COLLEGE OF COMPUTER STUDIES

2nd Trimester, School Year 2021-2022

COMP633- IS STRATEGY, MANAGEMENT & ACQUISITION- FINAL PROJECT

IN-COURSE PROJECT (ICPC)

Instructions:
ALL questions and requirements presented in this project shall be answered or complied by the student or
group.
Marks will be awarded for good presentation and thoroughness in your approach.
NO marks would be awarded for the entire project if any part is found to be copied directly from printed
materials or from another student.
Complete this cover sheet and attach it to your In-Course Project Output.
No of pages should be 15 – 25 pages.

Total number of pages including this cover page Group

Course Section Time/Days Due Date Date Submitted
COMP633 FC 3 April 2022
rd

Course Title IS STRATEGY, MANAGEMENT & ACQUISITION

Group Members: BH
Student Number and Full BH
Name BH
Professor’s Name DR. KALAICHELVI CHANDRAHASAN

Teacher’s/Marker’s Comments Marking Scheme & Rubrics (As attached)

1. Technical Report 30
Should include 8 subheadings given in the
structure
2. Plagiarism Report 5
3. Project Presentation 5
4. Presentation Material (PPT Slides /Video) 10
Marker’s Name Total Marks/ Marks Awarded 50
Signature Grade Equivalent
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TECHNICAL REPORT
The technical reports must be covered the structure in details
 Choose any scenario from the real world and prepare a technical report.
 The Structure of the Technical Report
 Prepare a technical report based on the scenario chosen as per the given
topics as below:

Choose one of the following Topics:-

 Information System Strategy in Your working Organization
 Impact of IT in Bahrain Government Sector
 IT Security Issues in Bahrain

 The structure of the technical report:

1. Title Page
Write the Title of the report with the formatting as below:
Each word in the title should be capitalized, except for “a,” “the,” “on,” “in,” etc.
The line spacing (Double spaces).
The date should be the month and year you will be able to complete the technical report.

2. List of Contents
The table of contents includes the following
- listing the page numbers of the contents starting from Introduction, list of tables, list of
figures; etc...

3. Introduction

The technical report must include one-to-two paragraph. This is a the overview of the reports , include
a statement of the problem, a brief description of the methodology used and the argument advanced, the
conclusion. It should be single spaced.
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4. Goals / Objectives of the report

Explain the main objective for this report and what is the purpose of this technical reports

5. Design
a. Principles regarding to your topic such as :

Background , Definitions , advantage, disadvantage, limitation , any information related to the topics, &
etc...

b. Methodologies

i.e. the framework of the methods that used, the methods in details , software or hardware requirements ,
structure , figures , tables & etc…., Note that the methodology should be implemented and supported
with the example.

6. Conclusion
Summarize your main points of evidence for the reader in one paragraph. The result achieved from this
research.

7. References
Use the APA style :

Format : (authors name, publication year, Title of the Topics “,Vol. , ISSN No., Page No.: ,
Publisher (Journal , University Site …. ,). E.g. [1] Emesto Panadero & Anders Josson . Jane
2013 .”The use of scoring rubrics for formative assessment purposes revisited: A review”,
volume 9, Page 9-144, Educational research review.

8. Appendix (if applicable)

Includes any other coding, tables, graphs, illustrations, or other material relevant to the technical
report should be included as appendices, consistent with the conventions of the discipline.
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Documentation Format:
 All paragraphs must be justified and double-spaced.
 Information can include proper diagram and pictures wherever necessary with table or figure
numbering.
 The entire document should be in Arial 12 pt.
 All section headings must be in Arial 12 pt bold.
 Include this cover page with all the required information from your group. Student signatures
are essential. Do not miss it.

OTHER IMPORTANT NOTES/INSTRUCTIONS:

 This is a group project (3 members in each group).
 Use this document to work with your project. No project will be accepted without the
coverpage.
 Follow the format as prescribed.
1. Upload the softcopy of your In-Course Project in the Moodle.
2. Upload Plagiarism Report together with the ICPC.
3. Upload the Project presentation (power point presentation).

Application – Illustration/Figure/Diagram/Drawing (5 & 10 Points Rubric):

9 -10/ 5 All accurate facts/concepts are displayed in the diagram/illustration/ Details/parts (including labels) support the
main idea/ The graphics used represent information appropriately.

7 – 8/ 4 At least 3 accurate facts are displayed in the diagram/illustration/ Detail is added to support each main idea/
Most graphics/parts represent the information appropriately.

4 – 6/ 3 At least 2 accurate facts are displayed in the diagram/illustration / More is needed for understanding/ All
graphics/parts relate to the topic but do not represent appropriately.

1 – 3/ 2 Fewer than 2 accurate facts are displayed/ Very little detail is provided for the main ideas and understanding is
limited/ Graphics/parts do not relate to the topic.

0/ 0-1 Inaccurate facts are displayed/presented/ No details provided for the main ideas and understanding is missing/
Graphics/parts do not relate to the topic.

