ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
Assessment Briefing document
Assessment
code:
010
Academic
Year:
2022/2023
Trimester: 2
Module Title: Business Information Systems
Module
Code:
MOD003328
Level: 5
Module
Leader:
Weighting: 60%
Word Limit: 3000 words
This excludes bibliography and other items listed in rule 6.75 of
the Academic Regulations:
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gs.pdf
Assessed
Learning
Outcomes
• Analyse the role of the information systems strategy in an
organisation, and its integration with overall corporate
strategy.
• Evaluate appropriate hard and soft factors that impact upon
success and failure in the development, roll out and operation
of various types of business information systems.
Submission
Deadline:
Please refer to the deadline on the VLE
WRITING YOUR ASSIGNMENT:
• This assignment must be completed individually.
• You must use the Harvard referencing system.
• Your work must indicate the number of words you have used. Written
assignments must not exceed the specified maximum number of words.
When a written assignment is marked, the excessive use of words beyond the
word limit is reflected in the academic judgement of the piece of work which
esults in a lower mark being awarded for the piece of work (regulation 6.74).
• Assignment submissions are to be made anonymously. Do not write your
name anywhere on your work.
• Write your student ID number at the top of every page.
• Where the assignment comprises more than one task, all tasks must be
submitted in a single document.
• You must number all pages.
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SUBMITTING YOUR ASSIGNMENT:
In order to achieve full marks, you must submit your work before the deadline.
Work that is submitted late – if your work is submitted on the same day as the
deadline by midnight, your mark will receive a 10% penalty. If you submit your
work up to two working days after the published submission deadline – it will be
accepted and marked. However, the element of the module’s assessment to
which the work contributes will be capped with a maximum mark of 40%.
Work cannot be submitted if the period of 2 working days after the deadline has
passed (unless there is an approved extension). Failure to submit within the
elevant period will mean that you have failed the assessment.
Requests for short-term extensions will only be considered in the case of illness
or other cause considered valid by the iCentre Adviser. Please contact
XXXXXXXXXX. A request must normally be received and agreed by
the iCentre Adviser in writing at least 24 hours prior to the deadline. See rules
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Mitigation: The deadline for submission of mitigation in relation to this assignment
is no later than five working days after the submission date of this work. Please
contact XXXXXXXXXX
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ASSIGNMENT BACKGROUND
You have already established a successful business using BIS well.
Your business is based in one of the transportation, food service/catering or
healthcare sectors.
In your group presentation, you have already discussed investment in and
development of cloud services for your products/services to continue the
usiness performance.
You now need to write a
iefing document to show the key issues regarding
lockchain.
ASSIGNMENT QUESTION
Task 1
Identify and evaluate the characteristics and significance globally of blockchain.
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marks)
Task 2
Analyse the organisational opportunities and challenges posed to your chosen
sector by blockchain XXXXXXXXXX
marks)
Task 3
Apply Porter’s value chain and/or Rayport & Sviolka’s virtual value chain to
analyse how value is created and delivered in your business by blockchain. (25
marks)
Task 4
Use co
ect academic writing style and structure. Use co
ect grammar, syntax,
punctuation and spelling. Use in-text citations and references according to the
Harvard Reference System XXXXXXXXXXmarks)
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ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
Evidence of knowledge, understanding and analysis of the role of blockchain in
an organisation and its relationship to corporate strategy.
Evidence of academic and intellectual skills that evaluate appropriate hard and
soft factors that impact upon success and failure in the development, roll out and
operation of business information systems.
Evidence of academic and intellectual skills that successfully apply principles of
lockchain to a specific organisational context.
POINTS TO CONSIDER
• Structure of the
iefing document:
1. Introduction - introduce the topic area and explain the scope of work to
e addressed in the
iefing document (150 words)
2. Task XXXXXXXXXXwords)
3. Task XXXXXXXXXXwords)
4. Task XXXXXXXXXXwords)
5. Conclusion to summarise what you have set out in your main section
(150 words)
6. Full list of references in Harvard format.
Your
iefing report does not need an executive summary, recommendations
or appendices. Use the sector and business/organisation chosen for the
interim assessment. If you do not, marks will be forfeited.
• Respond to each task by using relevant theories, frameworks and their
application to the BIS development with explanation and analysis. A
critical approach will earn merit.
• Explore relevant blockchain issues in your analysis and application of your
proposals. These may include security, immutability, transparency, IOT,
etc. Be aware of the distinction between blockchain and cryptocu
encies.
• Take a critical approach to your use of Porter’s value chain and/or Rayport
& Sviokla’s virtual value chain. Focus on the technology activity and
explore its relationships selectively with other value creation activities.
• Lectures, tutorials and the VLE materials curate and present a range of
elevant theory to support your BIS development (e.g. value chain, virtual
value chain, IPOS model, generic strategy, five forces analysis, system
theory, three levels of strategy and data-information-knowledge model).
ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY GENERIC ASSESSMENT CRITERIA AND MARKING
STANDARDS: LEVEL 5
Level 5 reflects continuing development from Level 4. At this level students are not fully autonomous but are able to take
esponsibility for their own learning with some direction. Students are expected to locate an increasingly detailed theoretical
knowledge of the discipline within a more general intellectual context, and to demonstrate this through forms of expression
which go beyond the merely descriptive or imitative. Students are expected to demonstrate analytical competence in terms both
of problem identification and resolution, and to develop their skill sets as required.
