Essay Assignment
Instructions
In this final assignment, you will develop a paper that reviews some of the main topics covered in the course. Compose an essay to address the elements listed below.
• Identify the components of an information system (IS) using the five-component framework, and provide a brief summary of each.
• Explain Porter's five forces model.
• Management IS (MIS) incorporate software and hardware technologies to provide useful information for decision-making. Explain each of the following IS, and use at least one example in each to support your discussion:
o a collaboration information system,
o a database management system,
o a content management system,
o a knowledge management/expert system,
o a customer relationship management system,
o an enterprise resource planning system,
o a social media IS,
o a business intelligence/decision support system, and
o an enterprise IS.
• Identify and discuss one technical and one human safeguard to protect against IS security threats.
• There are several processes that can be used to develop IS and applications such as systems development life cycle (SDLC) and scrum (agile development). Provide a brief description of SDLC and scrum, and then discuss at least one similarity and one difference between SDLC and scrum
• Sum up your paper by discussing the importance of MIS.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.