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The overall purpose of the project activities in the M.Sc in E-business is to work with a problem chosen by the student him- or herself, which falls under the general objective of the programme and provides the student with basis for progress towards the thesis work.
The project activities thus provide an opportunity to prepare for the master thesis. Furthermore, the idea behind the 22,5 ECTS E-Business projects is to use them in a cumulative way, so that the student may, for instance, form a business idea in the first project, plan how to carry it out in the second project, and execute the plan in the third project.
It is important that the project activities during the 2nd and/or 3rd semester are used for information retrieval and work towards the identification of the thesis subject.
The technology discipline (covered by T-courses) include IT security, enterprise architecture, business intelligence, human computer interaction, and user-oriented interface design and systems including individual or organizational use of IT tools. However, a T-project is not necessarily limited to these subjects.
A project that meets the technology requirements may either include elements such as programming, interface design or database integration. They can also cover an analysis of strategic safety or specific user conditions, an account of business applications of new technologies (demonstrating an in-depth knowledge of the technical aspects), the analysis of computer interface usability, user experience, novel interface design and interaction etc.
In any case, it is important that the T-project has business relevance, broadly defined as per the overall E-Business programme. The report must thus include considerations of the business/organizational aspects of the problem, e.g. whether it would be valuable for a company to invest resources in the development and implementation of a certain technical solution.
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