BIS Practical Assessment
Week 4, Session 8: Tasks checklist
Overview
A checklist is a useful tool for quality management. It provides confidence and assurance that we focus our learning effort and energy on completing work relevant to the assignment requirements. The following checklist can be used by individuals and groups to optimise the quality of their work against what is being requested in the assignment brief specification.
Task 1 – CEO
SECTOR:
What sector did your group choose?
Why did you choose it compared to the other two sectors?
What is the composition of and dynamics within your sector? Use Porter’s Five Forces Analysis.
BUSINESS:
What is the name of your business?
Perhaps explain why you chose your name.
PRODUCTS/SERVICES/BOTH:
Explain what you offer to customers and other stakeholders.
Evaluate the ways your offer is attractive to customers and other stakeholders.
PROCESSES:
Analyse how you create and deliver your offer to customers and other stakeholders.
In other words, evaluate your business model
HOW TO GROW:
Summarise your cloud and BIS proposals at the end of task 1
The group keeps talking about the cloud solutions & BIS in all tasks.
Task 2 – COO
Strategic Plan
Outline your Mission (purpose, present day)
Outline your Vision (where do you want to go, what do you want to become, future tense)
Strategic Position – select and apply your understanding of one of the following using Porter’s Generic Strategies:
Cost leadership or focus
Differentiation leadership or focus
Show your understanding of what your strategic position means for your business (opportunities and risks)
Strategic Objectives
Analyse how your strategic position translates into specific, measurable, actionable, realistic and timely objectives (i.e. actions to achieve cost or differentiation).
What resources or skills to you need to achieve each of your objectives (actions)?
Task 3 – Business Analyst
Value creation and delivery should be analysed using the Value Chain and Virtual Value Chain models (using part or whole, especially technology development).
Value type should be exemplified in terms of only one of the following:
hard/soft, or
qualitative/quantitative, or
tangible/intangible, or
financial/non-financial
Analyse each value example in terms of its level within your business using the three Levels of strategy model:
Strategic
Business/Tactical
Operational
Task 4 – Project Manager
Analyse how you will clarify and test your strategic and value claims using Kaplan and Norton’s Balanced Scorecard model.
Select and complete up to four scorecard dimensions in your research (customer, financial, internal business processes, learning & growth) in terms of:
Objectives (continuous improvement activities to implement for success).
Measures (specific units to track organisational performance).
Targets (the desired level of performance for each measure).
Initiatives (projects that help to reach the targets).
During the assessment meeting, exemplify one or two areas from selected dimensions, based on your best understanding of and confidence in the examples selected and the role of your cloud solutions & BIS in supporting the examples.
Task 5 – CTO
Your cloud solutions and BIS should be analysed and communicated in terms of their specific relationship to:
Hardware selected and implemented,
Software selected and implemented,
Data and information created, managed, secured and analysed,
Networks and telecommunications selected and implemented,
HR resources required to support delivery of the business and business technologies.
You should also demonstrate understanding of your business relationship with the internet (opportunities and risks) applying selected concepts covered such as:
Disintermediation/Reintermediation
Internet of Things,
Web 2.0/3.0,
Industry 4.0,
Artificial intelligence
Machine Learning
Big Data & analytics
AR/VR/MR
Digital Twining
