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ITECH7407 – Real Time Analytics

Assessment Task – Team Assignment

Overview

For this assessment task, you will work in a team to write a research report to outline the rationales, challenges and benefits provided by real-time analytics applications.

Timelines and Expectations

Total Percentage Value of Task:

Group Presentation Percentage Value of Task 10%

Group Presentation Due (Week 8 –Allocated Laboratory)

Group Report Percentage Value of Task 10%

Group Report Due (Week 9 Sunday 5pm)

Minimum time expectation: 50 hrs

Learning Outcomes Assessed

The following course learning outcomes are assessed by completing this assessment task:

K1. Apply the principles, methodologies and applications of real time systems in diverse domains.

K2. Identify and explain the architecture components of real time systems.

K3. Communicate the key drivers for big data in terms of efficiency, productivity, revenue and profitability to global organisations.

K4. Identify and describe types of big data, and analyse its differences from other types of data.

S1. Integrate data warehouse and business intelligence techniques when using big data.

A1. Communicate security, compliance, auditing and protection of real time big data systems.

A2. Adopt problem solving and decision making strategies, to communicate solutions to organisational problems with key stakeholders, based on analysis of big data, in real time settings.

V1. Value the need to work collaboratively and autonomously on organisational real time big data problems.

V2. Appreciate the need for big data techniques given that conventional information technologies cannot effectively handle the size, the scale and growth of real time big data sets.

Assessment Details

For this assignment, you will need to a research report of about 3000 words focusing on one of the following topics

Big Data privacy

Big data governance

Strategic issues stemming from BI&A and big data

Change management issues stemming from BI&A and big data

Some of the important references are:

1. Constantiou, I. D., & Kallinikos, J. (2015). New games, new rules: big data and the changing context of strategy. Journal of Information Technology, 30(1), 44-57.

2. Chen, H., Chiang, R. H., & Storey, V. C. (2012). Business Intelligence and Analytics: From Big Data to Big Impact. MIS quarterly, 36(4), 1165-1188.

3. Ketter, W., Peters, M., Collins, J., & Gupta, A. (2015). Competitive Benchmarking: An IS Research Approach to Address Wicked Problems with Big Data and Analytics. MIS Quarterly. (forthcoming)

4. McAfee, A., Brynjolfsson, E., Davenport, T. H., Patil, D. J., & Barton, D. (2012). Big data. The management revolution. Harvard Business Review, 90(10), 61-67.

5. Manyika, J., Chui, M., Brown, B., Bughin, J., Dobbs, R., Roxburgh, C., and Byers, A. H. 2011. “Big Data: The Next Frontier for Innovation, Competition, and Productivity,” McKinsey Global Institute. http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/business-technology/ourinsights/big-data-the-next-frontier-for-innovation; access on 4 March 2016.

6. Kallinikos, J., & Constantiou, I. D. (2015). Big data revisited: a rejoinder. Journal of Information Technology, 30(1), 70-74.

7. McAfee, A., Brynjolfsson, E., Davenport, T. H., Patil, D. J., & Barton, D. (2012). Big data. The management revolution. Harvard Business Review, 90(10), 61-67.

8. Kallinikos, J., & Constantiou, I. D. (2015). Big data revisited: a rejoinder. Journal of Information Technology, 30(1), 70-74.

9. Sharma, R., Mithas, S., & Kankanhalli, A. (2014). Transforming decision-making processes: a research agenda for understanding the impact of business analytics on organisations. European Journal of Information Systems, 23(4), 433-441.

 

REQUIRED

 

Form a group of 3 – 4 members, and following the following points to complete the assignment.

1. Each group is expected to choose one of the above topics and write a research report of about 3000 words.

2. Each report should referenced a minimum of 15 peer reviewed journal articles and conference papers.

3. The report should be well researched and written in accordance with APA referencing style.

4. Each should clearly discussed different aspect of the chosen topic and how these aspects collectively enhance the theoretical and practical knowledge

5. Final deliverable consists of a presentation (10%) in week 8 and a research report (10%) in week 9.

6. Presentation of your findings in this project would be of 10-20-minute duration.

7. Every student is expected to submit a short report to their lecturer stating their contribution to their team. Lecturers reserve the right to reduce a student’s mark if their contribution to their team is deemed insubstantial.

