Organization Leadership & Decision-Making Research Project
Sparan
04OrganizationLeadershipDecision-MakingResearchProject.docxITS 630 – Organization Leadership & Decision-Making Research Project
You are team of IT professionals working at an IT Consulting firm. I am the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of an organization that has contracted you to consult with us on the identification of an area of Information Technology within our organization that needs improvement. Our organization has provided you with access to internal documentation, including all of our current IT policies and procedures (if any). Your task is to identify one key problem that your team has identified as one that needs improvement and make recommendations for the improvements that could lead to a resolution of the problem.
You can choose or make up any organization that you like as the organization at which I am the CIO and to which you will be presenting. You may also select the problem within the organization that you will be providing recommendations for how to resolve. If you like, you may select an actual problem at the organization where you work.
The broad solution to the problem must be covered in a chapter of our textbook. For example, chapter 7 is related to creating shared services; therefore, you could help the organization resolve a problem using shared services as the recommended solution.
You may choose more than one problem to resolve, but they must be related.
You MUST address every aspect of why you believe your solution will resolve the problem AND you must back it all up with scholarly sources.
Your paper/presentation should include the following components:
· A general explanation of the current state of IT within the organization (this may be fabricated but helps to identify the nature of the IT problem(s) experienced by the organization).
· Clear identification of the problem(s) (much of this may also be fabricated, but it must be feasible).
· Your research question which identifies the question that your research is trying to answer.
· A complete theoretical background on the IT problem and on the recommended solution.
· An explanation on how your research was conducted and how you achieved your results.
· The results of your research including what you learned from the sources you found and how it addresses the problem.
You will need to back up your claims with source material, at least half of which should be scholarly.
You should prepare both a paper (use Microsoft Word for the paper) and a presentation (you may use PowerPoint, Slides, Presi, Flash, etc. for the presentation).
Your paper should be formatted using APA guidelines and should contain the following sections:
· Title Page
· Abstract
· Table of Contents (Use the auto-generation features in Microsoft Word for the TOC)
· Main Body
· Introduction
· Problem Statement
· Research Question
· Literature Review
· Methodology
· Findings
· Conclusion
· References
Your presentation file can be organized any way you like; however, you are still required to use APA guidelines with regard to in-text citations and a references page.
Submission:
Only one person in each group may submit each portion of the research project on behalf of the group. The abstract, structure, paper, and presentation should all be submitted separately in their respective areas in Blackboard. You will have the option to submit your paper to Blackboard twice. The abstract, structure, and presentation only need to be submitted once.
Phase 1:
Two weeks prior to the residency, submit a title and abstract on your selected topic for the research project.
Phase 2:
One week prior to the residency, submit the structure for your research project. This should include the sections listed above as an outline of your planned paper.
The title page and abstract are the only pages at this point that should be in their final form (though you may change them as you are writing the paper during the residency).
Phase 3:
During the residency, you will submit your final paper and presentation. The first time you submit your paper, you will receive a SafeAssign score in the form of a percentage of the likelihood that your submission was plagiarized. If the SafeAssign score is under 20%, then I assume there is no plagiarism. If it is above 20%, then there may be some issues of plagiarism that will need to be addressed to prevent your group from receiving a failing grade for the course. If you do receive a SafeAssign score that is higher than 20%, please ask me for assistance and I will help you reduce it. The second submission of the paper is what will be graded.
