Jim Watanabe was in his new car, driving down I-5
on his way to work. He dreaded the phone call he
knew he was going to have to make.
The original go-live date for a pilot implementation
of Petrie’s Electronics’s new customer relationship
management (CRM) system was July 31. That was only six weeks away, and Jim knew there was no way
they were going to be ready. The XRA CRM they were
licensing turned out to be a lot more complex than
they had thought. They were behind schedule in implementing it. Sanjay Agarwal, who was a member of
Jim’s team and who was in charge of systems integration for Petrie’s, wanted Jim to hire some consultants.with XRA experience to help with implementation.
So far, Jim had been able to stay under budget, but
missing his deadlines and hiring some consultants
would push him over his budget limit.
It didn’t help that John Smith, the head of marketing, kept submitting requests for changes to the original specifications for the customer loyalty program. As
specified in the project charter, the new system was supposed to track customer purchases, assign points for
cumulative purchases, and allow points to be redeemed
for “rewards” at local stores. The team had determined
that those rewards would take the form of dollars-off
coupons. Customers who enrolled in the program
would be given accounts that they could access from
Petrie’s website. When they signed on, they could check
their account activity to see how many points they had
accumulated. If they had earned enough points, they
were rewarded with a coupon. If they wanted to use the
coupon, they would have to print it out on their home
printers and bring it in to a store to use on a purchase.
The team had decided long ago that keeping everything
electronic saved Petrie’s the considerable costs of printing and mailing coupons to customers.
But now marketing had put in a change request that
would give customers a choice of having coupons
mailed to them automatically or printing them from
the website at home. This option, while nice for customers, added complexity to the XRA system implementation, and it added to the costs of operation. Jim
had also learned yesterday from the marketing representative on his team, Sally Fukuyama, that now Smith
wanted another change. Now he wanted customers to
be able to use the coupons for online purchases from
Petrie’s website. This change added a whole new layer
of complexity, affecting Petrie’s existing systems for
ordering online, in addition to altering yet again the
implementation of the XRA CRM.
As if that wasn’t enough, Carmen Sanchez was now
telling Jim that she would not be ready to let the team
pilot the system in her Irvine store. Carmen was saying her store would not be ready by the end of July.
Maybe that wouldn’t matter, since they were going to
miss the go-live date for the pilot. But Carmen was
hinting she would not be ready for months after that.
It seemed as if she didn’t want her store to be used for
the pilot at all. Jim didn’t understand it. But maybe he
should try to find another store to use as the pilot site.Jim was almost at his exit. Soon he would be at the
office, and he would have to call Ella Whinston and
tell her the status of the project. He would have to tell
her that they would miss the go-live date, but in a way
it didn’t matter since he didn’t have a pilot location to
go live at. In addition to going over schedule, he was
going to have to go over budget, too. He didn’t see any
way they would be ready for the pilot anytime close to
when they had scheduled, unless he hired the consultants Sanjay wanted. And he would have to stop the
latest change request filed by marketing. Even more
important, he would have to keep the rumored change
request, about using coupons for online purchases,
from being submitted in the first place.
Maybe, just maybe, if he could hire the consultants,
fight off the change requests, and get Carmen to cooperate, they might be ready to go live with a pilot in
Irvine on October 15. That gave him four months to
complete the project. He and the team were going to
have to work hard to make that happen.
Jim realized he had missed his exit. Great, he
thought, I hope it gets better from here.

Question:

Information systems development projects are said to fail if they are late, go over budget, or do not contain all of the functionality they were designed to have. Is the customer loyalty program a failure? Justify your answer. If not, how can failure be prevented? Is it important to avert failure? Why or why not?

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An electric utility is considering a new power plant in northern Arizona. Power from the plant would be sold in the Phoenix area, where it is badly needed. Because the firm has received a permit, the plant would be legal; but it would cause some air pollution. The company could spend an additional $40 million at Year 0 to mitigate the environmental problem, but it would not be required to do so. The plant without mitigation would cost $239.99 million, and the expected net cash inflows would be $80 million per year for 5 years. If the firm does invest in mitigation, the annual inflows would be $85.19 million. Unemployment in the area where the plant would be built is high, and the plant would provide about 350 good jobs. The risk-adjusted WACC is 17%.
a) Calculate the NPV and IRR with and without mitigation.
b) How should the environment effects be dealt with when evaluating this project?
c) Should this project be undertaken? If so, should the firm do the mitigation?

1.   Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the introduction of computers in a local pharmacy:

            (a)        from the pharmacist’s point of view

            (b)       from the customer’s point of view

2   Currently, physicians learn about medications from pharmaceutical representatives who bring samples and educate about the drugs they are representing. How would you prevent pharmaceutical companies from influencing what medications doctors dispense to their patients?

In the fern, fertilization takes places when ________.

A. moisture is present

B. spores reach the eggs within the archegonia

C. sperm swim in external water to the antheridia

D. conditions are dry enough

E. an insects can provide pollination

what two groups produce seeds?

A. gymnosperms and angiosperms

B. bryophytes and ferns

C. bryophytes and gymnosperms

D. angiosperms and fern

E. angiosperms and bryophytes

Oat milk ( introduction), Electric Cars (growth), and Paper Maps (Decline) are three products in different stages of the Product Life Cycle. What marketing strategies would you suggest to companies with each of these products?

project written report

To do a marketing plan of the business venture for lanuching a new consumer product in HongKong market. New consumer producta are those not present or launched within 3 months in HongKong.

the new consumer products is Camping gears

The written report should include the following elements :
Specific consumer behaviour of the chosen segment(s)

report plan:

Consumer Behavior of the target Customer
Consumer Behavior-Factors: Social and Psychological Bases
Consumer buying decision behaviour: Complex Buying Behaviour

about 500 words

Q1) Write a program to implement the quick sort algorithm in a one dimensional array?

Q2) Write a program to implement the merge sort algorithm in a one dimensional array?

How COVID-19 affects SME companies? How to reduce economic losses. Answer in your own words.

Data structure

1. Give three distinct binary search trees for the following data:   1 2 3 4 5 6 7. One of these trees must have minimum height and another must-have maximum height.
2. Draw the BSTs that result from each sequence of add operations. (2) a. 10, 20, 30, 40 b. 30, 20, 40, 10 c. 20, 10, 30, 40

1. List some symptoms that should alert the early childhood educator that a child may need to have his or her eyes examined.

1. Marketing Exam

Describe how live theater could deal with the Intangibility, Inconsistency, Inseparability and Inventory (perishability) of marketing services.

(20 points)

1. Based on your current understanding of the three modern theoretical perspectives (Structural functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionist), give a summary of each perspective. Then, explain which one you agree most with and give an example as to why you think it best explains how society works.

2.  Define one quantitative research method and one qualitative research method.

3.  Define social capital and cultural capital and explain how they are pivotal for low-income and minority students' educational success.

Ellie’s Edibles, Inc. is segmented into three divisions, and $42,000 of the fixed expenses relate to the corporate (common) expenses and had been allocated equally between the three divisions.

A. Calculate the Contribution Margin Ratio for each segment and for the Total Company.

B. Revise the income statement presented above into a segmented income statement.

Write below in Python

Get user name from keyboard using input() function

(Example username = input("Enter username:")

A: What is your name?

B: My name is XXXX.

B: What is yours?

A: My name is XXXX.

A: Nice to meet you.

B: Nice to meet you, too.

Use print statement and use input() function