Description

Saudi Electronic University
College of Administrative and Financial Sciences
E-commerce Department
Group Project
Student Name:
Student ID:
Course Title:
Introduction to E-Management
Course Code: ECOM 201
Academic Year/ Semester: 2021/2022Summer Term
Instructor Name:
Dr. Bader Nuwisser
Student Grade:
out of 10
CRN: 50223
Grade Level: Low/ Mid/ High
ECOM 201 Project
Overview
Suppose your group works as a virtual team in a Saudi company that deals with local and global
clients. The company main purpose is to provide digital marketing services and solutions. A task
has been given to you by the CEO. The task includes building a connection with a South African
brand that wants to open an office in AL Khobar, Eastern Province. The task is considered
completed when you propose a strategy to the international company representative and
receive their feedback.
Requirements
The group needs to be divided as follows: one team manager, one representative from the
international brand, one technical support expert, and one or two general members.
Write a reflection on your group work process in creating the team, choosing the tools, working
on the tasks and reporting the strategy to the client.
Reflection (due by Week 6)
[20 marks]
The reflection should be written after you establish a successful virtual team. The reflection
should describe the process of 4 main components of virtual management: team building,
tools, procedures, and task management. Please use these guidelines on how to do so:
1. Virtual Team: (5 marks)
In this section, you need to describe the workings of your virtual team.
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Name your team.
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Who are your team members, and what are their roles?
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What are the personal objectives for each member?
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What is the collective goal for your team?
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Refer to the four different stages of team building? Have you experienced these stages
(discuss)
2. Virtual Tool (5 marks)
In this section, you describe the process of choosing a tool for your virtual team.
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What virtual tool did you use to manage the tasks? (provide pictures)
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Describe the features this tool has (provide pictures).
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Why did you choose these tools? What are the other options?
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Suppose your budget was SAR 10k; how did you use that budget to get the best possible
tool?
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How frequently does the team meet? How long is each meeting? (provide photos of the
team meetings at different times)
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What are the meeting minutes? How have they been used effectively? (provide an
example of your team meeting minutes).
3. Virtual work dynamics (5 marks)
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How did you create a virtual office?
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What are the challenges that you faced in your work? (discuss from different roles’
perspectives).
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How did you utilize vacation time, holiday times?
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How did you divide the workload?
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What are the challenges that your team faced in communication? (discuss from
different roles’ perspectives).
4. Reports and presentations (5 marks)
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Provide an example of a proposed strategy that your team worked on to make the
marketing campaign successful for the international company.
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The report should be 300 words that describe the best practices of doing virtual
marketing in Saudi Arabia.
o The report should have an introduction, brief strategy, and conclusion.
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Include graphs and statistics to support your report.
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The international company representative in your team should provide his/her feedback
on the report (one or two comments)
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The rest of the team should address those comments.
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Conclude your reflection.
Useful links:
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http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/studentservices/documents/planning-and-preparingto-write-assignments.pdf
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APA reference system https://student.unsw.edu.au/apa
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About plagiarism http://wts.indiana.edu/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml
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About plagiarism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism
Guidelines for the assignment:
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This is a group project (4-5 students in each group), which is part of your course score.
It requires effort, collaboration and critical thinking.
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Use the given template below. One mark will be deducted if there is this template is
not used.
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Your assignment must be supported by evidence and resources. Otherwise, your
answer will not be valid.
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Use at least 3 different references from the SDL.
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Use font Times New Roman, Calibri or Arial.
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Use 1.5 or double line spacing with left Justify all paragraphs.
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Use the footer function to insert page number.
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Ensure that you follow the APA style in your project.
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Your project report length should be between 1500 to 2000 words.
Up to 20% of the total grade will be deducted for providing a poor structure of assignment.
Structure includes these elements paper style, free of spelling and grammar mistakes,
referencing and format.
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