Course Project

Course Project
Overview and current status of the company. This should include the following: Short (not more than 1 page) introduction to the paper the major players in the company’s industry and a brief historical review of the company.
What are the characteristics of the company? What are the company’s goals objectives and mission? What is its organizational structure and context: Is it centralized or decentralized? What is its size (number of employees sales volume) age technological sophistication business processes automation and leadership?
What strategies are currently employed by the company? What are its products and services? Who are the beneficiaries of the company products and services?
Discuss the company’s external opportunities (trends vacant niches demographics etc.). What does the industry look like? What are the economic data (population/demographics cost of living GDP etc.) that impact the organization?
Perform an analysis of the company’s telecommunications (includes both voice and data) function including goals and objectives of the telecommunications function alignment of telecommunications goals with the business goals and the criticality of telecommunications to the organization. Is telecommunications central to the organization’s business? Is it primarily a supporting function? Is the telecommunications function used for problem solving problem recognition or to open up new opportunities? What telecommunications equipment is employed? What vendors or sources are used and what services are used? What telecommunications problems does the company encounter? Does the company use telecommunications to its advantage or are they understaffed regarding a telecommunications manager and staff to support the technology? Are any telecommunications functions outsourced? Is there any business process design initiatives? Are there any telecommunications projects being planned or implemented? Is there a systemic approach to telecommunications projects?
Recommendations: Propose suggestions to management describing a project that uses telecommunications technology in an innovative way for competitive or strategic advantage. (What suggestions might you offer? Why might these suggestions be helpful? What would you recommend that the organization continue? What should they change? Would you make any changes to the mission objectives goals (or other inputs) the culture structure leadership; especially information systems/technology etc.?)
Summary and Conclusions: Provide a closing to your paper that ties back to the introduction and the goals and objectives of the company in using telecommunications to obtain a strategic advantage increase market share and improve profits.
Your Research Paper should be approximately 12 – 14 pages not including title page table of contents references appendix or exhibits. It is due by the end of Week 6. Submit your assignment to the Week 6 Course Project Dropbox located at the top of this page.(230 points)
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Guidelines and Best Practices
Papers should be approximately 12 – 14 pages not including title page table of contents references appendix or exhibits. The paper should be double-spaced and in Times New Roman 12-point font with 1 inch margins. Please refer toWriting the Research Paper: A Handbook 6th edition for guidelines when writing your report.The primary focus of your paper should be on how your company uses or could better use telecommunications features.Your paper should be formatted similar to the outline shown below.
Title page
Table of contents
Executive summary
Introduction
o Overview and current status of the company
o Characteristics of the company
Strategies of the company
Company strengths weaknesses opportunities and threats
Analysis of the company’s telecommunications
Recommendations
Conclusions
References
Exhibits or Appendices