This HTML page provides directions for you to follow in preparing your analysis of your first business case (Case 1) for you to analyze. We have created a set of HTML templates that you should use to fill in the content of your analysis, organized as WWW pages per section of your write-up. You should first download the templates to your PC (or onto a diskette if working at the SBA Keck Center). Note that there are two different ways you can download the Case 1 HTML templates: either (a) as a single file, called CASE1-ALL.htm, which you must then decompose into individual HTML files using the file names indicated; or (b) download all of the following files listed here in this directory:
Next, please observe that the "home page" for your Case 1 analysis and write-up is called generic.htm. By viewing the source of this file in your favorite text editor or word processor, you will find URL links to the other named files which you have downloaded. By loading the file generic.htm into Netscape, you should be able to see, browse, and follow links to each of the HTML nodes in Case 1.
We are assuming that you have by now already read the assigned Generic Business Plan document which was used to create the Case 1 project templates. Its example business plan is intended to be suggestive as a guide. You are also assumed to have the designated Case Readings, including:
For example, the Creating a Virtual Classroom assigned reading describes a case for developing a virtual classroom, WWW-based teaching support materials, organizational and business issue discussion (e.g., how many students to accomodate per virtual class), and roles of emerging technologies (Internet-based audio and video) in the virtual classroom.
Your assignment is to develop a business plan for the development and use of a networked information system facilitating the 21st. Century USC SBA by adding your write-up into the Case 1 templates, and using the readings listed above and other materials you find relevant, including materials you find over the Internet, from materials you have collected while taking graduate courses at USC.
The 21st. Century SBA networked information system should be viewed as a learning support environment, community meeting place (for SBA students, faculty, staff, alumni, external funders, etc.), and resource sharing mall on the Internet For example, qualified SBA students may want to enroll and participate in graduate-level SBA courses that operate as "virtual classrooms." Each SBA virtual classroom can be assumed to possess all of the network and Internet conections, computing, and multi-media devices (e.g., networked audio and video) that you specify are necessary. Similarly, students in such classes may be assigned to read and analyze business cases that are posted on the WWW using common hypermedia information sharing structures, then publish their results as electronic hypermedia documents on the WWW. Other opportunities may exist through the SBA's adoption of concepts and technologies for:
Your target audience for reviewing your business plan should be people such as the SBA Dean, interested faculty and students, and other University administrators likely to be consulted regarding making a decision to implement the 21st Century SBA networked information system concept, based on your business plan and case analysis.
When you have completed, proofread, and checked the HTML layout of each of your write-ups, then transfer all of these Case 1 HTML files into a directory on your USC Unix account called (your-userid)/public_html/Case1, or (your-userid)/Case1 if your home directory can already be accessed using a WWW browser. You can check this via the URL, http://www-scf.usc.edu/~(your-userid)/Case1/generic.htm after you have placed your project files on your Unix account.
Be sure to first create this directory on your Unix account by using the command from your home directory, mkdir Case1 command, either using FTP or via your Unix command shell. Then you can FTP your Case 1 project files into this directory by running FTP from your PC to your account on the Unix system, changing to the Case 1 directory (for example, by entering the cd Case1 command to FTP, or an equivalent command), then transferring your files from your PC or diskette to the Case 1 directory.
Please be sure that the home page for your project can be found at ~(your-userid)/Case1/generic.htm
If FTP'ing files from your PC to Unix is new to you, be sure to meet with Gautam during his office hours to show you how to do it. Please do not wait until the night before your roject is due to try this for the first time!
Last, to expedite the grading cycle, please . You should be able print formatted version of your project files using a WWW browser, selecting the File on the top menu-bar, then selecting the Print, or else selecting the Print button on the browser menu bar.
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