This assignment asks you to apply ideas from enterprise systems to an example company.
The TheEdge.com Company, which is fictious, is an organization that creates IoT (Internet of Things) devices and manage them. The organization, allows consumers to purchase home assistant devices and connect them to their larger eco-systems (i.e. smart lamps, smart cars, etc, etc).
TheEdge.com has a direct order e-commerce and m-commerce presence and sells in many retail stores (i.e. Best Buy, Target, Walmart).
The TheEdge.comorganization…
- Within existing retail stores, focusing on stores that sell technology
- has headquarters in the US and also has a presence in India, China and Russia
- has strong relationships with other eco-system vendors such as Google, Amazon, Blink, Phillips
- has an e-commerce and m-commerce representation to their customers where they can buy direct from the organization
- has a mobile based application to manage their home assistant IoT devices
You are free to add assumptions and details concerning TheEdge.comprovided that they are consistent with the description above and provided that you specify them.
Deliverables (Please note there is a word and powerpoint)
- You are the Director for IT at com, and you are expected improve the operational and competitive aspects of the organization. You have been asked to do the following to address…
- The streamlining of operations of product delivery through the e-commerce process
- The streamlining of operations for delivery of the mobile application
- Improving decision making to compete more effectively
- Improve communication and collaboration with your customers. suppliers and alliance partners.
To meet the minimum of your assignment, focus your assignment on the above workflows but feel free to add/exand/adjust them.
Today, the organization has these workflow in-place, outline what that workflow looks like and how you would transform it.
In your own words, describe the application of four of the topics listed below (from the online notes this week) as they apply to TheEdge.com as specifically as possible to minimally improve the workflows above.
In your response, seek material additional to the online notesthrough research, that supports each topic and backs up your assertions.
- Microservices architecture
- WebServices/REST
- BigData
- DevOps
- SocialMedia
- Customer Relationship Management Systems
- Supply Chain Management Systems
- Business Intelligence
- Data Mining
Remember, that you want to start with a set of business strategies and approaches (from module 1 or based on research) you are driving towards!
Number the sections in your homework 1 through 7. After making an introduction as section 1, section 2 should outline how the topics you chose together, facilitate the workflows above and improve them. Provide a proposal as to how these technologies will work together!
Make sections 3 though 6 the same headings as in the list you select. Finally, make section 7 your conclusion.
Each section after should provide details around how the topic improves the workflow either competitively and/or operationally.
Use Module 0 as your guide in how to write an executive level paper. Each section should have a competitive and operational sub-section as to how you’d leverage the topics above relative to the sub-section.
There is a page limit maximum of 10 pages, single spaced or 1.5 spaced of 12-point type for part A.
The average size paper for this assignment is 8 pages of core content. However, we are far more concerned with the quality of your paper rather than the exact page length. A major part of this is cohesiveness, so please make sure that you have a cohesive story regarding these topics.
- Future assignments will require you to create slide presentations. As an introduction to this process, create roughly 6-8 slides that summarize your results in part A. This is principally a practice run for those not familiar with creating PowerPoint materials: we are not requiring sophisticated slides. Include a graphical element: figure or image. Leverage the notes section of powerpoint and describe the content as through you were giving a quick presentation.
This will be 10% of your overall assignment grade.
End with a list of references following the standard reference format, as described in References and Citations document.
Use the Ask Your Facilitator Discussion Board if you have any questions regarding the objectives of the assignment or how to approach the assignment.
Save your assignment as LastnameFirstname_assign3.doc and submit it in the Assignments section of the course.
