Essay MBA633: Real-world Business Analytics and Management – Report on Digital Technologies – Management Assignment Help

Assignment Task:

Your Task Group Component:

Analyze a report on digital technologies. Discuss the finding and present insights to the class. Individual Component: Individually summarise the learnings in a brief report.

Background: In 2013 Deloitte produced a report on digital disruption. The report looked at how businesses were responding to the digital age. The basic lesson from the report was that the sooner businesses responded and adopted new technologies and methodologies, the better off they would be in the future. The report divided business types into quadrants (see figure below). Companies that were likely to experience digital disruption within 3 years of the study were said to be on a “short fuse”, while those who were likely to have the same experience over a longer time frame were said to be on a “long fuse”. Similarly, companies expecting to see 15 to 50% change in their business metrics were said to be set for a “big bang” (large impact) while others below 15%, were set for a “small bang” (small impact). For example, Retail, ICT and media are in the “short fuse, big bang” quadrant expecting a lot of digital disruption soon, whereas Education is in the “long fuse, big bang” quadrant, expecting a lot of digital disruption over a longer time than retail, etc. 

Part A As a group, 

• Discuss the findings on page 4 to 7 of the report. 

• Summarise the content in your own words. 

• Create notes for the presentation (one for each industry shown on page 6 & 7). As individuals, 

• Write dot points on this section in your own words (100 words, 5 marks) 

Part B The four companies chosen in the report are 

• Telstra 

• Australian Super 

• UBank 

• Westfield A “disruptor”, start-up company The Search Party is also mentioned if you would like to discuss that. 

As a group, 

• Your group will be allocated one of the companies or disruptor listed above – describe in your own words the case for digital (business problem), learnings & future plans of that company 

• Create notes on this section. 

As individuals, 

• Write dot points in your own words on the company or disruptor discussed (100 words, 5 marks). 

Part C As a group, 

• Read the summary of how organisations can prepare for action, i.e. recommendations on pages 26-27. 

• Provide a critique of this section, i.e. how useful/accurate do you think these recommendations and insights are? Could companies act on this advice? 

• Create notes on this section. 

As individuals, 

• Write dot points in your own words on the company recommendations discussed (100 words, 2 marks). 

Part D: As a group, 

• Discuss ways in which the visualizations and summary statistics in the tables could be improved. 

• Create notes on this section. 

As individuals, 

• Write dot points in your own words on ways in which the visualizations and summary statistics in the tables could be improved (200 words, 5 marks).