Assignment Question: The Assignment consists of two parts. For the submission deadline please refer to the course outline. Assignment Part 1: Report (60% of assignment mark) The first part consists of...

Assignment Question:
The Assignment consists of two parts. For the submission deadline please refer to the course outline.
Assignment Part 1: Report (60% of assignment mark)

The first part consists of a written project proposal of about 2000 words for a senior manager who asked you to create a dashboard that highlights business threats and/or opportunities and wants to present the dashboard to the board of the business.
To achieve maximum possible marks, the report should include the following (marks as shown):
1)    Audience (18): Discuss who are the end users of the dashboard, what type of BI users they are, what kind of responsibilities they have and what kind of decisions they have to make.
2)    Benefits (18): Describe in detail the benefits that a dashboard can bring to the organisation. Refer to monitoring possible threats (9) and opportunities (9) that the organisation is facing.
3)    Data (18): Discuss what potential and real data sources will be included that can help the end users in making informed decisions. Consider internal (data generated within the organisation) as well as external data (data available outside the organisation).

4)    Challenges (18): Address potential challenges in implementing the dashboard. Discuss the challenges from different perspectives such as data quality, data availability and others. You should discuss at least 3 challenges (6 for each).
5)    Methodology (18): Describe the planned method for implementing the dashboard including who is involved in the development. Follow the BI Lifecycle which is covered in one lecture.
6)    Presentation (10):
Referencing:
a.    Correct referencing (Harvard style)
b.    Quality of references
c.    Recent references