MSc SBIT Research Methods Unit - Project Proposal and Assessment Template June 2008
Student Number 123456 Cam Number Cam90909
This is a sample completed template, written by a student in the last cohort. I am sending it to you so that you may see what it is possible to write and get a feel for the sort of comments you will get can at the proposal stage (Q1-6) and later for all the questions.
I am doing this to add a bit of realism to what you see as examples and here you may well learn much more by looking at the errors made and what the tutor said then looking at what the student did about the feedback (unfortunately it was often nothing).
We at the University are often reluctant to give examples as many students try to use them as templates, fitting their answer by changing words in the example. This is not only lazy but a sure way to get into deep trouble because whatever you say at this stage you have to follow it through in the project and if you have no real understanding then it spells trouble.
You may have always been used to looking up answers up in books or on the Internet but here you cannot do that, you cannot look up a problem or a target or an actor in a book; you have to struggles with doing it yourself and the sooner you realises that and get started the better supported by the principles we have discussed over the last few weeks.
Be encouraged, it can be done if you are willing to struggles with the ideas. As Vince Lombardi said - "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."
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Provisional Project Title
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Server Virtualization in Data Centres
Q1a - Give an outline of the setting, topic area, presenting problem and a rationale for Strategic Business IT usage in its resolution (max 200 words)
References Workbook section 4.2 plus topical hints
Student Answer My word count is 166
An investment bank is leading other group entities into becoming "South East Asia's most valued universal bank". Its staff for grew from 1000 to 24,000 while is previous customer base grew from a few thousands into few hundred thousands.
IT has strategic roles to play in the company's pursuit of this vision by year 2010. As the leading entity, it is expected that all computing resources will be deployed from its data centre. While it has no immediate plan to shift data centre shortly, it is also faced with lack of physical space in its data centre due to its rapid growth.
This proposal is set out to explore "What list of options and considerations of these options that can be used by an IT Manager, leading an investment bank merger into a universal bank, can consider when lacking physical space to maximize computing resources within current physical floor space occupied by servers aged above 3 years o