management information systems

BCO216 · Managing Information Systems (MIS) Task brief & rubrics assignment week 9 Fall 2021

Task

The student will have to answer all open questions by himself without employing copy and paste practices or working in teams. Cover sheet, table of content

and in-text References and Bibliography are expected and will be graded.

The work needs to be converted into a pdf file before uploading to the submission point in Moodle.

Questions:

a) What is the aim of a business (large or small) when implementing an Information System?

b) How has this rational evolved in the last 50 years? How are decision made by the CIO different from the ones made back then?

c) What are the functions of an information system?

d) List the components of an information system infrastructure.

e) Explain what the difference between a binary and a decimal system is, and why information system hardware only can process binary strings at their

core.

f) Explain in your own words the difference between human readable information and machine code. Is there any way to translate one into the other and

vice versa?

g) Define DATA, INFORMATION, KNOWLEDGE & WISDOM in your own words.

h) Provide 5 real life examples on how implementing automated data handling improves business performance and profits. Can you list some business

processes which were not possible to perform before the information age?

Marks: a & h: 20 each, 10 marks for the rest. Total marks: 100.

Formalities:

• Wordcount: 600

• Cover, Table of Contents, References and Appendix are excluded of the total wordcount.

• Font: Arial 12,5 pts.

• Text alignment: Justified.

• The in-text References and the Bibliography must be in Harvard’s citation style.

Submission: Week 9 · Sunday November 28th 23.59 CEST – PDF file Via Moodle (Turnitin).

Weight: This task is a 30% of your total grade for this subject.

It assesses the following learning outcomes:

• understand what an information system is, and its main components are

• distinguish between the main types of information systems and innovative methods of reducing costs and improving service through management

information systems

Rubrics

Exceptional 90-100 Good 80-89 Fair 70-79 Marginal fail 60-69

Knowledge & Understanding

(30%)

Student demonstrates excellent understanding of key concepts and uses vocabulary in an entirely appropriate manner.

Student demonstrates good understanding of the task and mentions some relevant concepts and demonstrates use of the relevant vocabulary.

Student understands the task and provides minimum theory and/or some use of vocabulary.

Student understands the task and attempts to answer the question but does not mention key concepts or uses minimum amount of relevant vocabulary.

Application (30%) Student applies fully relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class.

Student applies mostly relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class.

Student applies some relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. Misunderstanding may be evident.

Student applies little relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. Misunderstands are evident.

Critical Thinking (30%)

Student critically assesses in excellent ways, drawing outstanding conclusions from relevant authors.

Student critically assesses in good ways, drawing conclusions from relevant authors and references.

Student provides some insights but stays on the surface of the topic. References may not be relevant.

Student makes little or none critical thinking insights, does not quote appropriate authors, and does not provide valid sources.

Communication (10%)

Student communicates their ideas extremely clearly and concisely, respecting word count, grammar and spellcheck

Student communicates their ideas clearly and concisely, respecting word count, grammar and spellcheck

Student communicates their ideas with some clarity and concision. It may be slightly over or under the wordcount limit. Some misspelling errors may be evident.

Student communicates their ideas in a somewhat unclear and unconcise way. Does not reach or does exceed wordcount excessively and misspelling errors are evident.