The purpose of this assignment is to enable students in teams to review and examine appropriate
information system solutions for an organization within an industry. The findings of your study will be
presented through:
a. A group report
b. Interactive presentation.
Teams will comprise of two (2) students per team. If it is necessary, with the approval of your lecturer,
you can consider forming a team of three (3) students per team.
An organization can be selected from world’s 500 largest companies. The list is available at:
http://fortune.com/global500/. Upon selecting on of the organization within an industry, you are
required to complete the following requirements:
• Industry background: Review the industry involved and provide a comprehensive review of
the industry sector, including history, current environment and transformations and future
scope.
• Business model and environment: identify the business model that the organization is
adopting as well as identifying their target audience and business scope, using the following
analysis methods conduct an analysis of the chosen business.
o SWOT (Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats) analysis.
o Porters 5 forces.
• Propose and appraise the organization’s IT infrastructure based on previous business model
and environment analysis.