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Grading and Assignments

Your course grade will have three components:

• Class participation (30%)

• 4 assignments, due as we go along (30%)

• Project (40%)

(no final exam)

Class Participation. Your class participation will be graded based on the quality (and not quantity) of your comments. Quality means rigorous insightful comments that are succinctly delivered at an appropriate time. Delivering quality comments requires a careful preparation of the case and a thorough reading of the conceptual material for the day.

4 assignments. These are due on the following dates:

i) individual assignment. A 2-page analysis of the IBM case from session 3 in the course. Due September 10 at 12.30.

ii) individual assignment. Network assignment. TBA.  Due October 1 at 8am.

iii) group assignment. An in-class presentation on an “enterprise 2.0” tool. To be presented in class October 15.

iv) blog posts.  You will need to make 2 posts and 3 comments during the course. For the posts, you need to identify a press article or other reference from the “real world” that relate to the topics in the course (e.g. articles about how Google innovates, how President Obama makes decisions, how a company failed to collaborate). Provide the link and your analysis about how it relates. It should be succinct (one paragraph) and make one point. Ditto for comments on other students’ posts. See the Appendix for additional explanation and sample posts/comments.

Project. You will need to deliver a written report (max 5,000 words) based on an analysis of a managerial process pertaining to the topics in the course. You can do this in a team or by yourself (team is best). The project should ideally be a field study, which involves interviewing managers in an organization. Examples include:

• An analysis of a process (innovation, collaboration, decision making) in a company

• A critical review of an existing IT tool to promote collaboration among employees in a company (e.g., telepresence, LinkedIn)

• A design of a new IT tool to promote collaboration, analyzing how it will solve problems highlighted by the frameworks in the course

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