8. Each team is expected to present their report findings as part of the “Team Report Presentation” assessment task during week 8. You are reminded to read the “Plagiarism” section of the course description. Your essay should be a synthesis of ideas from a variety of sources expressed in your own words.

9. All reports must use the APA referencing style. University Referencing/Citation Style Guide:

The University has published a style guide to help students correctly reference and cite information they use in assignments (American Psychological Association (APA) 7th citation style, https://federation.edu.au/library/student-resources/fedcite/content/apa-7th-ed./using-apa-7th-ed./introduction)

10. A passing grade will be awarded to assignments adequately addressing all assessment criteria. Higher grades require better quality and more effort. For example, a minimum is set on the wider reading required. A student reading vastly more than this minimum will be better prepared to discuss the issues in depth and consequently their report is likely to be of a higher quality. So before submitting, please read through the assessment criteria very carefully.

 

Submission

Submit to the drop box on Moodle.

Marking Criteria / Rubric

Refer to the .

Feedback

Feedback will be supplied through Moodle.

Authoritative results will be published on fdlMarks.

Academic Misconduct

To submit your assessment task, you must indicate that you have read and understood, and comply with, the Federation University Australia Academic Integrity and Student Plagiarism policies and procedures (http://policy.federation.edu.au/learning_and_teaching/compliance/academic_integrity/ch02.php).

You must also agree that your work has not been outsourced, and is entirely your own except where work quoted is duly acknowledged. Additionally, you must agree that your work has not been submitted for assessment in any other course or program.

 

Team Report Marking Guide – Marks 100

Weighting: 10 % for Team Report Student IDs:

Assessment Criteria:

Score	Very Good	Good	Satisfactory	Unsatisfactory (0)
Presentation	Information is well	Information is	Information is somewhat	Information is somewhat
/Layout	organized, well written,	organized, well written,	organized, proper	organized, but proper
	and proper grammar	with proper grammar	grammar and	grammar and
	and punctuation are	and punctuation.	punctuation mostly	punctuation not always
	used throughout.	Correct layout used.	used. Correct layout	used. Some elements of
/05 marks	Correct layout used.		used.	layout incorrect.
Structure	Structure guidelines	Structure guidelines	Structure guidelines	Some elements of
	Enhanced	followed exactly	mostly followed.	structure omitted
/10 marks
Introduction	Introduces the topic of	Introduces the topic of	Satisfactorily introduces	Introduces the topic of
	the report in an	the report in an	the topic of the report.	the report, but omits a
	extremely engaging	engaging manner which	Gives a general	general background of
	manner which arouses	arouses the reader’s	background.	the topic and/or the
	the reader’s interest.	interest.	Indicates the overall	overall “plan” of the
	Gives a detailed general	Gives some general	“plan” of the paper.	paper.
	background and	background and
	indicates the overall	indicates the overall
/10 marks	“plan” of the paper.	“plan” of the paper.
Discussion of	All topics discussed in	Consistently detailed	Most topics are	Inadequate discussion
Topics	depth. Displays deep	discussion. Displays	adequately discussed.	of issues Little/no
	analysis of issues with	sound understanding	Displays some	demonstrated
	no irrelevant info.	with some analysis of	understanding and	understanding or
		issues and no irrelevant	analysis of issues.	analysis of most issues
		Information		and/or some irrelevant
/50 marks				information.
Conclusion	An interesting, well	A good summary of the	Satisfactory summary of	Poor/no summary of the
	written summary of the	main points.	the main points.	main points.
	main points.	A good final comment	A final comment on the	A poor final comment on
	An excellent final	on the subject, based	subject, but introduced	the subject and/or new
	comment on the	on the information	new material.	material introduced.
	subject, based on the	provided.
/15 marks	information provided.
Referencing	Correct referencing	Mostly correct	Mostly correct	Not all material correctly
	(APA). All quoted	referencing (APA). All	referencing (APA )	acknowledged.
	material in quotes and	quoted material in	Some problems with	Some problems with the
	acknowledged. All	Quotes & acknowledged.	quoted material and	reference list.
	paraphrased material	All paraphrased material	paraphrased material
	acknowledged.	acknowledged.	Some problems with the
	Correctly set out	Mostly correct setting	reference list.
/10 marks	reference list.	out reference list.
SubTotal-/100 marks
Total out of 10