Management Information System Practice Orientations about the Final Project Introduction The present project is a practice exercise where students will apply the concepts studied in class analyzing an organization or firm, in this case the organization will be the firm where each student works or Polytechnic University (Orlando-Miami Campuses) if the student does not work. Objective Propose a new system or improve and existent system of an organization applying the knowledge learned in the different courses of Business Administration Program. Reference C. V. Brown, D. W. DeHayes et al. Managing Information Technology, Seventh Edition, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2012. Students are encouraged to add their own reading list as appropriate. Development The development of the project requires the following analysis: 1. Current structure and behavioral view of the organization. 2. The structural characteristics cover a clear dividing of labor (managers and staff), hierarchy, explicit rules and procedures, impartial judgments, technical qualifications for positions, and maximum organizational efficiency. 3. Classify what type of organizational structure is It, and it differences respect other types of organizations similar to. Unique characteristics of this organization respect to other high educational center such as organizational type, environments, goals, power, constituencies, function, leadership, tasks, technology, and business process. It principal strengths and weakness. 4. Current information technology and current information systems. How these resources are used (or not). 5. Experiences of other competitors which use information systems. How these ISs could affect the organization. 6. Analysis of Information systems more implemented in this type of organizations and which the team will recommend and why? 7. Develop a proposal redesigned the organization with information systems. The role of a network and Internet in this proposal. 8. Information systems security and control. 9. Assessing the cost of the proposal. 10. Writing of the final project in MS Word. Parts of report: (Title, author and professor, Index, Introduction, Goals, Development, Conclusion and Recommendations, and References, Some diagrams and pictures could be included. These must have numbers and titles. 11. PowerPoint presentation. Deadline The project will have six phases or cuts, which end with a report. First phase (09/23/2013 - 09/29/2013): In this phase, the student must specify what will be the organization or firm selected. It could be the organization where each student works or any other selected by him. You can select a division, a department, a section of a production process, etc. Note: It is a six-week course, so you should analyze, design, complete, and write the final report and PowerPoint presentation in six weeks in order to obtain the c ...

1. Management Information System Practice
Orientations about the Final Project
Introduction
The present project is a practice exercise where students will
apply the concepts studied
in class analyzing an organization or firm, in this case the
organization will be the firm
where each student works or Polytechnic University (Orlando-
Miami Campuses) if the
student does not work.
Objective
Propose a new system or improve and existent system of an
organization applying the
knowledge learned in the different courses of Business
Administration Program.
Reference

2. C. V. Brown, D. W. DeHayes et al. Managing Information
Technology, Seventh Edition,
Pearson Prentice Hall, 2012.
Students are encouraged to add their own reading list as
appropriate.
Development
The development of the project requires the following analysis:
1. Current structure and behavioral view of the organization.
2. The structural characteristics cover a clear dividing of labor
(managers and staff),
hierarchy, explicit rules and procedures, impartial judgments,
technical
qualifications for positions, and maximum organizational
efficiency.
3. Classify what type of organizational structure is It, and it
differences respect other
types of organizations similar to. Unique characteristics of this
organization
respect to other high educational center such as organizational
type,

3. environments, goals, power, constituencies, function,
leadership, tasks,
technology, and business process. It principal strengths and
weakness.
4. Current information technology and current information
systems. How these
resources are used (or not).
5. Experiences of other competitors which use information
systems. How these ISs
could affect the organization.
6. Analysis of Information systems more implemented in this
type of organizations
and which the team will recommend and why?
7. Develop a proposal redesigned the organization with
information systems. The
role of a network and Internet in this proposal.
8. Information systems security and control.
9. Assessing the cost of the proposal.
10. Writing of the final project in MS Word. Parts of report:
(Title, author and
professor, Index, Introduction, Goals, Development, Conclusion
and
Recommendations, and References, Some diagrams and pictures
could be
included. These must have numbers and titles.

