AMBA/640 AMBA640 AMBA 640 WEEK 8 Individual Assignment #3
- university-of-maryland / AMBA 640
- 23 Aug 2017
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AMBA 640 WEEK 8 Individual Assignment #3
Individual Assignment #3 (W8IA) Instructions
Basic Instructions:
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Additional Instructions:
it will be important to:
- Extract the lessons of your Apple research for enterprise information systems managers.
- Present evidence whether Apple uses any of the topics named in the second "bullet" above
- Be succinct, as your readership will likely be busy with other things and can devote only a limited time to reading your ideas, no matter how good they are.
- Use good English, so as not to denigrate your worthy thoughts by making spelling or grammatical errors. See http://owl.english.purdue.edu for one source of excellent language usage help, to include help for speakers of English as a second language, source long recommended by the UMUC Effective Writing Center
Required Format:
Use A Format for Your Text Assignments found in Content/General Information.
Required Readings:
- Benson, R.J., Ribbers, P.M., and Blitstein, R.B. (2014) Trust and Partnership: Strategic IT: Management for Turbulent Times. Preface and Chapter 1. Reread as necessary
- High, P.A. (2014) Implementing World Class IT Strategy: How IT Can Drive Organizational Innovation. Foreword and Chapter 1. Reread as necessary
Multimedia:
- McFarlan, F. W. (n.d.) The new strategic weapon: Information technology. Cambridge: Harvard Business School Publishing. To be found in Content/Week 7. Review as necessary
Additional Readings:
Find them in Content/Week 8 above (before) the Assignment Instructions that you are now reading.
They include starter information on Apple and Apple's supply chain explained.
Further:
- Apple, Inc. publishes "hot news" on its products at http://www.apple.com/hotnews/.
- A source of news on Samsung's and competing smartphones is at http://ibnlive.in.com/newstopics/samsung.html.
- Lenovo announces its products at http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/portals/communications/
Grading Rubric:
Posted below
Assignment Weighting:
12.5% of the course grade
Let your faculty have any questions.
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