Assignment 1-
In the first assignment you need to write a project brief of about 1000 words, assuming it is for a senior manager of an organisation you choose from the list below:
Choose one out of the four organisations below:
1) Goodlife Health Clubs,
2) United Nations,
3) Stan, or
4) World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
Assume that the chosen organisation has contracted you to develop a dashboard for them.
Provide a project brief to the organisation including the following points where each point is worth 15% of the mark (6*15=90% in total; remaining 10% see marking criteria below):
1) What are the benefits that a dashboard can bring in general (be as specific as you can to that organisation's business needs)
2) Initial thoughts on which data should be included (including internal and external data)
3) Potential challenges in implementing the dashboard (eg: data quality, data availability)
4) Suggested audience for the dashboard (eg: management, all staff, partners and suppliers)
5) Planned method for implementing, including who needs to be involved
6) Sample dashboard from another organisation
Assignment 2-
This is a group assignment to be done in pairs. (External students may do the assignment individually)
The second assignment consists of two activities and relates to the organisation you have chosen for Assignment 1.If your partner had a different organisation in Assignment 1 then this is fine:
1) Practical activity: submission of a working dashboard. Create the design of a dashboard using one of the tools shown in the practicals (Microsoft PowerBI or Tableau). You should submit the dashboard by saving the dashboard as a file (*.pbix or *.twbx) and submit that file with your report (see below). Also include a screenshot in the report. Further you need to add a description of what it contains and how someone can interact with it. Make sure that you use at least one of the new types of visualisations (not just charts). Note that you should focus on externally available data and the data can be different to what you have mentioned in Assignment 1.
2) Written activity (50% of mark): explain the approach taken in deciding what to put into the dashboard to demonstrate your understanding of the business's need and how often the data will need to be changed (there will always be more data available).
Outline the challenges in developing the dashboard. Provide advice on (a) how the organisation would benefit from more BIA and (b) specific recommendations on what the organisation could do to make implementation easier (eg: data quality, governance of classifications, etc) - refer to BIA lifecycle. For the written component, create a report in a similar format to the first assignment addressing the points above.
Scope
You can choose to cover all areas of the organisation or focus on particular field of operation (eg: marketing, HR, manufacturing, environment sustainability, public reputation). If you are doing a degree in that area, you might find that useful.
For example: Apple Inc
One of Apple's strengths is being able to manufacturing and deliver to millions of customers globally. A threat to that may be worker injury, equipment breaking down or unreliable distribution. Which groups/users in Apple would want data to deal with those issues - what data would they need? In what form?
A company that needs to do a better job of recruiting the right staff - the dashboard then would be for HR managers.
Building a dashboard for Goodlife Health Clubs
In this assignment we are required to build a dashboard for Goodlife Health Clubs which we had chosen in assignment 1 and we also have to discuss the others key strategies and structures, recommendations etc which is all written in assignment guide that i have uploaded here and the assignment template is also included here, thanks.
2000 words
8 references harvard.