Bahir Dar University

College of Business and Economics

Post graduate program
Management Science course

First Assignment - Individual project work (at least 30%)

General instruction:

1. Take one of the titles in the course (look for the course outline)
2. Take a case organization
3. Analyze whether the organization is applying the concept (the topic) you have chosen
4. What is the major problem they faced in using the concept?
5. Provide your recommendation

Possible Contents
1. Introduction........................................................................................................................................
2. Background........................................................................................................................................
2.1. Location..........................................................................................................................................
2.4. Core process/basic activities of the business..................................................................................
2.Vision, Mission and Values...................................................................................................................
Vision ...................................................................................................................................................
Mission..................................................................................................................................................
Values....................................................................................................................................................
3. Environmental Analysis (SWOT Analysis)..........................................................................................
3.1. Internal environment analysis.........................................................................................................
3.2. External Environment Analysis..................................................................................................
4. The major Challenges for using the selected title..............................................................................
5. Possible recommendations...................................................................................................................

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Second Assignment – Article Review (at least 20%)

Specifications for article review

Under this student are expected to critically review articles published on reputable journal. The
report should normally be between 500-600 words (two to three pages). The article should
normally be a scientific study on Management Science (or Operations Research) on business
activities based on empirical evidence (the article to be reviewed is attached as a separate
document).
Reviewing the article has got three-fold purposes;
 it helps students to understand modern concepts and principles of information technology
for decision making exploited by different researchers.
 Students can understand major researchable /problematic areas under the course and this
may give them an opportunity to come up with research problems related to Information
technology for decision making.
 The students will gain in depth understanding and experience on research methodologies
applied in the articles reviewed.

The review must reflect knowledge and understanding of relevant academic and professional
literature, academic discourse, debate and/or argument of scholars in the field. Students are not
expected to copy and paste from the article, rather can make their own syntheses, and perhaps
rephrase using their own language. The critics must be developed on the appropriateness of the
topic, Questions/problems the article is intending to answer/solve, basis of research design and
methods followed, relevance of theories in the literature, major finding of the study.

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