Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc. / Information Systems
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A 5 page paper offering an overview of Ben & Jerry's Homemade ice cream company. Special emphasis is given to the company's information systems. A SWOT analysis is provided. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
Filename: Benjerry.wps

Benefits and Risks of End User Computing
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This 3 page paper examines risks and benefits of end user computing. A bit of history of the evolution of end user computing is included in this paper that examines effective tools to use to minimize risk. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: SA413MIS.rtf

Biltrite Bicycles
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This is a 5 page paper which examines the strengths and weaknesses of the financial management controls of a business known as Biltrite Bicycles. There is no bibliography.
Filename: JHBilt.rtf

Black Creek Furniture Case Study
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This 12 page paper looks at a case supplied by the student; Black Creek Furniture. The company is successful, but old fashioned and would benefit from adopting a new IT strategy. The paper examines the company, the customers and the current systems and makes recommendations for the adoption of a web enabled Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. The bibliography cites 7 sources.
Filename: TEblackcreek.rtf

BLM Case Study
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This 4 page paper looks at the failure of the IT project at the bureau of land management (BLM). The writer answers set questions that consider who and why the project failed and what, if any, project management models r tools would have helped prevent or overcome the problems identified. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
Filename: TEblmcase.rtf

Bringing IT to Home Sweet Home Realty
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A 14 page paper providing a proposal for automating a small real estate agency. Home Sweet Home (HSH) has been a small business for years, but the current owner wants to expand its reach. There are seven employees and a single, ancient 386 PC. This paper is written from the perspective of a consultancy reporting on a feasibility study. It recommends that HSH put all its properties online, add a server and equip all personnel with PCs, at a total cost of less than $22,000. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: KShomeSH.wps

Broadcast Media in Mexico.
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(10pp) Tensions between civic-political and socioeconomic-interest-based organizing have created fertile terrain for state initiatives to keep challengers from civil society off balance, correspondingly this also puts a strain on media, and non-bias reporting. Historically as well as currently, the more sophisticated government response has been to offer incentives to movements to sacrifice their civic agendas in favor of their social agendas. At the same time, each radical reform movement was cut short by government official repression, which in turn explains the Costa Grande's parallel cycles of armed peasant resistance from the Partido de los Pobres in the 1960s to today's Ejercito Popular Revolucionario. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: BBmexmed.doc

BUCKMAN LABORATORIES AND K’NETIX – A CASE STUDY
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This 4-page paper is based on a Harvard Business Review case study of Buckman's technical knowledge-sharing ssytem called "K'Netix." Questions answered include the effectiveness of the system, how such effectiveness can be measured, as well as general lessons the case study provided in implementing this system.
Filename: MTbuckma.rtf

Building an Effective Technology Support Team
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This 5 page paper discusses some of the factors that are involved in building an effective IT support team, as well as problems that can arise from a personality clash. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: HVBildIT.rtf