manangement report
Plz find attached file for assignment requirement. You may also want to consider Market Structure, Industry Analysis, Outsourcing Motivations, Costs, Benefits and Risks, Theoretical Foundations for Outsourcing, and Due Diligence and Discovery in this report.
Type: Individual Assignment
Objectives Addressed: 1, 2, 3 & 4
Graduate Attributes: A.1, A.2, A.3, B.6, E.1 and F.4
Marks: 35 marks (35%)
Submission Required: Management Report
Softcopy Submission: UTS Online Dropbox 6.00pm Tuesday 3rd October 2017
Instructions
The IT installation at MCVR Inc has been run under a full outsourcing arrangement for the
past ten (10) years. Over the last year there have been some significant problems with the
both the outsourced IT operations and a lack of innovative in IT services offered by the service
provider. As it is now time to renegotiate the next outsourcing contract, the MCVR Board of
Directors is considering the following options:
1. Stay with the current outsource service provider.
2. Find a new outsource service provider.
3. A selective outsourcing arrangement with a mix of in-house and outsourced IT.
As the Board has often just thought of outsourcing as “somebody else running IT for us” they
will not make any decision to proceed until these options have been thoroughly researched.
It is for this reason the Board wishes to get a deeper understanding of the above three (3)
options, before determining which avenue to pursue.
You have been given the task to produce a research report for the Board of Directors on the
above options. The report must include descriptive information, advantages and
disadvantages and any issues identified for each of the options listed above.
It is envisaged that your submission will be between 3000 words +/- 10% words in length
(excluding references). Care should be taken to follow the guidelines presented below,
particularly with regard to style of presentation and referencing of sources. Your submission
should have at least 12 unique sources of in-text references from journals and textbooks.
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Assessment
Your submission will be assessed according to the Marking Scheme below.
Appropriate style 3 marks
Report development and structure 3 marks
Relevance of content 6 marks
Development of key ideas and concepts 9 marks
Formulation of discussion 9 marks
Amount of research evident in content 5 marks
Non Submission 0 marks
Late assignments will be deducted 10% per day late, more than seven days late the assignment will
receive zero. Special consideration, for late submission, must be arranged beforehand with the
Subject Coordinator.
Submission Guidelines
The management report must have a cover page stating the student’s name and number,
subject name and number, the selected topic and the due date. On a separate page
following, there should be an executive summary (see the template in UTS Online). This
should be followed by a table of contents, the report body and the conclusions /
recommendations section.
The use of headings and sub-headings is encouraged to help structure the report. Page
headers and footers should be used and pages must be numbered.
The report body should allow margins of three (3) centimetres for comments and use one line
spacing. Diagrams and tables, if used, must explained in the text numbered, titled and, if
copied from literature, the source should be quoted immediately underneath.
All material derived from other works must be acknowledged. If using material derived
from other sources the report must have:
1. A reference list of all works included the management report. This should list the
books and articles, which have been quoted or used in the management report; they
should be arranged alphabetically by author’s surname with anonymous works listed
first.
2. The acknowledgement of all evidence and sources of information using the Harvard
Referencing System.
3. If diagrams and tables are used to explain the text they should be numbered, titled
and, if copied from literature, the source should be quoted immediately underneath
