Preparing and arguing key assumptions

Today’s business world is constantly in a state of “continual improvement”. As an ITM specialist, you need to see where companies can use technology to enhance their businesses. This is a skill that is greatly valued by companies today – to have an employee that can see an issue or opportunity and be able to help a company capitalize on it.

Thus, the midterm project for this class consists of developing a business case for an idea you have to improve a business. The idea must be scalable to the course timing (which is 8 weeks). Thus, all topics for this deliverable must be approved by the professor in advance of delivering a finished product. Your idea is yours to develop but it MUST have an IT solution to a problem you see in the work-world. Discussion on ideas will be held in class or as discussions (one-on-one) with the instructor but you should be thinking about your topic from the first day of class.

There are many resources that can be helpful to use, including talking to the professor. For this class, there is a LIBRARY GUIDE that has been developed which has information on business cases. There are several You-Tubes and books that might be of help by simply “googling” business case analysis. Another good place to look at is a show called “Shark Tank” which shows business case pitches consistently. This is a good place to learn about “story telling” techniques that work well in reality. There are many databases within the school library that can provide you historical and current data to assist you in this project. In addition, the GGU Business Librarian is an outstanding source as well. All of these resources should be sought and potentially used in the development of your paper and presentation.

Syllabus Instructions: Development of a Business Case for a selected product.

Preface

Table of Contents

2. 1. Technology Map (what is your recommendation and how will it work?)
3. Summary of Value Results
4. Next Actions – in summary format
Introduction
2. 3. Business Case Analysis Process and Resources
Analysis
3. 2. Risk Analysis
  3. Sensitivity Analysis
2. Next steps (such as approval to continue to research; move to a project; obtain funding… These should be the next 1-5 critical steps that need to be taking and why they need to be taken…and should end with “do we have your approval for the next steps to proceed?” Your goal is to get to “YES” here.)

References (at least10 sites)