Course Project Proposal
Order Description
Course Project Proposal
The proposal must be submitted and feedback received from the professor before beginning the project.
The table of contents for the Course Project proposal:
Subject of Course Project
Business problem statement
Name of the company or organization
Brief description of proposed solution
General benefits it will provide the organization
Audience to whom you are presenting the recommendations
Course Project Problems/Suggestions
The Course Project’s focus is on the use of technology to solve specific business problems. Although the list of technologies that you can choose for your Course Project is vast, the following are some current technical topic suggestions appropriate for specific business sectors that you could consider in solving your business problem.
Healthcare
New/updated patient registration system
New/updated system to track research
New/updated system to ensure that needed supplies are delivered to the right locations on the hospital floor
Financial
Automated tracking of employee spending when traveling
New/updated system to take advantage of trading online
Allows customers to make trades more efficiently
Project Management
Automated process of choosing projects
Assist in the process of ranking risks in projects
Automated the process of managing project documentation
Network Management
Manages on-call schedules
Manages the process of vendor selection
Manages the process of contract negotiation
Entrepreneurship
Systems to support new business start-up (website, database)
As a start-up, develop a business model to support both a brick and mortar and e-commerce presence.
Designs the infrastructure needed to support a brick and mortar or online bookstore
Designs a business process to complete customer transactions that maintain customer intimacy
Supply Chain Management
Implements/updates an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system
Designs the infrastructure to support the product development life cycle of a product that has a global product team
Implements a supply chain management system (cloud or in-house based)
Healthcare
Manages/updates the process of scheduling patient visits
Updates the patient paper file system with medical records system
Updates/creates the healthcare website
New system to install voice recognition system to replace transcriptionist positions
Information Security
Updates database security
Creates system to address compliance, governance
Conduct project to ensure cybersecurity
Marketing
Implements/updates a customer relationship management system
Implement salesforce (Cloud or corporate based)
Design a database to handle massive amounts of customer e-mails
Public Administration
Federal government: NSA security database
Local: traffic management
State: human resources system
Some Ideas to Identify a Business Problem
Lack of competitiveness or profitability
Inefficient processes
Slow product development
Obsolete IT organization and technologies
Poor corporate communications
Ongoing personnel issues
Some Benefits it Will Provide the Organization
Financial—profitability, revenue, product costs
Improved competitiveness
Better marketing positioning
Efficiency in key processes, for example, sales, manufacturing, and development
Improved product or service quality
Improved product development
Better and more accurate support turnaround
Preparation for the future—how is the organization positioning itself for future growth
Some Ideas on How the Project Could Tie Together
As an example, you could write your paper on some aspect of e-commerce. You might tie it into targeted advertising. You could then tie the back-end databases that are necessary to support e-commerce. For example, how databases contain information that allows vendors to target their audience and what those databases are.
Another example might be the functionality of enterprise systems. You might choose a specific enterprise system like ERP, CRM, or SCM and detail how the functionality is delivered. This could be how a business person would access this type of information.
The business problem is high cost of IT and product development, and the benefits are profitability, faster development time, or increased sales. The solution might be Cloud computing describing the Cloud computing approach taken; for example, SaaS or Cloud virtualization.