Potential Problems/Opportunities for the Course Project
The Course Project’s focus should be on identifying a business problem or opportunity and proposing a technology solution. You  will need to identify a real-life business that you are familiar with. The business must have a problem or an opportunity that can make use of an information technology solution. The following is a list of potential problems and opportunities around which you may want to focus your project.
Lack of competitiveness or profitability
Inefficient processes
Slow product development

Obsolete or outdated IT organization and technologies
Poor corporate communications
 Ongoing personnel issues
Take advantage of a new technology
Use technology to support or automate manual processes
Use technology to improve decision making
Potential Technology Solution Categories
For this Course Project, you will need to select a technology category that will serve as a solution for the problem or opportunity you have identified for the selected business.
For the purposes of this project, it is important to differentiate between a technology solution category (or technology category) and a specific vendor or product. The technology category is a broad area, such as CRM system or web analytics. A vendor/product is a specific company or product, such as Salesforce, Oracle, Google Analytics, Omnture, and so forth.

The technology solution category selected for this project is acceptable if 
that technology is available from more than one vendor/company; or 
There exists at least one other technology that can be used as an alternative solution.
Although the list of technology categories that you can choose for your Course Project is vast, the list below gives some suggestions you may want to consider. 
Application software such as the following  
Accounting/financial management system
Appointment scheduling system

Registration system for patients or students
Software for managing a specific type of business

Asset tracking system
Augmented reality

Business analytics

Business intelligence

Cloud-based services (software, hardware, storage, etc)
Collaboration technologies
Communication technologies
CRM system
Customer records system
Database system or application
eBusiness
eCommerce
Electronic document management system

Electronic medical records system

ERP system
Global information system
Group decision support system
HRM system
Cyber security solutions
Internet analytics implementation (web analytics, social media analytics, video analytics, etc.)
Internet of things
Inventory management system
Knowledge management system
mCommerce
Network technologies
Project management system/software 
RFID system
SCM system

Social media applications for business

Speech-to-text system/voice recognition system 
Technologies to facilitate telecommuting
Text-to-speech system
Wireless sensor network
OTHER (with approval of the professor)
Course Project Part 1: The Proposal
Guidelines
The proposal gives a high-level overview of the project. It gives information about the organization we are doing the project for, a description of the problem/opportunity, and an overview of the technology solution category. The proposal must be submitted and feedback received from the professor before doing the rest of the project. The proposal should be one and a half to two pages (not including cover page, table of contents, bibliography and appendices), double spaced, using Times New Roman font, 12-point, using 1 inch margins, and headings for the paper format requirements.
The proposal should consist of the following:
Cover page
Table of contents
Brief company background
Business problems or opportunities overview
Briefly describe the problem or opportunity that you will be providing a technology solution for

Explain how this problem/opportunity affects the organization

Overview of technology solution category

Provide a brief overview of the technology solution category, and explain how it fits the needs of the organization.
NOTE: Please see the definition of technology solution category in the section titled Potential Technology Solution Categories. It is highly recommended that you use one of the technologies listed in that section.
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