Discussion....No Plagiarism Pls
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discussions.docxD.Q1:
"Information System and Enterprise Systems"
· Identify the key factors that companies should consider when deciding whether to buy or to build their own information systems. Explain your rationale.
· Select one (1) type of the four (4) enterprise systems (i.e., supply chain management, customer relationship management, knowledge management systems, and enterprise resource planning), and speculate on the main issues that companies may encounter when implementing the type of enterprise system that you have selected. Next, suggest two or three (2 or 3) general techniques that companies could use in order to mitigate the issues in question.
D.Q2:
"Management Support Systems"
· Review the main management support systems discussed in Chapter 12 of the textbook. Next, select one (1) such system, and describe its key components, capabilities, and the overall manner in which an organization could benefit from it. Include one (1) example of such application and related benefit(s) to support your response.
· Recommend two (2) strategies for designing a successful management support system for an organization. Provide a rationale to support your response.
D.Q3
"Expert Systems and Intelligent Agents"
· Use the Internet or the Strayer Library to research articles on expert systems and companies which use them. Next, select two (2) companies that currently use expert systems. Then, discuss the fundamental advantages and disadvantages of using expert systems instead of human expertise within the companies that you have selected. Provide a rationale to support your response.
· Select one (1) of the four (4) categories of intelligent agents, as discussed in Chapter 13 of the textbook, that is currently available. Identify the main risks of using intelligent agents in the category that you have selected. Next, speculate on one (1) way which you would use in order to mitigate the risks in question. Justify your response.
D.Q4
Collecting Cost and Schedule Performance Metrics" Please respond to the following:
· From the first and second e-Activities, develop one (1) innovative way to track key project costs (e.g., labor hours) for a complex project that lasts for two (2) years and involves more than fifty (50) resources. Be as creative as you like, and provide one (1) example which shows the significant ways in which your innovation would work in a real-world situation.
· Using the hotel project from Week 6 discussion, determine the best practice for conducting an earned value analysis for the project in question. Provide a rationale for your determination and one (1) specific example which illustrates the significant ways in which the best practice in question would work in real life.
D.Q5
"Steering Future Performance Back Toward the Baseline" Please respond to the following:
· Determine the fundamental impact of not using a project management tool which clearly displays the effect of delays in delivering work packages, as required per your project schedule. Justify your response.
· From the e-Activity, determine at least two (2) best practices for steering future performance back toward the baseline. Provide at least two (2) specific examples of the utilization of such best practices to support your response.
D.Q6:
"Analyzing and Archiving" Please respond to the following:
· From the first and second e-Activities, select one (1) tool that you would use in order to analyze costs and schedules with regard to deliverables and / or work packages for a project of your choice. Specify the overall manner in which the utilization of the tool that you have selected would help to improve the management of your project. Justify your response.
· According to the text, archiving key project data is a must in project management. However, mistakes are bound to occur during such archiving. Determine one (1) mistake that project managers are most likely to make when archiving cost and schedule data for their projects. Next, propose one (1) strategy or best practice for limiting the mistake in question. Justify your response.
