The GLOCO business case serves as a generic framework for student projects.

GLOCO is a fictitious company facing business challenges and expecting to overcome them with information technology at a contained cost. The GLOCO case contains a list of business problems that can be solved by applying information technology.  You choose a topic out of this list. Each topic is framed as GLOCO’s Request for Proposal (RFP) – a typical way companies solicit IT solution bids in the technology services market.  Student teams act as IT suppliers responding to the customer's RFP request.

Instead of GLOCO, students may choose other business clients, subject to professor’s approval.

A topic proposal has to:

• Introduce the client company, and your team as an information technology vendor.
• State a business goal or a problem to be solved. For example, enable a new product or service, automate a business process, produce new information for better decision-making, or increase customer satisfaction.
• Offer a technology solution and explain how the technology will be implemented.
• Provide parameters to measure success.
• Refer to IT research, industry literature, and academic sources.