Week9ProjectAssignment.docx

Project Assignment Overview

For the duration of this course you will be working on the Project Assignment. Each week you will learn new things that you can relate and apply to this project. Each week you should have updates to add to the project assignment. By the end of the course your project will be completed and will apply what you have learned from each module.

Background

You work for a local hospital in the Process Improvement office as a business analyst. You have been asked to work on a new process improvement initiative.  Healthcare practitioners are reporting that when seeking information, they have unmet needs. They are also reporting that the information they do find is not of great quality. Lastly the healthcare practitioners are unsure how to present the found information in a way that is easy to understand.   

Week 9:  Evaluating Search Outcomes & Presenting the findings  

Tasks  

1. Include your notes from the weekly material as it applies to this assignment. 

2. Think about how this applies to your organization and the recommendations you might have on this topic, put that into your notes. 

3. Create a presentation to your organization using PowerPoint or Sway. In the presentation, you need to begin with the problem statement; Healthcare workers have unmet information needs. Then go about educating your organization on information seeking, be sure to include information from each of the areas you covered in this course. You need to then present the ‘recommendations’ to your organization on how – based on your learning – you would fix or at least improve upon the problem.  

4. The instructor will check your one note for progress and add comments as needed.