4. 11. PowerPoint presentation.
Deadline
The project will have six phases or cuts, which end with a
report.
First phase (09/23/2013 - 09/29/2013): In this phase, the student
must specify what will
be the organization or firm selected. It could be the organization
where each student
works or any other selected by him. You can select a division, a
department, a section of
a production process, etc.
Note: It is a six-week course, so you should analyze, design,
complete, and write the final
report and PowerPoint presentation in six weeks in order to
obtain the credits for this
course, so be pragmatic.
1. Describe the structure and behavioral of the selected
organization.
2. The structural characteristics cover a clear dividing of labor
(managers and staff),
hierarchy, explicit rules and procedures, impartial judgments,

5. technical
qualifications for positions, and maximum organizational
efficiency.
3. Classify what type of organizational structure it is,
similarities and differences
with respect other organizations.
4. Identify and describe what the issue that you will solve is.
The student should write a word document with the result of his
or her initial idea about
the project and submit it via Blackboard.
Deadline: Before or by 9/29/2013 at midnight.
Second phase (09/30/2013 - 10/06/2013): In this phase, each
student should complete the
information related to points
1. Strengthens and weakness of the structure or organization
analyzed.
2. What is the project about?
3. What is the state of art?
4. Describe in detail customer requirements, preliminary
specifications, and related
technology areas competitive benchmarks.
5. Comment on the scope of effort involved in general terms.
Note: You have a great idea and you need to convince others
about that.

6. The student will write a word document with the results of his
analysis and then submit it
via BB.
Deadline: Before or by 10/06/2013 at midnight.
Third phase (10/07/2013 - 10/13/2013): In this phase, each
student should complete the
information related to
1. Carefully state how you have narrowed or broadened the
scope of the project
based on available time and labor resource.
2. Describe in details each module and/or stage of your
proposal. You should use
diagrams or pictures to support your descriptions.
3. Be alert that your proposal should relate to actual standards
and realistic
constraints.
Note: You should implement and integrate techniques,
knowledge, and skills obtained in
business administration areas developing your project proposal.
The student will write a word document with the results of his
analysis and then submit it
via BB.

7. Deadline: Before or by 10/13/2013 at midnight.
Fourth phase (10/14/2013 - 10/20/2013): In this phase, each
student should complete the
information related to
1. State the plan of action. What tasks you need to implement
the design strategy.
2. State the schedule for each task that could be design,
analysis, simulation,
implementation, and testing.
3. Define if security and control measures should be
implemented.
Note: If Microsoft project is available for you, it should be
used. Include a timetable
showing when each step in the expected sequence will be
completed (generally, by week)
and how the tasks will be shared among the team members.
The student will write a word document with the results of his
analysis and then submit it
via BB.
Deadline: Before or by 10/20/2013 at midnight.

8. Fifth phase (10/21/2013 - 10/27/2013): In this phase, each
student should complete the
information related to
1. What benefits will provide the proposal to the organization.
2. Assessing the cost of the proposal. Itemize total labor cost
for all partners, all
materials cost and cost of any item, equipment, software, and
determine the grand
total for the project.
Note: Compute labor cost for each team member on the project
as follows:
Assumed dream salary ($/hour) * hours = $Total
The student will write a word document with the results of his
analysis and then submit it
via BB.
Deadline: Before or by 10/27/2013 at midnight.
Sixth phase (10/28/2013 - 11/03/2013): In this phase, each
student should review the
orientations about the written report and the PowerPoint
presentation (see the project
guidelines).