Essay Questions (5 & 10 Points Rubric)

15-13 / 5Excellent Elements are applied in an effective and correct way

10-12/ 4 (V Good) - Correct elements have been applied all the time
7-9 / 3(Good) - Correct elements have been applied most of the time
4-6 / 2(Satisfactory) - Correct elements have been applied some of the time
1-3/ 1 (Unsatisfactory) - Correct elements are rarely or never used
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AMAZON IS Strategy

Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................5

Evaluation of Current Strategy............................................................................................5

Competitive Advantage and Scope......................................................................................6

Conclusion...........................................................................................................................7
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Introduction

Amazon is the world's biggest web-based retailer and a trailblazer in the field of web
selling. It started as a web-based book shop, yet because of its prosperity, it has extended
to sell whatever can be bought on the web. Moreover, Amazon has developed
universally, and presently manages a mix of confined entrances and globalized
transportation and coordinated operations stages from one side of the planet to the other.

Numerous contenders have endeavored to emulate and further develop Amazon's plan of
action by taking advantage of innovation as a wellspring of upper hand and receiving the
rewards of economies of scale as well as bridling collaborations between interior assets
and outside powers.

Beside that, the principle components in this exposition are that the essential choices
offered and proposed should stick to the thought of being corresponding and extra to the
organization's center abilities. At long last, this paper says that if Amazon needs to keep
its market administrative role, it requirements to zero in on the rising versatile business
region.

Evaluation of Current Strategy

Concentric expansion can be utilized to portray Amazon's overall organization procedure.
This procedure depends on utilizing innovative capacities for business achievement and
sticking to an expense initiative technique pointed toward offering the most benefit for its
clients at the least cost, as well as folding its business over its clients, who see Amazon as
their go-to gateway for their internet shopping needs.

For sure, as seen by the way that it is the world's biggest web-based retailer and has
consistently been the market chief in the business regions in which it works, this system has
paid off pleasantly. Notwithstanding, it ought to be accentuated that cost authority can be
dependent upon the pattern of consistent, predictable losses, and that intends that after the
"easy pickins" has been culled, undertakings executing this approach might find themselves
unfit to support development or improve benefit.
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Competitive Advantage and Scope

Proceeding with the subject, Amazon's overall business system can be made sense of
utilizing The Ansoff framework, which is portrayed graphically in the image above. Amazon is
in the Overall Cost Leadership quadrant, and understanding its general methodology
requires a grip of its unrelenting spotlight on costs.

Amazon's particular measures in quest for this system incorporate steep limits for customary
individuals through the Amazon Prime program, guaranteeing opportune and, surprisingly,
expedited service and, on occasion, deferring transporting charges, passing on the
advantages of staying away from state assessments to clients, accordingly bringing down the
cost considerably further, and a general methodology in light of making the client experience
as lovely as could be expected.

Beside that, Amazon's technique is driven by its wellsprings of upper hand, which remember
a concentration for innovation, understanding the advantages of economies of scale, and
using the effectiveness from cooperative energies between its outside drivers and inside
assets. Amazon likewise utilize Big Data Analytics to plan customer conduct. For sure, the
company has embraced Big Data so much that it is presently ready to promote it as a
different help offering.

Anybody who has bought on Amazon has gone over a rundown of recommended items in
light of their perusing history and the planning of past buys with expected future buys.

Subsequently, Amazon can detect and guess what clients want and change its tasks likewise.
Amazon, as indicated all through this paper, utilizes innovation, which is obvious given that it
is a web based firm.
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Nonetheless, on account of Amazon's overall expense authority and absence of item

separation, its plan of action has been imitated by "me-as well" contenders, bringing about
an estimating war that has left everybody scarred. Besides, in light of the fact that it focuses
on cost-cutting over item uniqueness, its items are accessible on different entrances too, and
it has no unique or interesting product offerings.

Beside that, Amazon doesn't convey items that take care of the longing for "guaranteed
delight," in which clients make incautious buys and are restless for fast outcomes. Aside from
its films and other computerized things, the organization's other product offerings don't fall
into the class of those that give clients this fulfillment.

Having said that, it is important that Amazon's present technique depends on

accommodation, with clients done visiting an actual book shop or trust that their buys will
show up after a timeframe, as it has presented same-day conveyance in numerous nations
and is in any event, exploring different avenues regarding the utilization of robots for close
immediate conveyance. Aside from that, its attention on non-retail product offerings like
cloud-based administrations demonstrates that it is handling both the issue of differentiation
and its overreliance on cost initiative.

Conclusion
Clients can purchase everything and all that is available to be purchased on Amazon's
entryway with simply a tick of the mouse, as per Amazon's advocated "a single tick" selling.
Amazon's plan of action gives off an impression of being "clicking" with its clients, in light of
the rate at which it is developing. Having expressed that, Amazon's prompt need is to hold
its present development rates and force.

Moreover, the organization has not created benefits in a few of the quarters in the course of
the most recent three years, which is disturbing. One probably justification behind this is all
there is to it extreme spotlight on cost administration, which suggests its main concern is
being affected in the "rush to the base."

At last, Amazon should carry out a Glocal methodology in its worldwide business sectors,
consolidating its worldwide plan of action with its nearby conveyance and coordinated
operations inventory network. This would bring about a globalized monetary worth chain
where anybody, anyplace, can purchase items whenever.

To sum up, Amazon's future shows up brilliant, and there is not an obvious explanation for
why it can't keep up with its market authority gave it keeps on zeroing in on its center
abilities while additionally growing its worldwide worth chain.
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