MIS741: Impact of Digital Business- Deakin Business School- Report Writing Assignment

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Report Writing Assignment:

Task:

This is an individual assignment where you will produce a Professional Capability Gap Analysis report, and a separate video. The requirements for the report and video are outlined next. Background work for the Professional Capability Gap Analysis report Identify one (1) job/position which you would like to do after graduation, keeping in mind that:
• the job/position must be achievable given your industry experience and qualifications. For example, students with 6-12 months of industry experience cannot be managers.
• Australian employers of international graduates expect applicants to have Australian work experience relevant to the job/position. If you don’t, then a more realistic goal is to apply for junior / entry-level positions initially.

For example, pick one (1) job/position could include desktop/software support (entry level) or (junior) business analyst (requires at least 12 months’ relevant industry experience), or alternative job/position title depending on your level of IS/ICT industry experience.

Identify at least four detailed descriptions (FOUR ADVERTISEMENTS) for your chosen job/position:
• Full-time students who will seek a job after graduation should identify position descriptions for job vacancy advertisements for your desired post-graduation position title.
• Part-time students who are currently employed, this assignment will not relate to your current position, but rather a position you aspire to attain (e.g. position in a new company, promotion) after graduation. Identify position descriptions from your company and/or other companies applicable to this role.
• Full- or part-time students who plan to start their own business after graduation can identify contract job descriptions reflecting the type of work you will do with clients.

Conduct research into the professional capabilities (e.g. skills, knowledge) for the position using recent (2014+), credible, authoritative industry sources. This includes documents, reports or articles written by the Australian Computer Society, academic articles about the job/position capabilities, industry reports (eg from Forrester Research, Gartner Group, Ernst and Young, PWC), etc. Four example sources to get you started are as follows. The first two are generic lists of ICT skills which over all ICT jobs. You need to research about your chosen job/position and work out which of these generic ICT skills apply to our chosen job/position:

• SFIA Foundation 2015, ‘SFIDA framework: SFA V6, the sixth major revision of the Skills Framework for the Information Age’, retrieved 26 February 2018, https://www.sfia-online.org/en/sfia-6/home

In particular, look under the sections “Levels of responsibility” and “Skills”. For example, the “Skills” which are core for Business Analysts include “Strategy and architecture”, “Change and Transformation”, “User Experience”, “Quality and Conformance”, “Stakeholder Management” and “Sales and Marketing”. The “Levels of Responsibility” provide greater detail of the depth of each skill required for entry through to managerial roles.

ACS 2015, ‘the ACS core body of knowledge for ICT professionals (CBOK), Australian Computer Society’, retrieved 26th February 2018, https://www.acs.org.au/content/dam/acs/acs-skills/The-ACS-Core-Body-of-Knowledge-for-ICT-Professionals-CBOK.pdf

Focus on pages 16 – 24, because the ACS CBOK discusses SFIA as well. Note that the CBOK covers all ICT jobs/positions, so it is important to interpret the skill in a way which is consistent with your chosen job/position. For example, the critical CBOK skill blocks for a Business Analyst are “ICT problem solving”, “Professional knowledge”, and “Outcomes management”. A broad understanding of “Services management” and “Technology resources” is needed at a minimum. Business Analysts generally do not do programming, but do need to know how IS are built as part of the “Technology building” skill block.

Examples of two academic articles relevant to Business Analyst roles are:
• Paul, D. & Tan, Y.L. 2015, ‘An investigation of the role of business analysts in IS development’, Proceedings of the 23rd European Conference on Information Systems, Munster, Germany, retrieved 7 February 2017,
• Babar, A., Wong, B. & Abedin, B. 2014, ‘Investigating the role of business analysts competencies into strategic business requirements gathering’, Proceedings of the 18th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, Chengdu, China, 24-28 June, retrieved 7 February 2017,

You should be able to identify at least ten (10) additional sources relating to the professional capabilities of the position in addition to the one job/position and the four sources above. This means that your research should produce at least FOURTEEN (14) high quality, credible sources. For Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs) Discipline-specific knowledge (GLO1), Critical thinking (GLO4), Team work (GLO7), undertake the following analysis:

• Synthesise the important professional capabilities associated with each of the three GLOs from the four detailed job/position descriptions and your additional research.

• Research what you need to do during your Masters course to improve at least one (or more) of your capabilities for each GLO. Remember, successful and good IS professionals always seek to improve their skills and are not satisfied with their current skill level. Identify specific strategies/techniques you can use to improve. For example:
A. not just ‘certifications’, but which specific certifications
B. not just ‘internship’, but what company, size, internship unit, etc
C. not just ‘professional networking’, but with whom, what events, etc?

What to include in the Professional Capability Gap Analysis report?
You will write an individual Professional Capability Gap Analysis as follows (after background work):

A maximum of 500 words (about GLO1 180 words, GLO4 160 words, GLO7 160 words) for the report body which maps (e.g. using a table) the three Deakin GLOs against the important professional capabilities and, for each GLO and associated capabilities, the:
A. Specific capabilities you need to improve (not your strengths, just weaknesses)
B. Strategies you will use to achieve these capability improvements
• The following (cover page and these are not in the word count) in Harvard format style:
o Reference list of the fifteen (15) or more research sources cited in the report body
o An appendix with copies of the four detailed job/position descriptions. http://www.deakin.edu.au/students/studying/study-support/referencing/harvard

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