MN4057 Digital Business Management and Emerging Technologies
Assessment 1 Specifications and Marking Criteria
| Assessment Title | Assessment 1 – Individual Digital Report | ||
| Module Title | Digital Business Management and Emerging Technology | ||
| Module Code | MN4057 | Number of Credits | 15 |
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| Assessment Weighting (%) | 100% | ||
| Submission Deadline | |||
| Procedure for/where to submit work | Turnitin via Web learn under ‘online submission’ tab and assessment 1 link (the submission link will be available from 2nd Jan 2024). Please follow announcement for further instruction regarding submission. | ||
| Feedback Date | 9th Jan 2024+ 15 working days | ||
| Word Limit | 1500 (+/- 10%) for websites, blogs . For digital story telling, video or audio presentations there are no word limit.
For Video and audio presentations the time limit is minimum 10 minutes and maximum 15 minutes. |
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| Format | Digital Report (you are expected to answer the tasks mentioned in ‘assessment task’ section of this document in the form of digital report i.e. video presentation, in the form of website, blog, voice over presentation etc.) | ||
General Information
- This is an individual
- Each student must only submit their work online using ONLY Weblearn Turnitin link. Please follow the instructions provided in Weblearn’s “Online Assessment” folder. Your work will NOT be assessed if you failed to submit online before 3pm on 9th Jan 2024.
- Note: Your digital report submissions must contain the Harvard
- You will be marked as fail if you have missed the deadline for online submission.
- Your assignment will be scanned by a plagiarism detecting tool (turnitin). Your assignment must be a piece of personal and genuine work.
| Assessment Tasks
Firstly, you must research and select a company and its website which has not been selected by your peers. • Note: Please email 3 choices of company to your seminar tutor by week 4 and your seminar tutor will confirm which company you will work with out of your three choices. Please do not start work on the company website until it has been approved by your seminar tutor. • The chosen company website will be allocated to students on a first come first serve basis. This assignment requires each student choose a website of a company and research on their websites and online business strategies and, 1. Identify the E-business model that the website pursues (week 1 topic) Consider E-business concepts and approaches to comment on specific strengths and weaknesses of your chosen website. 2. Identify competitive strategy and digital business strategy the company has followed and provide recommendations/suggestions with clear justifications (week 2 topic). 3. Identify their digital marketing strategies and options and provide recommendations/suggestions with clear justifications (week 4 topic). 4. Using similar web market intelligence platform (similarweb.com) please discuss the customer traffic data and provide recommendations/suggestions for further improvement with clear justification (week 4 topic). 5. Identify the company’s e-CRM and social network channels linked with the website and provide recommendations/suggestions for further improvement with clear justification (week 5 topic). 6. Identify the cyber security measures the company website has in place discuss if the company website comply with e-business ethics and provide recommendations/suggestions with justification (week 9 and10 topic). |
| **** Please use theories or concepts from academic sources to support your discussion, recommendations, justifications and reference them using Harvard referencing style. |
Specific Instructions
- You are expected to do much background reading from textbooks and other academic journal articles, news mediums as well as conduct adequately research evidence to support your review and discussion.
Reference style must follow Harvard Reference Systems. The university library web site has “A guide to academic referencing” at https://student.londonmet.ac.uk/media/londonmetropolitan–university/london–met–documents/professional–service–departments/libraryservices/referencing/HarvardReferencingGuideFull2016–05.pdf