Managing Information Technology

where he stood and work out an alternative that he could support. Watkins did not try to force a recommendation on the committee ...

Case Study III-1 • Managing a Systems Development Project at Consumer and Industrial Products, Inc. 439 A few weeks after the st ...

and authorized the team to base the Initial Study Report on the development of a new system that they named the Payables Audit S ...

Case Study III-1 • Managing a Systems Development Project at Consumer and Industrial Products, Inc. 441 The major problem encoun ...

442 CASE STUDY III-2 A Make-or-Buy Decision at Baxter Manufacturing Company It is late Friday afternoon, and Kyle Baxter, presid ...

Case Study III-2 • A Make-or-Buy Decision at Baxter Manufacturing Company 443 EXHIBIT 2 The Stages of a Motor Housing Stamping T ...

minimal inventories of raw materials and parts. Rather than sending an order for a month’s parts at a time as they had in the pa ...

Case Study III-2 • A Make-or-Buy Decision at Baxter Manufacturing Company 445 change another five machines, and I have to go thr ...

Management Systems, Inc. (EMS). Moore had worked as an engineer with the company for 7 years and then took a leave for 2 years t ...

Case Study III-2 • A Make-or-Buy Decision at Baxter Manufacturing Company 447 He may or may not make the changes that you want, ...

additional systems to translate from one packaged system to the other packaged system. In addition there will be costs of traini ...

449 CASE STUDY III-3 ERP Purchase Decision at Benton Manufacturing Company, Inc. Benton Manufacturing Company, Inc., is a U.S. m ...

450 Part III • Acquiring Information Systems (^3) Ibid., pp. 122–3. orders from 18 days to a day and a half and cut the time req ...

Case Study III-3 • ERP Purchase Decision at Benton Manufacturing Company, Inc. 451 Vice President Human Resources S. R. Hamilton ...

distribution system. Better information would enable us to significantly reduce our finished goods inven- tory and at the same t ...

Case Study III-3 • ERP Purchase Decision at Benton Manufacturing Company, Inc. 453 Year 2001 Costs Benefits Net Benefits 20,000, ...

Recommendation Although they understand that there are legitimate concerns about the cost of an ERP and that there will be many ...

455 CASE STUDY III-4 The Kuali Financial System: An Open-Source Project The Kuali Financial System is an open-source enterprise ...

456 Part III • Acquiring Information Systems institutional business processes, the KFS is designed to meet the needs of any Carn ...

Case Study III-4 • The Kuali Financial System: An Open-Source Project 457 wonderful metaphor for administrative systems in a uni ...