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Assignment 1: IS Case Study Evaluation
Contents
Background ........................................................................................................................................ 2
Academic Honesty .............................................................................................................................. 2
Quick checklist .................................................................................................................................... 3
Use of AI............................................................................................................................................. 3
Objectives .......................................................................................................................................... 4
Requirements ..................................................................................................................................... 4
Questions ........................................................................................................................................... 4
Assessment Rules ............................................................................................................................... 4
Extensions ................................................................................................................................................... 4
Late Penalty ................................................................................................................................................. 4
Report medium ............................................................................................................................................ 4
Due date: ..................................................................................................................................................... 5
Expected time: ............................................................................................................................................. 5
References: .................................................................................................................................................. 5
Submission: ................................................................................................................................................. 5
Assessment Criteria ............................................................................................................................ 5
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Background
You are to analyse a case scenario and develop an IS strategic plan, drawing on the content of the lectures
(particularly weeks 1 to 4). A case study scenario will form the basis of your evaluation. The scenario is available
from the Assignments link on the LMS.
Academic Honesty
The university takes a dim view of students to are not able to correctly acknowledge the work of others, or who
try to pass this work off as their own. All students should be aware of the following website:
https://academicintegrity.unimelb.edu.au/home which provides practical advice to students about how not to be
involved in academic misconduct.
The following are some common forms of plagiarism where students have failed to acknowledge the source or
ownership of particular words, or ideas. Students who use such dishonest practices will be subject to the
academic misconduct provisions of the Academic Board Regulation (SEE
https://academicintegrity.unimelb.edu.au/forms-of-plagiarism)
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Copying
o Verbatim copying / Direct copying / Uncited quote: This is copying directly from paragraphs,
sentences, a single sentence or significant parts of a sentence without acknowledging the source.
o Mosaic copying / Scaffolding: Where the key points and structure of another person's work have
been used as a scaffold (framework) for your own work, without acknowledging the source..
o Recycling: This is sometimes called self-plagiarism or multiple submissions. You cannot re-use work
that you have submitted for assessment in any course at any university. Copying from your own work
is the same as copying from someone else's work.
Paraphrasing
o Inadequate paraphrasing: This happens when you try to explain another author's ideas in your own
words, but your wording remains too close to the original text.
o Uncited paraphrase: This is when you paraphrase another person's work but do not acknowledge the
source.
Misrepresenting and misquoting: When you cite a source correctly but misrepresent what that source
claimed. You may have not understood the original source and have inadvertently misrepresented the
author's ideas. This is poor scholarship. Alternatively, you may have deliberately taken the words or ideas of
an author out of context to support your argument. This is extremely poor scholarship and could constitute
academic misconduct.
Over-reliance on a source: When a large proportion of your work is based on a single source, it may be that
you have not read widely enough or considered other viewpoints on the topic. This is poor scholarship.
Ghostwriting
o By another person: Having someone else knowingly write or produce any work (paid or unpaid) that
you submit for your assessment is deliberate cheating and is considered to be academic misconduct.
o For another person: Writing or producing any work for another student to submit as their original
work is deliberate academic misconduct.
Collusion: Collusion is when more than one student contributes to a piece of individual assessment that is
then submitted as the work of an individual or multiple individuals when this is not permitted for the
assessment task. Students are encouraged to engage in discussion and debate of subject content, but you
must not produce any work that is submitted by another student, or submit any work produced by another
student, or together with another student. Researching, discussing, and sharing ideas is fine, but do not write
your assessments with other students. This is different from group assessment work where students are
instructed to work together, and the work is assessed as a group effort. Collusion in producing individual work
for assessment is academic misconduct.
Social media: The sharing of information and resources online and via social media platforms is also subject
to regulations regarding plagiarism and collusion. The dissemination of information that is either intended for
or likely to have the effect of, facilitating an unfair advantage for another student is considered academic
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misconduct. This covers situations where the student hosting the site or providing the resource may not know
or even have any contact with the students who are using it. Those types of cases also infringe the rules, as
they too are considered academic misconduct. This includes any sharing of information via a website, app, or
other electronic platform that is owned, operated, administered, or hosted by the student, or otherwise
within the student's control.
