IT for Managers

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS 

The theme is Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Business. For this assignment, you must think about the future of business, considering current trends toward automation of business processes. You must research current trends and summarize your research as a report. The general structure of the report is as follows: 

1. An introductory section about current technological trends providing context for your report; 

2. A description of select applications of AI to business (minimum 1). Have particularly business areas (of your interest) in mind, e.g., HR, Marketing and Sales, Finance, Operations. You must also describe and analyze these technologies based on their potential to be game changers; 

3. The challenges for such applications to become widespread and beneficial to companies; 

4. A conclusion section. 

SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS 

To write the report you will need to cover at least the following: 

1. Your report must adhere to APA formatting; 

2. You must research at least 5 recent (i.e., less than 10 years) peer-reviewed articles. Exceptionally, highly regarded industry sources (e.g., IBM, Oracle, SAP, McKinsey, Accenture, Deloitte, Capgemini) will be accepted; 

3. Other than APA formatting, the structure for the paper is not fixed, if there is a logical flow of ideas. The length of the paper is not an issue, but it should not be longer than 10 page.

Other Important Notes:

1. You can use images, statistics and graphs.

2. 8-10 pages needed.

3. Need it by Friday evening (October 2, 2020) - Timezone: PDT (UTC -7)