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BIT203 Management Information Systems   Each student should follow and achieve the following tasks: Task 1 (10 marks): Choose any business firm / organization

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BIT203 Management Information Systems

 

Each student should follow and achieve the following tasks:

Task 1 (10 marks):

1. Choose any business firm / organization. Explain through a precise example the differences in terms of decision making performed in a TPS and ESS of this firm. (5 marks)

 

2. Select any business process within this firm, describe it as a set of steps then fill the following table (flow, information, sender and receiver) (5 marks):

 

Steps:

1.  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2.  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
3. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
4. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
5. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

Flows/Steps	Information	Sender	Receiver
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Task 2: (10 marks)

 

Prototyping and Outsourcing are common system-building approaches.

1. Distinguish between these two methodologies and explain the main characteristics of each building approach. (5 marks)

 

2. Provide five reasons explaining why firms adopt one of those two methodologies as a main system development methodology? (5 marks, 1 mark for each)

 

Task 3 (10 marks):

 

1. Select any real-life e-business firm in the public or private sector in UAE (1 mark)
2. Explain and discuss how telecommunications tools, Internet connection and wireless technology have contributed to support the distant working processes in this firm during the Covid-19 crisis.

1. Telecommunications tools. (3 marks)
2. Internet connection. (3 marks)
3. Wireless technology. (3 marks)