimed above. To do this, you will apply the Balanced Scorecard measurement tool as specifically as possible. 800 words

Explain the theory used to justify the choices made for your proposed business information solution(s) and how this theory was applied.

These apply to all of the four tasks above:

• Evidence of knowledge, understanding and analysis of relevant tools and techniques appropriate for the successful evaluation and implementation of information systems that demonstrate the potential to create and deliver business value.

• Evidence of academic and intellectual skills that evaluate appropriate software packages, combined with relevant theory in application that meet business needs.

• Evidence of research

1. These are basic, initial questions to consider for the first task: What is your business? In which sector does it operate? What products and/or services does it provide? What processes support this? What does it  need to grow? This requirement is not merely an introduction. The proposed solutions need to be made clear throughout your submission.

2. Make sure your group understands the words used and what is asked for in tasks 2 -4 above. Value in a business context is particularly important.

3. To analyse is to disaggregate, or to break down into relevant parts, in order better to understand an issue and therefore explain it convincingly. You should be able to demonstrate this, especially with your application of the balanced scorecard approach.

4. Lectures, tutorials and the VLE materials curate and present a range of relevant theory to support your BIS development (e.g. value chain, virtual value chain, IPOS model, generic strategy, five forces analysis, system theory, three levels of strategy and data-information-knowledge model).Please select from the theory covered in class and make sure you both explain the theory and show how you applied it to your recommendations.