Step 1: select an industry in which you are interested. For example, commercial airlines, commercial banking, retail, beauty, IT, publishing, hospitality, leisure and tourism, automotive, construction etc.

Step 2: select one or more organisations in your chosen industry to research. You should investigate the sort of systems they use or would benefit from using to solve a current or future problem.

Task 1

Report content:

Investigate the problem in the scenario relevant to the organisation you have chosen and prepare a fully referenced report that includes:

a) A plan that indicates the steps to be followed to solve the problem and the timescales

b) Overview of the scenario and problem definition

c) Identification of success criteria

d) Description of possible solutions

e) Evaluation of analysis and justification of proposed solution

Task 2

Report structure:

The report should include:

Table of contents

Introduction (brief overview of the report)

Main body (Task 1)

Conclusion (summary of report)

List of references