Mark
Bands
Outcome
Characteristics of Student Achievement by Marking Band for ARU’s Generic
Learning Outcomes (Academic Regulations, Section 2)
Knowledge & Understanding
Intellectual (thinking), Practical, Affective and
Transferable Skills
90-
100%
Achieves
module
outcome(s)
Exceptional information base
exploring and analysing the
discipline, its theory and ethical
issues with extraordinary originality
and autonomy. With some
additional effort, work may be
considered for internal publication
Exceptional management of learning resources, with a
higher degree of autonomy/ exploration that clearly exceeds
the
ief. Exceptional structure/accurate expression.
Demonstrates intellectual originality and imagination.
Exceptional team/practical/professional skills. With some
additional effort, work may be considered for internal
publication
80-
89%
Outstanding information base
exploring and analysing the
discipline, its theory and ethical
issues with clear originality and
autonomy
Outstanding management of learning resources, with a
degree of autonomy/exploration that clearly exceeds the
ief. An exemplar of structured/accurate expression.
Demonstrates intellectual originality and imagination.
Outstanding team/practical/professional skills
70-
79%
Excellent knowledge base,
exploring and analysing the
discipline, its theory and ethical
issues with considerable originality
and autonomy
Excellent management of learning resources, with a degree
of autonomy/exploration that may exceed the
ief.
Structured/accurate expression. Excellent academic/
intellectual skills and team/practical/professional skills
60-
69%
Good knowledge base; explores
and analyses the discipline, its
theory and ethical issues with some
originality, detail and autonomy
Good management of learning with consistent self-direction.
Structured and mainly accurate expression. Good
academic/intellectual skills and team/practical/ professional
skills
50-
59%
Sound knowledge base that begins
to explore and analyse the theory
and ethical issues of the discipline
Sound use of learning resources. Acceptable
structure/accuracy in expression. Sound level of
academic/intellectual skills, going beyond description at
times. Sound team/practical/professional skills. Inconsistent
self-direction
40-
49%
A marginal
pass in
module
outcome(s)
Adequate knowledge base with
some omissions and/or lack of
theory of discipline and its ethical
dimension
Adequate use of learning resources with little self-direction.
Some input to teamwork. Some difficulties with
academic/intellectual skills. Largely imitative and descriptive.
Some difficulty with structure and accuracy in expression, but
developing practical/professional skills
30-
39%
A marginal
fail in module
outcome(s).
Satisfies
default
qualifying
mark
Limited knowledge base; limited
understanding of discipline and its
ethical dimension
Limited use of learning resources, working towards self-
direction. General difficulty with structure and accuracy in
expression. Limited academic/ intellectual skills. Still mainly
imitative and descriptive. Team/practical/ professional skills
that are not yet secure
20-
29%
Fails to
achieve
module
outcome(s)
Qualifying
mark not
satisfied.
Little evidence of an information
ase. Little evidence of
understanding of discipline and its
ethical dimension
Little evidence of use of learning resources. No self-
direction, with little evidence of contribution to teamwork.
Little evidence of academic/intellectual skills and significant
difficulties with structure/expression. Very imitative and
descriptive. Little evidence of practical/professional skills
10-
19%
Deficient information base.
Deficient understanding of
discipline and its ethical dimension
Deficient use of learning resources. No attempt at self-
direction with inadequate contribution to teamwork. Deficient
academic/intellectual skills and major difficulty with
structure/expression. Wholly imitative and descriptive.
Deficient practical/professional skills
1-
9%
No evidence of any information
ase. No understanding of
discipline and its ethical dimension
No evidence of use of learning resources of understanding
of self-direction with no evidence of contribution to teamwork.
No evidence academic/ intellectual skills and incoherent
structure/ expression. No evidence of practical/professional
skills
0%
Awarded for: (i) non-submission; (ii) dangerous practice and; (iii) in situations where the student
fails to address the assignment
ief (eg: answers the wrong question) and/or related learning
outcomes
BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS FINAL ASSESSMENT GUIDANCE
This is guidance for your final assessment.
This document sits alongside the final assessment
ief, the supporting VLE background blockchain research publications and can be used in combination with “BIS January 2023 Final Assessment” video in Videos: Lecture Recordings tile on the VLE.
Topic: blockchain
· Four tasks with marks allocated
· Three written tasks
· Fourth task is a mark out of ten for quality of references, citations and writing.
· Deadline: Wednesday 17th April 2023 at 14:00
· 3000 word (+/- 10%)
· Minimum: 2700 words
· Maximum: 3300 words
· Please do not go beyond the maximum or under the minimum. Exceeding the maximum word count will result in marks being deducted. No-one wants this.
Please be attentive to the health warning in the assignment
ief:
Your
iefing report does not need an executive summary, recommendations or appendices. Use the sector and business/organisation chosen for the interim assessment. If you do not, marks will be forfeited.
It is a report about blockchain, it is not an essay,report : blockchain in healthcare & it is not about cryptocu
encies, ( crypto it is about the financial services), the report it is about blockchain, is
oader and deeper that bitcoin, crypto, blockchain it is generic e technology anable applied to all industry, for my report in healthcare.
we choose Healthcare industry, please see the presentation attached, please look for Heathcare specilized reports for this industry, payment& service providers, h&r , payment system.
Find & use resources : ibisworld, financial times, o
is, googlescholar, look for Blockchain Heathcare reports from PWC, McKensey, Delloite, GENERAL ARTICLES: JOURNALS FROM ELSEVIER,
INTRODUCTION: 150 words, introduce the topic are the blockchain , importance and characteristics of blockchain ,
It is important to understand that the first three written tasks apply at different levels as follows:
· Task 1: refers to blockchain at the global level – that is, the world.- characteristics,