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FIT3174 IT STRATEGY AND GOVERNANCE
Assignment 1: IT Strategy Evaluation and Application
Value: This assignment is worth 20% of your final assessment in the unit.
Type of Assignment: Group (group of three from the same Applied)
Due Date: Friday, 12 April 2024, 11:55 PM
Submission of the Assignments: Your assignment should be submitted to Moodle/Turnitin. The file names
should contain Unit Code, assignment number and your group ID, similar to the following example:
FIT3174A1_GroupID.docx OR FIT3174A1_GroupID.pdf
Only one of the group members will need to upload the assignment file on Moodle for the group, but all
members must click the 'submit' button to accept the student submission statement.
Learning outcomes:
Demonstrate the capability to develop IT strategies which are consistent with the corporate strategy of business
organisations, and to describe how IT strategies can be applied to improve IT function and organisational
performance.
Broad Assignment Aims:
This assignment is designed to assess your understanding of IT capabilities and how organisations can employ
the IT portfolio for executing strategies. Students are required to demonstrate their understanding of how
various technologies can support organisational value-chains.
This assignment is a case study approach to general problem solving (which involves problem analysis and
solution planning), also applicable in IT strategy uses. The knowledge you need to apply is all linked to
planning an IT strategy (lesson 1 - 5).
You are required to seek additional material from a variety of sources. You must specify any sources used in
the submission using appropriate referencing styles.
Using Generative AI (GAI) for the assignment:
Students are allowed to use GAI, such as ChatGPT, to assist them with this assignment. However, the main
use of the tool should be to generate initial ideas and improve the quality of the report (e.g., grammar checks).
Please note that if GAI is used, the following information needs to be included in the appendix:
● Declare the adopted GAI technology and the ways it was used to assist with this assignment. For
example, did you use it to generate ideas for any parts of the assignment or to improve writing in any
ways?
● Declare the prompts used and how you have utilised the results critically. Please take a critical
approach to the results that GAI generates.
○ Validate the correctness of the responses by conducting further research.
○ Make sure that any argument made in your report needs to be supported by appropriate
literature (remember that GAI is limited to its training data and is thus biased by nature).
○ Clearly indicate how you adopted the responses from GAI selectively and critically to inform
your report.
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Report Outline:
A recommended report outline is as follows:
● Title page (with assignment title, student names, Group ID, unit code, tutor names)
● Table of contents
● Introduction section, e.g., purpose, scope
● Body (responses to the assignment tasks)
o Introduction to the business/organisation
o Analysis of cases’ current and/or future technologies capabilities
o Evaluation of the IT and/or business strategy
o Implementation of risk management
● Conclusion e.g. summarise strategies highlights, how proposed strategies fulfil the purpose you mentioned
in the Introduction; the implications of not having this integrated business and IT plan put in place, future
directions.
● One single aggregated reference list at the end of the document.
● Appendix
o Indicating each person’s contributions in any of the following areas, in a reasonable style:
conceptualisation, desk research, analysis, writing-up, and editing.
o Declaring if GAI is used to assist with this assignment. If yes, please see the previous section
for information to include in terms of your critical use of GAI.