Proposal Topic and Outline
Complete and submit the e-Commerce Proposal Outline.
This outline provides a space for you to choose your company and begin to shape your approach. In this outline, you are presenting your original thoughts and plan, which will most likely change and evolve as you work through the weekly topics of the course. If you have questions, you may ask those at the end of your outline. The answers to the items below can be brief, and bullet points can be used. Make sure the content is clear so comments can be provided if/as needed.
Required information:
- Your name and the name of the company that you are proposing the solution to (chosen from the list provided in the proposal assignment). If you plan to choose an alternate company, then you need to have the alternate approved by the professor before you can submit this outline. Because of this requirement, you must obtain approval by day two of Week 2, which requires you to plan and allow for up to 48 hours for a response from the professor to approve or deny your alternate company topic. The outline will not earn credit for an unapproved company topic.
- The overall summary of the business plan for the company of your choice. What does the company sell, and what differentiates this company from others?
- The specifics on what your solution will do for the company, i.e.: what you plan to solve and why the direction is important. What is the company missing that you plan to fulfill? Provide the relevant big-picture context to the problem you’re going to solve.
- Identify three current competitors and identify how your plan might be competitive.
- Brainstorm three questions you plan to answer in your proposal.
- Provide one valid scholarly source to support the direction of your idea for your e-Commerce solution.
- Optional: ask any additional questions you have for the professor.
This outline provides a space for you to choose your company and begin to shape your approach. In this outline, you are presenting your original thoughts and plan, which will most likely change and evolve as you work through the weekly topics of the course. If you have questions, you may ask those at the end of your outline. The answers to the items below can be brief, and bullet points can be used. Make sure the content is clear so comments can be provided if/as needed.
Plagiarism
You are expected to write primarily in your own voice, using paraphrase, summary, and synthesis techniques when integrating information from class and outside sources. Use an author’s exact words only when the language is especially vivid, unique, or needed for technical accuracy. Failure to do so may result in charges of academic dishonesty.
Overusing an author’s exact words, such as including block quotations to meet word counts, may lead your readers to conclude that you lack appropriate comprehension of the subject matter or that you are neither an original thinker nor a skillful writer.
