BS713 L7 Strategies for the Digital Economy Assessment Brief 2026 | ULaw

BS713 L7 SDE ASSESSMENT BRIEF

Module Title: Strategies for the Digital Economy

Level: Postgraduate (Level 7)

Key Details and Requirements Learning Outcomes:

Upon completing this assignment, you will be able to:

1.Assess digital business strategies for driving innovation and change within client organisations.
2.Develop a comprehensive digital strategy for an organisation, demonstrating how it addresses current market challenges and opportunities.
3.Design a project plan incorporating strategic performance indicators to evaluate the success of the proposed strategy.
4.Apply process analysis techniques to assess current and future organisational workflows, supporting the implementation of the proposed digital strategy.
5.Identify and recommend suitable digital technologies such as Big Data, IoT, Blockchain, and marketing platforms that align with the organisation’s strategic objectives.

Assessment details: Individual written report, 100% (2,500 words).

Referencing: Students are expected to use Harvard Referencing throughout their assignments where required. Please follow the Harvard Referencing Handbook for all your assignments at the ULBS.

Submission Method: Turnitin - Your work will be put through Turnitin. All submissions will be electronically checked for plagiarism and the use of AI software.

You have the option to upload your work ahead of the deadline, more than once. ULBS will be reviewing your last submission only. You can only upload one file. For example if your work contains a word document and power point slides/Excel spreadsheet you will need to copy your slides/spreadsheet into the word document.

ULBS Assessment Office Contact Details

The ULBS Assessment Office are here to help should you have any non-academic questions related to your assessments. You can contact them at AssessmentOffice@law.ac.uk

Note: Keep in mind that self-plagiarism (when you reuse your own specific wording and ideas from work that you have previously submitted without referencing yourself) is also a form of plagiarism and is not allowed.

ASSIGNMENT DETAILS

Part A: Develop or Evalute a Strategy for an Organisation Using a Chosen Theme

Select an organisation of your choice and develop or evaluate a strategy that will enable it to succeed in the digital economy. The strategy should focus on driving innovation within the organisation through one of the following themes:

• Rapid application development environments
• Digital media and marketing technologies
• Big Data
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Blockchain technologies

This task involves applying your chosen theme to the organisation to create a strategy that addresses its key challenges, improves operations, and enhances competitiveness. You should evaluate the organisation's current position in the digital landscape and demonstrate how your developed strategy can promote innovation and provide a competitive edge.

Part B: Implementation Plan for Strategic Advantage

Building on the strategy you have developed in Part A, create an implementation plan that outlines how the selected theme and relevant digital technologies will be deployed to create strategic advantages for the organisation through change.

FURTHER DETAIL ON REQUIREMENTS

A.Critical evaluation of current status
Critically evaluate a strategy for an organisation of your choice - that enables it to succeed in the digital economy, through innovation, focusing on one of the themes mentioned above.
a.Identify the key issues facing the organisation about the chosen theme – by analysing its current situation.
b.Identify which areas within the selected theme you are suggesting should be improved.
c.Justify why you have chosen these particular areas for improvement and how they are critical to the success of the strategy for the selected theme.
B.Recommendation and implementation plan
Make recommendations for the selected theme that leverages relevant digital technologies to gain strategic advantage, for your chosen organisation. Create an implementation plan for your recommendations on your chosen theme.
a.Create an appropriate project plan to implement the selected strategy.
b.Identify the key performance measures to monitor the strategy's success
c.Identify the key processes to be fulfilled, to ensure the success of the implementation plan.
d.Identify and discuss the importance of the appropriate relevant digital technologies needed - to ensure the success of the selected strategy.

Please refer to the marking criteria (below) for a breakdown of how the tasks will be marked.

BS713 L7 SDE Assessment Criteria