Entries by John

How do you feel about online merchants tracking your purchases and using this information to recommend additional purchases? Is this ethical?

August 14, 2019 in /by

Amazon.com relies on an expert system to refer books to its customers. Like many e- commerce sites, Amazon allows visitors to search for, buy, and review books. Amazon.com takes its database interactivity a step further. Given a particular book title, its case-based reasoning engine examines all past sales of that book to see if the […]

Which market would present the most competition? Who would Alphabet’s main competitors be and how could Alphabet differentiate itself?

August 14, 2019 in /by

Alphabet Energy Evaluate Alphabet’s market entry decision through the following market characteristics. 1. Which market looks most attractive for Alphabet’s technology at this stage of the company’s development, assuming no one can match Alphabet’s price and performance? Consider customer demands, time to market, potential profits, and long-term strategic vision. How would viable competitors change your […]

Aligning Agile Methodologies

August 14, 2019 in /by

Aligning Agile Methodologies Select the most appropriate agile methodology for approaching the project for each of the five story problems. Justify your selection. STORY PROBLEM METHODOLOGY OR COMBINATION OF METHODOLOGIES JUSTIFICATION FOR THE METHODOLOGY OR COMBINATION OF METHODOLOGIES A law firm with three partners is considering going completely paperless and to a cloud solution. This […]

Would you change the process in any way? If so, how? If the process remains as it is, how can Parker get his ideas included?

August 14, 2019 in /by

Alex Parker is the quality director at CompuTech, Inc. His is a middle-management position. CompuTech’s senior executives have announced that they intend to hire a strategic planning consultant to develop a plan for the company. Planning will begin in about 2 months. It will take place in the conference center of a local resort and […]