Integrating Issue: Management Integration
As we noted earlier, the following reference sites provide a wide variety of white papers, case studies, web casts or product information relating to information technology management in practical contexts. By now, you should have a pretty good idea of what they contain and how to find things:
TechRepublic’s White Papers site, found at http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers
Bitpipe.com’s TechTarget Library, found at http://www.bitpipe.com/
For this Module, please select at least two white papers, case studies, web casts or product information items dealing with strategic management of information technology and its integration with other management decision making (that is, this module’s general topic). Your aim should be to find some resources or information that will help you write a better case paper for this module.
Then, in 2-3 pages, address the following questions:
What your white papers, case studies or webcasts were all about
Why you selected the ones you did
What you learned from your experiences that was relevant to your case paper
Any things that you learned from this experience that should help you do the same thing in future modules
Please note:
Your grade is not dependent on the specific materials you select. Obviously, your learning will be greater the more you are able to accomplish; but the major factor in grading the Project will be the work that you invest in it and the energy that you apply to learning from the experience, whatever it might be.
SLP Assignment Expectations
LENGTH: 2-3 pages typed and double-spaced
The following items will be assessed in particular:
•The degree to which you have carried out the assignment completely, or clarified why you could not and investigated alternatives.
•Your ability to focus on the overall purposes of the assignment, not just its specific steps.
•Your use of some in-text references to what you have read; please cite all sources properly.
Also, make sure when you present quantifying information that you provide the source so it doesn’t appear that you fabricated the numbers. For instance you state, “The number of patient being managed using telehealth today technologies at VHA for non-institutional care, acute disease management, chronic disease management and health promotion and disease prevention has risen to current years to almost 70,000. ” What is the sources of this information???
Scholarly Writing: Start your papers with an introduction / background to give the reader a sense of the issues involved, and what you intend to argue (be sure to tell what you will cover – hint: use your headings). Then, begin go into proving your premise, i.e., building your argument. Last, tell me what you have proven, i.e., wrap it up with your conclusion.
As stated in the Elements of Well Written Paper presentation, your introduction should include: The problem/issue, the solution/response, how you will prove it. This tells why you are writing the paper. Also per the Elements of Well Written Paper presentation, your introduction should also: clearly state each problem or issue being discussed. This tells what will be covered in the paper. You should also (depending on the type of paper you are writing) state the solution to the problem or your response to the issue and state how you will prove or demonstrate that your solution or response is correct.
Quality of References and Assignment Organization: A few comments to help you improve your formatting.
— Papers should be double spaced with no extra lines between paragraphs. Use 0/0 for the paragraph spacing – not AUTO or anything else.
— Indent your paragraphs 1/2″ – the easiest way to do this is either use the tab function or paragraph indentation “special” first line .5″.
— Include headings for any paper which exceeds two pages (basically, all papers)
— It is perfectly permissible to put an extra line prior to headings, but not after.
— The approved Trident font is Times New Roman 12 point font.
— Margins should be set at 1 inch, and header / footer margins from the top / bottom of the page should be no more than 1/2 inch.
— Page numbers and “running heads” (headers for each page) should be inserted using “headers and footers.” To access those in Word 2003, use the VIEW pull down menu. For Word 2007, double-click in the header.
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