Each student will perform an individual organizational analysis of a company of his/her choosing. If you choose to focus your paper on a specific division or geographic region of the firm, please make sure to emphasize this. However, it might be easier to find information on the general company rather than on specific sub units of the company.
Your final project is the creation of an information technology strategic plan (ITSP). This plan is broken up into three milestone assignments that you will be working on throughout the course: an organizational profile (the focus of this assignment), an IT department SWOT analysis, and a document of strategic IT initiatives based on a case study that you will select below. These assignments should be tackled from the perspective that you are your department’s IT director.
(a) Use the appropriate diagrams and summary tables to discuss briefly the behavior of the excess returns on Bank of America and the market index (e.g., showing the time series of the excess returns of Bank of America and the market index in a unique graph, presenting histograms, scatter plots and summary statistics of the two excess returns).
Using at least 4 business models, critically examine Air Malta`s current strategic position in the market and conclude with the key opportunities and threats facing the airline over the next 3-5 years.
Critically appraise the difference between situational leadership versus traits approach or skills and style approaches to leadership providing examples of strengths and weaknesses
