For this essay we would like you to examine your awareness of current affairs, challenges, technological developments, trends and issues in relation to recent development in computer science.
The essay fulfils the learning outcome where you are to critically appraise the emerging trends in the field of computer science and the professional and ethical requirements for dealing with such contemporary computer-based technologies.
For this task, you need to select an organisation as a case example for which secondary information is available through articles, webpages or you may have a contact working for this organisation.
Assignment Topic
Select an emerging theme that you wish to investigate.
It may include, social medial, virtual environment, corporate and social responsibility, or any other recent advances.
You may visit a site to check the recent call for conference papers.
Possible areas of investigation it could include:
Cloud computing.
Big data.
Internet of Things.
E-healthcare.
Cyber Security.
Cyber Physical systems.
Database applications and systems.
Decide on the direction of your research and a company for which you will conduct a case study.
Your research should be of interest to current societal needs and be applied on a case organisation.
Carry out a background research on your chosen topic. The aim of this step is for you to find out what is current in the chosen topic, and what research has been carried out so far. This will help you to decide the direction of your research.
You must select an organisation which you will be investigating as a case example in your essay. This should be a suitably large corporation on which you will apply the concepts of information system strategy and management.
Select an appropriate title for your essay. The research carried out so far should help you in this.
Now investigate the issues below in the context of your chosen organisation. Your investigation should be limited within the scope of your chosen topics, i.e., social media, virtual environment, corporate and social responsibility, cloud management, big data or artificial intelligence.
Office, process and document automations have changed the business atmosphere in terms of operations and co-operations. Evaluate, with examples, how your chosen organisation has adapted the technology that has facilitated the changes in working practices and habits, productivity and management efficiencies.
Critically discuss and evaluate the benefits and drawbacks of implementing such technology in the organisation.
Competitive advantage is one of the benefits businesses strive to achieve in the application and use of information systems. Critically analyse with the aid of diagrams, models and/or frameworks, how the organisation can achieve efficiency by implementing the technology that you are proposing.
Outline the threats, security and other challenges that your proposed technology can impose on the organisation. What recommendations do you have to protect this organisation from these threats?
Assignment Guidance
Your essay should contain the following aspects:
A description of the context of your essay in the form of an overview, i.e. the theme and organisation you have selected, background and the rationale for selection.
Research contents on the technology analysed, its associated problems, and solution proposal.
An in-depth review of the proposed solution, use of models for application/enhancement of the technology, i.e. technology adaptation models, and identifying social impacts and threats.
A scholarly review of the suggested solution.
Learning Outcomes
Identify and explain the architecture, structure and functionality of basic components of a computer system.
Critically appraise the emerging trends in the field, such as cloud computing, big data, cyber security, and the professional and ethical requirements for dealing with such contemporary computer-based technologies.
