Information Technology Project Management
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Author: Kathy Schwalbe
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 4, Problem 1T
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Running projects
- The four running projects are
- Recreation and wellness intranet.
- Health coverage business model.
- Cross selling system.
- Web enhanced communication system.
- The reason behind to proposing these projects is to increase the quality, increase cross selling the products, reduce cost, and adaptility to grab the new web based technology to help customer as well as suppliers.
- Hence, these projects collectively work to improve the performance of the development and delivery of health care products and services.
Table showing the proposed projects
| Project name | Business strategy | Financial benefit | Other benefit | Initial assessment |
| Recreation and wellness intranet | The aim of this project is to decrease internal cost of products... |
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