Quick checklist
(Reproduced with permission of Dr Stephen Morgan, Faculty of Economics and Commerce)
To be certain to acknowledge sources fairly and avoid plagiarising, review this checklist before beginning to write
your essay and again after you have completed your first draft.
1. What type of source are you using: your own independent material, common knowledge, or someone else's
independent material?
2. If you are quoting someone else's material, is the quotation exact? Have you used quotation marks for
quotations run into the text? Have you set off block quotes with an extra space before and after the quote,
single spacing within the quote, and left indenting of all lines of the block quote? Are omissions shown with
ellipses and additions with square brackets?
3. If you are paraphrasing someone else's material, have you rewritten it in your own words and sentence
structures? Does your paraphrase employ quotation marks when you resort to the author's exact language?
Have you represented the author's meaning without distortion?
4. Have you acknowledged each use of someone else's material?
5. Do all references contain complete and accurate information on the sources you have cited?
Use of AI
Please note that as of the 5 April 2023, Turnitin launched an additional function for staff to aid in the detection of
Artificial Intelligence (AI) use in assessment tasks.
If you use AI-generated material in the preparation of this assignment, this must be appropriately
acknowledged and cited per the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). The Template for this assignment
has space for this acknowledgement on the 2nd page. You should be reporting the use of AI software (like
ChatGPT etc.) and grammar helpers or translation software (e.g., Grammarly, Google Translate etc.).
If you use AI software (such as ChatGPT, QuillBot, etc.) to generate material for assessment that you represent as
your own ideas, research and/or analysis, you are NOT submitting your own work. Knowingly having a third party,
including artificial intelligence technologies, write or produce any work (paid or unpaid) that you submit as your
own work for assessment is deliberate cheating and is academic misconduct.
Any student who commits academic misconduct is subject to the penalties outlined in the Schedule of Student
Academic Misconduct Penalties in line with the statement on the use of artificial intelligence software in the
preparation of materials for assessment.
To summarise:
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AI tools are not banned across the University,
a. But you cannot use them to create work that is then submitted as your own,
b. And you must cite/declare them if you use them.
Please refer to https://academicintegrity.unimelb.edu.au/plagiarism-and-collusion/artificial-intelligence-toolsand-technologies for the university’s stance on these tools.
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Objectives
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Case Study Analysis: Provide a critical assessment of the current IS environment within the case organisation
drawing on the issues and criteria in the lectures. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the current IS
environment? Be sure to address the following points:
• How effective is the partnership between the IS and Business functions of the case organisation?
• How effective is the CIO in their role?
• What are the primary IS issues that need to be considered and addressed?
Case Study Strategy: Provide high-level advice to the case organisation IS. This must clearly communicate:
• The nature of the digital transformation
• What opportunities does IS provide?
• How will you address the issues raised in the case study analysis?
• How can there be a value-add, without causing a budget blow-out within the organisation?
Reflect on your experience.
• Reflect on your experience doing this task. What were the key challenges you faced? How did you
overcome them? How did your personal perceptions and management strategies impact your analysis of
the case scenario and the development of the IT strategy?
Requirements
You are required to produce a report that addresses each of the points in the Objectives above regarding the case
study scenario. You should keep the report to the scope of the case study scenario. If you wish to raise additional
issues and criteria to those referenced in the lectures from weeks 1 to 4, please ensure that you correctly cite all
sources of information used. You may include any relevant assumptions about the case organisation but must
include those assumptions as explicit statements in your report. Please ensure that you give good explanations
around why you choose particular models / tools / frameworks etc in your assignment. Also don’t forget to
include evidence from the case to back up your points.
Questions
All questions about the case and the assignment should be directed to Atif Ahmad (atif@unimelb.edu.au). Tutors
have been instructed not to answer questions and have been told not to read the case scenario. This is to ensure
that correct, consistent information is given to students about the assignment.
