
3 Attempts Allowed
Brief: The Final Project Report demonstrates the capstone knowledge and practical skills of digital system managers’ organisational and communication abilities. It will combine and reflect on your learning journey, including lessons learned and progress outputs, particularly from Modules 7 to 11. You will incorporate feedback and peer-review of your first digital strategy report (Assessment 2) to systematically and strategically refine your strategy and recommendations.
Submission Requirements
Your report should be individually written using Microsoft Word document. Submit both .PDF and .DOC files.
Background
This final report showcases your end-to-end strategic-management capability:
- Modules 2 → 6 Vision, innovation roadmap, value-chain, portfolio, investment logic.
- Modules 7 → 11 Classification, justification, sourcing, governance, capability journey.
You will integrate tutor feedback from Assignments 1 & 2 and artefacts produced in Workshops 7 → 11 into a board-ready document for your case-study organisation.
Task
As a Digital Systems Manager, you are required to write a Business Report to fully describe your project proposal that has been refined from your course contents, extended knowledge from readings, and incorporated feedback/comments from the previous two assignments (and the case study selected).
Your report should be targeted at the Board of Directors or Executive Management group and be formatted as a formal business report, which must be appropriate for a Senior Management audience.
- The key interest of the audience is to assess how your proposed digital transformation extends, solves issues, and provides opportunities for the organisation in the case study.
The report will:
- Include the most recent academic and industry literature on digital transformation strategies.
- Apply relevant theories to explain the main issues supported by relevant citations.
- Use charts, diagrams and tables to help explain your argument.
- Cover main issues in the study, explaining the impacts of digital transformation on organisational aspects such as performance, quality of products and services, and customer satisfaction.
Audience
Board of Directors / Executive Leadership. Write in clear business language, evidence-based, with actionable recommendations.
Format
Executive Summary
- Introduction and background to justify the importance of the proposed project within the context of the selected case study.
- Discuss the business context, the problem and the main aims of the digital transformation project (i.e. your value proposition)
| Component | Word-guide | Artefacts to embed* | Key links to modules (M) |
| Executive Summary | 150 | — | Snapshot of vision & ROI |
| 1 Context & Value Proposition | 250 | Value-Proposition Canvas | M2 (Market & alignment) |
| 2 Strategic Evaluation | 250 | Five-Forces overlay or SWOT + Risk/Reward plot | M5 & M8 |
| 3 Digital-Capability Journey | 250 | Capability-Journey Map | M11 |
| 4 Portfolio & Investment Plan | 300 | Portfolio Matrix (M7) + Value/ DollarsMatrix (M8) | M7 – M8 |
| 5 Sourcing & Governance Framework | 250 | Sourcing Matrix (M10) + CIO Agenda Table | M9 – M10 |
| 6 Benefits, KPI & Roadmap | 200 | KPI table + 24-month timeline (from Roadmap) | M3-4 & M8 |
| Conclusions & Recommendations | 100 | — | Tie back to business goals |
| References | — | ≥ 15 quality sources (APA 7) |
Supporting files/exemplars
Sample_Assignment 3_7040IBA.pdfDownload Sample_Assignment 3_7040IBA.pdf
ENGIE Digital Strategy _Sample.docxDownload ENGIE Digital Strategy _Sample.docx (illustrative only)
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