Information Management
Assessment
General Instructions
Your paper must have a clear structure and must include:
• Cover page (an example is available to you in Induction/Unit 4)
• Abstract (no more than 150 words in a single paragraph)
• Table of contents (Table of tables/figures if necessary)
• A subsection for each of the five questions of the assessment – no more than 4500 words in
total
• References (or Bibliography) – at Master level you must use in-text citations to support your
arguments and any work cited must appear in the References list at the end of the work
Please ask any questions about the interim assignment and final assessment in the Forum.
Final Assessment – 4,500 words
For all questions below, “an organisation of your choice” ideally means “your organisation”,
an organisation you are currently working with/for, or have done so in the recent past.
This
will allow you to develop a much more critical analysis of internal processes and
characteristics of the organisation.
You are specifically asked NOT to discuss Apple, Google,
Amazon, Zara, Walmart, etc., unless you work there
Questions:
1. Conduct a literature review that critically discusses the concepts of
a. Information Governance
b. Information Security
and their importance in information management. Find and discuss relevant literature (peerreviewed literature is preferred, such as journal articles, conference articles, with books, white
papers, practitioner literature, and blog articles having a little less weight).
Weight: 20% of the final mark
2. After reading the Procter and Gamble case study (Unit 2), critically discuss the role and
responsibilities of senior leadership in information governance in the context of Procter and
Gamble
Weight: 15% of the final mark
3. In an organisation of your choice, perform a critical analysis of their use of information
systems and information technology (including cloud services and social media) and how this
impacts on staff development, effective flows of communication, and decision making in the
organisation
Weight: 20% of the final mark
4. Building on your analysis from question #3, critically evaluate possible improvements to the
organisation’s use of information systems with emphasis on staff development in line with
organisational goals, effective flows of communication, and decision making in the
organisation
Weight: 15% of the final mark
5. Critically analyse the importance of security in information management in your
organisation in particular
Weight: 15% of the final mark
The remaining 15% of the final mark will be dependent on the quality of Harvard referencing
and bibliography, as well as the general presentation of your paper.