Assessment Rules
The assessment of Assignment A01 counts 40% towards the total mark for the subject (Expected average mark:
70%). On the release of the marks for this assignment, students will only see a raw score which may change when
the calculations of your overall mark for the subject are completed.
You will write 2000 words for this assignment (this includes all words in the document, including those in tables
– tables should not be images, but excludes references).
Extensions
Extensions will not be granted to students who request them after the period 24 hours before the due date. If the
assignment is due on the 5th January at 1 pm then you can only request an extension until 1 pm on the 4th of
January.
Late Penalty
10% of maximum marks per working day by which the submission of the assignment exceeds the due submission
date.
Report medium
Your report should be prepared as a document in PDF format. In your report, please include hyperlinks to any
web pages referenced in your report.
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Due date:
Please refer to the assignment submission pages for the due dates for each assignment component.
Expected time:
Approximately 40 hours of work.
References:
You must include a Reference list at the end of your report. Entries in the Reference list should be sorted
alphabetically by author, then by year of publication for works by the same author(s). Every single idea you
borrow from someone else should be cited in your Reference list, and where possibleshould include the page
number from the source (especially when you quote someone). Quotations, if used, should be in quotation marks
(“…”) and should be EXACT.
You must use Harvard or APA style referencing. Essentially, we are happy if you use an Author (Date) format for
citing and give enough details of the reference in the References so we can find thereference. Students are
STRONGLY encouraged to use a citation manager like EndNote (but you don’t have to).
Submission:
Your report should be submitted as a document in PDF format and submitted electronically via the Learning
Management System/Turnitin.
Please use your student ID as the name of the file you submit (eg 2232322223.pdf) and include your student
ID on the front page of the assignment only (do not set it as a header or footer on the assignment). Also, do
not put your name in the assignment file. Failure to do these things will result in a mark penalty under
“presentation”.
Assessment Criteria
Evaluation Criteria
Exceeds
requirements
More than meets
requirements
Meets
Less than meets
requirements requirements
Does not meet
requirements
Analysis of the
Case Study
13%
The analysis should be clear and present a structure that can be understood. The student should
demonstrate an understanding of the case and write about the key issues/problems in the case clearly.
There should be a comprehensive evaluation criterion applied and clearly explained/justified. The
student should address the key problems in the organisation with some insight.
Application of
The case response should use the theories and models discussed in the lectures and tutorials. There
Theory
should be an application of the theories discussed in lectures and tutorials applied to the case
situation. The student should show insight into the case situation, and apply the concepts learned
18%
throughout the paper.
Identification of
Having applied the theories discussed in class, the student should show well-articulated insight into the
opportunities/issues issues presented and opportunities for improvement offered by the theories and models. With key
issues identified, this is where the student will show insight into their observations and the
in a practical
recommendations presented. The well-organised layout of the organisation’s way forward should be
context
30%
included.
Personal Reflection Do they provide key challenges (comprehensive set = high, vague challenge = low), what is the quality
of the explanation about how these were overcome, do they explain how their personal perceptions
Reflect on your
and management strategies impact their analysis of the case scenario and the development of the IT
experience doing
strategy, is there a clear sense of voice and audience awareness?
this task.
20%
The overall
quality of
writing and
presentation.
(inc. word limit)
10%
How is the writing? Are there grammatical errors or sentence structure issues? The word limits are
important as well. Anything 10% higher or lower than the stated word limit should lose marks. Is the
structure of the paper appropriate? Can the paper be followed, and does it flow? Are subheadings
used for clarity?
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Academic structure
i.e., bibliography
and referencing.
10%
This section of the rubric is looking at the mechanics of the writing. Citations and references are the
key areas. They must be mechanically correct, and appropriate. Does the writer cite the class
readings? Are the citations and references in the correct structure? Are there a reasonable number of
references for the length of the paper? Is the writing quality aligned with the type of academic paper
required?
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