Team Research Project - Part 1 (Initial Report)

·         Weight 10% of the final grade

Submission Instructions

In this project, you will select an organization/enterprise from the list below: 

1.     Toronto Dominion Bank - TD Bank

2.     Brookfield Asset Management

3.     lululemon Athletica

4.     Canadian Pacific Railway

5.     Manulife Financial

6.     Bank of Montreal

Then you will identify and analyze the information technology being used in the above organization/enterprise. The project will be completed in two parts.  Each part should not be more than 1000 words.

Initial part of your report will have the following sections:

a) Introduction - Provide a brief introduction to your report and the overall IT topic that you will study. Briefly describe what the organization specializes in terms of providing services or producing goods.

b) Organizational Description - Provide a description of the organizational and governance structure including the leadership team, the locations, headquarters, number of employees, and its competitors.

c) Information Technology Systems – Describe the IT systems utilized by the company such as the software and hardware. Try to be as specific as possible.

d) Information Technology Challenges and Opportunities– Identify an IT challenge or a challenge that can be solved using IT. Briefly describe how the organization is solving this challenge. Be as specific as possible.

This part of the report should not be more than 1000 words.

Evaluation and Feedback

The Team report will be marked in its entirety out of 100. The following rubric indicates the criteria students are to adhere to, and their relative weights to the assignment overall.