Group Information (5 points)

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SFT 210 Assignment 4

Senior / Capstone Project Plan

Please complete the template below carefully, clearly, and completely. Your final assignment needs to show that you have carefully thought through, discussed, and researched what you have written below. You should speak to your family members, friends, and even professors in order to demonstrate that you have thought through and researched all of this well. This paper needs to show not just your own wisdom, but the wisdom of others as well. Note also that there is a focus on information throughout this paper.

Problem in Your Career Field (10 points)

In the section below, please describe a problem in your career field in this region that you would like to resolve through your Senior / Capstone Project. Please be specific, clear, and realistic. Note that you are saying that you can solve this problem through only your Senior / Capstone Project.

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Information Needed to Solve this Problem (25 points)

In the section below, please describe the information that you need in order to resolve this problem. For example, if you would like to create a simple app, which computer language would you need to learn? Which computer software would be involved? What information would you need from your chosen company? What accounting data might you need? Please be careful to write a full paragraph here, writing at least three kinds of information you would need, and to make sure that this is complete, detailed, and well-researched. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Steps to Obtain the Needed Information (20 points)

In the section below, please write at least five steps you could take to get the information you need to get this information. Note that companies need to trust you in order to give you information; these steps will include steps to try to develop trust with the company you have in mind.

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Challenges You Expect to Experience in Getting this Information (20 points)

Understandably, companies can often have a difficult time trusting other people (students included) with information. This is one challenge that you can expect to face. Please identify at least five other challenges that you can expect to face in getting the information you need.

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Solutions You Can Use to Overcome the Challenges in Getting this Information (20 points)

Please identify at least five solutions that you can use to overcome these challenges. Please be sure to provide at least one solution for each challenge that you noted above, and to connect the solution to the challenge.

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Deductions: Poorly researched information, showing lack of thought, depth, discussion: Up to -40 points

Submitting a literature review / a paper only slightly related to the information above: – 60 points