9. 1. Writing of the final project in MS Word. Parts of report:
(Title, author and
professor, Index, Introduction, Objectives, Development
(Design Strategy, Plan of
Action, Cost Analysis, and Schedule), Conclusion and
Recommendations, and
References, Some diagrams and pictures could be included.
These must have
numbers and titles.
2. PowerPoint presentation.
Note: The final report will be completed combining the reports
of phase 1 – 5. This
blending of must be developed with systemic approach.
The power point presentation will be a summary of the final
report.
Deadline: Before or by 11/03/2013 at midnight.
Partial reports and the final report and with a PowerPoint
presentation will be posted the
corresponding week.
Note: The final grade will also include the evaluation of each

10. cut.
Report and PowerPoint presentation must be in English.
The references used should appear at the end of each partial
report and the final report.
Orientations about the Final Project Report
The final project report has two parts:
I- Written Report
II- Presentation
I- Written Report is a document with a student’s proposal (in
MS word). The
deadline will be on week 6 (10/03/2013) at midnight (12:00
A.M.) The
following topics should be in this report:
1) First page will contain Title Page (center justified, right-left,
top-bottom)
Title: All capital letters, font size 16-20
Proposal for MGT4570 Management Information Systems

11. Practice
Polytechnic University
Names of the student (font size 16)
Names of advisor/sponsor
Date
You may choose to add a logo on top of the title. Use multiple
spacing between various
items for a good visual effect.
1) Introduction will contain a description of the firm and its
business environment
(characteristics). Why is necessary to develop the proposal?
(explanation) Goal of
the proposal and a brief summary of the analysis developed.
2) Develop of the proposal will contain the following:
ructural characteristics cover a clear dividing of labor
(managers and
staff), hierarchy, explicit rules and procedures, impartial
judgments,

12. technical qualifications for positions, and maximum
organizational
efficiency.
anizational structure is It, and it
differences
respect other types of organizations similar to. Unique
characteristics of
this organization respect to other high educational center such
as
organizational type, environments, goals, power, constituencies,
function,
leadership, tasks, technology, and business process. It principal
strengths
and weakness.
systems. How
these resources are used (or not).
hich use information
systems. How
these ISs could affect the organization.
type of
organizations and which the team will recommend and why?
with
information systems.

13. The role of a network and Internet in this proposal.
implementation.
3) The final report will have diagrams and tables that can help
to justify the
proposal. MS Excel could be used.
4) Conclusions will contain an evaluation of accomplishment of
the goals and the
author’s criteria about how successful the proposal is.
5) Recommendations will contain suggestions about interesting
ideas which were
mentioned in the report, but will not be developed in it, but they
could be part of
future projects or improvement of the current proposal.
6) References will include bibliographic sources consulted by
the team.
II- Power point Presentation deadline will be on week 6
(10/03/2013) at the
midnight (12:00 A.M.)
The PowerPoint presentation could have the following
information:

14. 1) First slide: Title of the project, author, number and name of
class, professor name
and term.
2) Introduction (1-2 slides) with a brief description of the
project scenario and goals.
3) Principal criteria used during the analysis.
4) Develop of proposal
5) General diagrams
6) Current system vs. proposed system
7) Tables.
8) Costs
9) Conclusions.
10) Recommendations.
11) References.
Evaluation criteria
Students will demonstrate an understanding about Information
Technology and
Information Systems as future managers who will effectively
invest in and utilize new
and already in-place information technologies. Students will
also demonstrate that they
are able to communicate their ideas with adequate writing and
presentation skills.

15. Rubrics:
MIS Skills 4 3 2 1 Score
Description of the
current structure of
the organization
Description of the
current behavioral
view of the
organization
Classification of the
organization
Current IT and IS
Justification of the
proposal
Comparison with

16. other competitors
Design of a new
structure
Quality of tables
Quality of Diagrams
Describe in general
terms the proposal
Assessing Hardware
Assessing Software
Role of a network
and Internet
Assessing the costs
Implementation
schedule
Systemic approach
Individual

17. contributions
Writing Skills 4 3 2 1 Score
Present objectives
and introduce the
problem
Correct and clear
description of each
topic.
Organization and
structure of the
paper
Spelling
Use of diagram and
graph to support

18. explanation
Use of references
Conclusions
Recommendations
References
Presentation Skills 4 3 2 1 Score
Adequate use of
media
Explain in simple
terms
Use technical
terminology
Justify the proposal
Note: The results obtained in this table will be transformed
using the adequate scale (see
evaluation criteria).