Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Further Paper Tips

1.Make sure you have enough technical details, like system architecture and processes flowcharts.
2.Alerts and their propagation with supply chains could be explored in more details.
3.To get distinctions, you should have some distinctive focus / extensions in your paper and not just follow a general approach.
4.Employing a MAIS solution will receive extra merits as it is a viable advanced solution distinctive from a standard approach.

Friday, October 3, 2008

First Time to Write a Term Paper

Student: This is the first time to recieve a request to write a term paper. I am not clear about the content (Do I need stick to some of the content in the lecture note or ........??) and structure of paper.

My Response: Next lecture, I shall talk about some simple papers and teach the class more about writing papers (Mandy Tong's paper is shortened but still a very good one):
http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~comp7580/audit.doc

As for content, you can see take a look at the sample papers in the course website. I also have instructions on the paper guideline. See:
http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~comp7580/paper.htm

Also - how to write a paper:
http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~comp7580/write.ppt

If you have no industrial experience - don't worry:

Student: My undergraduate diploma is business administration, just a management degree. I studied the electronic business when I was in my second semester in my university life. But it is mostly study about the management, how to manage the business activities by the Internet and how the Internet changes the business activities today. However, I did not learn how to use the IT technology to transform the business activities, so I chose this course, in one hand, I had some basic knowledge of this course, in the other hand, I want to learn more about how to use the IT technology to transform the business activities. I considered that is important for me whatever I enjoy the management or IT technology job in the future. I have no work experience before, so this project is not so easy for me. If somebody who did the job about the business may understand more about what they learn in the course, because they can combine the knowledge and job experience to make them in depth understanding. So, sometimes I feel the materials teaching in course are a little arid and remote. Some of them are hardly to understanding. How could I solve this problem correctly?

My response:

This is a good start - please proceed to choose an industry of your interest.It is fine to have a strong management background - so did you study any industry in depth through some other courses / projects / case studies? Say, tourism, banking, hotel, logistics, etc.? Or you can pick an specialism, like accounting, human resource management, marketing, etc.?
Pls tell me a bit more about your background so that I can give youappropriate suggestions :-)
Main Announcements Archive:

  • COMP 3710 / 7580 are in two different grading pools. The marking standards will probably be around the same though I shall adjust if indeed necessary.
  • Project Proposal - only need: Title / abstract / draft introduction and best with some related work / other section and subsection headings or outline - postponed for one week (early October) because of holidays.
  • Exam weight (70%) updated according to new syllabus of the department.
  • IT infrastructures / systems analyst and design as well as emerging technology application in advanced case studies are the theme of this course.
  • Most cases are based on publications of the lecturer in order to provide first hand information and in-depth understanding.
  • In Lecture 2, I shall present the main case study first before the enabling technologies. Note that technical details of those enabling technologies (as opposed to COMP7770) are not the focus of this course.
  • Technical details are for references and illustration - so they will not be examined.
  • The contemporary approach is to achieve both information integration and process integration via service-oriented integration, so called "Service-Oriented Architecture" (SOA).