Milestone 2: Research Results and Draft 2 SubmissionIn your role as an employee at a medium-to-large aviation-related business, it's time to drill down to the specifics for two of the information systems you selected. As you research and compose your data, remember that you are in a mid-to-upper level management position and have significant decision-making influence with your company.

DeliverableMilestone 2 - Review the five information systems you selected in Milestone 1 and choose two for further research. The goal of Milestone 2 is for you to submit a scholarly document with data obtained from in-depth research on two of the five topics that you chose (you will research the other three in Modules 7 and 8). The data that you submit in Module 5 should correspond to the following:

Document: Open the Research Project document that you worked on previously. At this time, save the document, but rename the file by changing the number of the milestone 1 to 2. 

Content: Your Milestone 2 document should provide details of how various departments such as Human Resources, Information Technology, Maintenance, Marketing, Operations, Reservations, and Sales at a medium-to-large scale aviation-related enterprise could benefit from the utilization of some of the MIS technologies that you are studying in this course. Distinguishing how the two information systems will benefit your company, proceed by providing the details and examples of applications and solutions offered by retail vendors. Describe the framework for each solution that the internal staff of your company might develop and implement as well as giving an account of the strengths, weaknesses, and cost considerations for those solutions. Finally, identify and describe how a solution can provide a competitive advantage, influence strategy, affect organizational performance and increase operational efficiency. Unless you are a subject matter expert on the topic, based on your degrees, certifications or âon the job training,â do not submit data obtained only from personal experience.

Sources: Your research should now include a minimum of two primary reference sources outside of the course textbook. The ERAU Hunt Library is an excellent source of reference materials. You can review a discussion regarding primary sources in Academic Resources. Your paper will be screened by Turnitin for citation issues. This modules submission will not be added to Turnitin's database until Module 8. 

 Warning, you cannot use Wikipedia as a resource, but you may be able to use the references at the end of Wikipedia articles as they sometimes contain scholarly articles.Course Hero is another source that is off-limits as a primary source.

Format: The minimum requirement Milestone 2 is four full pages of double-spaced text (not including title, abstract, conclusion, and reference table pages). Be sure to use current APA Style. Cite and reference any data that you have "borrowed" from a reference source. This requirement is for direct quotes or something that you may have paraphrased. Access Course Specific APA Style Instructions and Guidance for specific tips on how to correctly format citations and reference data.

Writing Mechanics: Your composition needs to be grammatically sound and free of spelling errors. Using terminology from the reference sources will enhance your grade.

At the end of this module's week, submit your draft for the Milestone 2 of your research project. Save a copy of your work and name your document using your last name, first initial, and then the name of the milestone assignment (do not use any special characters in the documents name). Your instructor will grade your submission using the Module 5 Research Project Milestone 2 Rubric. Once you receive the instructor's evaluation and feedback, correct any notated errors (if necessary), and resave the document adding "Rev 1" to the file name (i.e. Jones E Milestone 2 Rev 1.docx). Resaving the modified document with a "revision" filename will assist you in avoiding confusion and submitting corrected data in the later modules. 

The grade awarded for this milestone is based on the submission of the corrected (if necessary) Milestone 1 document with four full pages of data in the body of the text and the proper use of current APA Style in the document.

 

Future DeliverablesReview the instructions for future deliverables on the Research Project: Milestones Guide and Resources page for details.

 

QuestionsThroughout the different stages of working on your research paper, use the Research Project Discussion to ask questions and share information that may help your fellow peers. This is mainly a peer to class and instructor to class forum. Side discussions are welcome as long as you are aware the entire class may be observing. Your instructor will check the discussion to ensure the questions being asked are answered accurately or to clarify statements. 

 

 

 

For Milestone 2, review the five Information Systems you selected while working on Milestone 1 and then choose two for further research. You will research the other three topics in later modules. Use a minimum of two primary reference sources outside of the course textbook. As you do your research, keep up the Reference page of your document and make notes for the Conclusion page of your document. The minimum writing requirement for this milestone is four full pages of double-spaced text (not including Title, Abstract, Conclusion, and Reference pages). Use Turnitin to screen for citation and plagiarism issues; this submission does not go into the main repository.

To begin, open the Milestone 1 working copy document that you saved in Module 3. Before you begin composing the body of text, re-save the template document for Milestone 2. Rename the file name by changing the milestone number from 1 to 2.

 

Attachments:

• 1501132363-Topic Selections.docx