Assignment 3— Executive Report and Presentation
(Available marks: 40)
Due Dates:
Presentation— scheduled sessions in week 11or 12.
Paper— scheduled week 11 or 12.
This is a group assignment. Each group should consist of 3-4 students. Each group must email a list of members to the workshop leader after forming a group.
Background
Modern day Enterprise systems (ES) deliver the fundamentals benefits of integrating processes, optimization and delivering efficiency across many areas. These are core benefits expected in any implementation and the ES is primarily configured to provide the functional business needs. However, ES can be leverage to provide further second-wave digital benefits for a business by facilitating:
Innovation— reflecting the creation of novel or different products, services or businesses processes, or even disruptive business models,
Automation— reflecting the situation where the ES is aligned with the subsequent replacement of manually undertaken tasks,
Decision-making— reflecting capabilities that allow the vast amounts of data collected by a firm to be analyzed by advanced methods and inform peoples decisions,
Connectivity— reflecting how the ES enables closer cooperation, engagement and interactivity amongst important external or internal entities (connectivity does not refer to the technology used but the business benefits).
The scenario
You work for a large organization and the CEO has recently attended industry, academic and SAP events and heard that other firms are leveraging their enterprise wide systems in these four areas. Accordingly, you have been requested to prepare a research report and a presentation on how the firm’s enterprise systems can be used to deliver value in these four areas (assume that your firm has a system already in place). Use at least 2 case study examples for each of the four areas in your report showing what benefits can be achieved by firms. Notably benefits may span multiple areas and this issue should be explored in the paper.
The report must be written for management. Each group will prepare and deliver a PowerPoint presentation on the findings documented in the report.
The 20-30 minute presentation is to be for a management audience. Please do not to use text intense slides with detailed bullet points as you would find in an academic environment - remember that management will have a copy of the full report. Slides should only be used to illustrate relationships between concepts— so try and use relevant images, tables, maps, charts, graphs, etc where appropriate for the presentation.
Each group member is to prepare and present their part of the presentation, but the presentation must flow— appearing consistent and seamless.
Assignment Details
The report should be some 4000 words in length and demonstrate depth and breadth of reading. All reports are to be submitted to the Assessment Dropbox link in Collaborate allowing a Turnitin similarity report to be generated. Hence, only one student in the group should submit the paper to check for similarity.

Format— use 1.5 spacing with a 10 point font. You should consult appropriate references from the library and other suitable sources. Citation of sources is mandatory and must be in the Harvard style. Given that this will be a current issues paper, references should be not older than 5-7 years.
Your report must include:
Title Page Includes the title of the paper, date, student names and student IDs.
Executive Summary This is an overview of the report which identifies the purpose of the report, directs the reader to key points or issues presented in the report, and summarises conclusions. (Maximum length is 1 page).
Table of Contents Headings used should assist the reader to find information in the report.
Introduction A statement of the purpose for the report and a brief description of its structure. Some discussion of the context and reason for the report is often included as well. This is where the assignment question (s) should be re-stated. Include the paper’s structure.
Body Present the different issues that have been previously documented on the topic using a variety of research articles and industry examples. Please make sure your discussion matches the stated purpose of the report and include the cases study throughout. Discuss and support any conclusions that can be reached using the evidence provided by the research articles you have found. Note: details about the different industry cases studies should not be a standalone section of the paper.
Conclusion A summary of the points you have made in the body of the report. The conclusion should not introduce any ‘new’ material that was not discussed in the body of the report.
Word Count Include a word count at the end of the paper just after the conclusion section.
References Includes a list of sources used in the text. The Harvard system should be used.
Appendix Include a screen image of your final Turnitin similarity score.

The footer must include the group member’s names, student IDs, and page number. The header should include the title of the paper.
All reports need to be submitted to Turnitin via Collaborate.
Submission of reports
The written report must be prepared according to the guidelines above and be uploaded via the Assessment Dropbox navigation area of Collaborate by one member of the group.

This ‘soft’ copy of your report is to be in a single file. The file name must contain your group’s family names— for instance, Lee_Fritzsche_Potnis_Sellitto.docx.
The file must contain the whole report however, please DO NOT include the declaration form in this file. **Another Assessment Dropbox option will be created for each group to submit their work including the declaration form.
*Penalties for late paper submissions will be enforced at 25% of available marks (7.5 marks). No report can be submitted later than one week after the due date.
**Turnitin Similarity
In this assessment task, it is expected that students will achieve a similarity score of less than 10%.
Note: Originality Reports are not plagiarism reports, nor are percentage matches indicative of levels of plagiarism. They are simply a tool to assist in bringing any similarity matching in text to an assessor’s attention. The originality report requires interpretation and interrogation, and a case by case examination of whether plagiarism has occurred or not will be performed. Should similarity breaches occur, penalties will be at the discretion of the LH and VU educators.
Report Marking Guide (30 Marks)
1 Report has an identified purpose (2 marks) Mark
i) Report introduces topic (1)
ii) States the purpose of the report restating the assignment question (1)

2 Body of report has appropriate content (18 marks)
i) Contains appropriate material (2)
ii) Presents a well structured discussion (3)
iii) Report is on topic and addresses the assignment question (3)
iv) Report contains original ideas and/or takes a novel approach (2)
v) Topic capabilities/functionality clearly explained (2)
vi) Includes a suitable number of appropriate industry examples (6)

3 References & Grammar (8 marks)
i) Citations are indicated correctly (Harvard) (2)
ii) Grammatical expression is satisfactory (4)
iii) Citation are recent— not greater than 5-7 years (2)

4 Professional presentation of paper (2 marks)
i) Title page, TOC, date, names, header/footers, figures & tables labelled properly, consistent fonts— it must looks like a document for management!

Total Score 30
Presentation Marking Guide (10 Marks)
Content (3 marks) Mark
Clear Outline of report
Covered report contents
Demonstrated knowledge of material

Team organisation (2 marks)
Shared responsibility.
Effective transitions between speakers
Timing within limit.
Good cohesive, seamless delivery.

Presentation technique (2 marks)
Quality of multi-media visuals / supporting materials (for instance— used relevant images, tables, maps, charts, graphs; clarity in slides)
Ability to answer questions

Delivery (3 marks)
Professional presentation to a business audience.
Quality of vocabulary / professional use of language.
Spoke clearly and confidently / regulated pitch and volume.
Maintenance of audience engagement and eye contact.
Passive presence of non-presenting team members.
Total Score 10