ISYS3015

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• ISYS3015
• Analytical Methods for Information systems
  professionals
• Week 2 Lecture 2
• Problem Recognition

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The Research Process
Problem Recognition
Problem Structuring
Research Design
Data Collection (Surveys, Requirements
Elicitation, experiments, focus groups etc.)
(PILOT STUDY followed the FULL SCALE study)
Data Analysis, generating, interpreting results
Writing up results and recommendations
Implementation
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Problem Recognition/Selecting the Research Topic

• Personal Interest
• Suggested by Research/Practitioner Literature
• Emergence of a new technology
• Perceptions of discrepancy between desired and
  actual state
• Management Directives and Policies
• Social Concerns/Popular Issues

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Conceptual Framewrok

• Identify Key Concepts
• Define the Key Concepts
• Operationalise the Concepts
• Explore systematic relationship between the
  concepts.

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Specific Research Questions

• Main Considerations
• -Specificity and answerability can the questions
  be answered through research?
• Scale and Scope in relation to needs, available
  resources.
• Resource Adequacy in Relation to available time.

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Research Strategy and Design

• Data gathering methods
• - Type of method to be used.
• - Type of data to be gathered.
• - Pilot Study
• Data analysis methods
• Budget and timetable
• Reporting the results

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Employee Self-Service (ESS) Module of PeopleSoft
ERP system (Univ. of Sydney)

• System Development and Testing completed.
• Need to decide on university-wide roll out and a
  strategy doing this.

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Reducing Cycle Time for New Product Development
at Bosch

• Average cycle time for new product
  development/product redesign was 18 months need
  to compress it to 9-12 months

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3G Wireless Applications for the Univ. of Sydney

• 3G wireless technology emerging as the foundation
  for mobile applications in a range of domains.
• The Major Projects Group at the university wants
  to
• Make an assessment of the feasibility and
  viability of the technology and the applications
  it can offer
• Identify potential applications that the uni
  might benefit from.
• Develop business cases for these applications

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Decision Support System application for Johnson
Johnson

• Need to decide on how much to spend on a variety
  of special promotions at large retail outlets of
  JJ such as Woolworths, Coles.
• Prefer a system solution to the problem.