What were the primary reasons for changing the current system at Butler?

After careful reading of the case material, consider and fully answer the following questions:

1.  What were the primary reasons for changing the current system at Butler?
2.  What role did Butler’s IS department play?
3.  List the objectives of the pilot.  Were there any problems?
4.  Do you think Butler made the right decision to utilize this new technology?  What implications does this decision hold for Butler’s IT department in the long run?
The assignment consists of several questions about the reading.  Each question may or may not have several parts; each part must be addressed in your answer.  You should use good paragraph structure (thesis, supporting evidence, summary), good grammar, and use your spell-checker.  Do NOT use bullet points, sentence fragments, or graphics.  Some questions (or parts of questions) may appear to be opinion questions.  State your opinion, then provide evidence and reasoning to support your position.

Your evidence may come from the case study itself, our textbook, or outside sources.  If you do use outside sources, you must cite them.  I’m not picky about the format of the citations; they can be in-place, or in notes following the text, and I should have no trouble in finding at least a reference to the source.  If you quote material from the textbook (chapters or case study), simply note the page number from which you got the quote.

As to format, I need only your name and the assignment name at the top in a header.  Page numbers and footers are not required.  Number each answer, but do not repeat the question in your answer.  Use standard margins (1 inch) and fonts no larger than 12pt.  For length, typically these assignments can be answered adequately in approximately one and half to two pages of single-spaced text.

I use Turnitin to check papers.  Make sure your work is original and your own.

NOTE: Butler refers to it’s IT department as IR.  You may consider these two acronyms as synonymous (i.e. IT = IS = IR for purposes of this assignment)

After careful reading of the case material, consider and fully answer the following questions:

1.  What were the primary reasons for changing the current system at Butler?
2.  What role did Butler’s IS department play?
3.  List the objectives of the pilot.  Were there any problems?
4.  Do you think Butler made the right decision to utilize this new technology?  What implications does this decision hold for Butler’s IT department in the long run?
The assignment consists of several questions about the reading.  Each question may or may not have several parts; each part must be addressed in your answer.  You should use good paragraph structure (thesis, supporting evidence, summary), good grammar, and use your spell-checker.  Do NOT use bullet points, sentence fragments, or graphics.  Some questions (or parts of questions) may appear to be opinion questions.  State your opinion, then provide evidence and reasoning to support your position.

Your evidence may come from the case study itself, our textbook, or outside sources.  If you do use outside sources, you must cite them.  I’m not picky about the format of the citations; they can be in-place, or in notes following the text, and I should have no trouble in finding at least a reference to the source.  If you quote material from the textbook (chapters or case study), simply note the page number from which you got the quote.

As to format, I need only your name and the assignment name at the top in a header.  Page numbers and footers are not required.  Number each answer, but do not repeat the question in your answer.  Use standard margins (1 inch) and fonts no larger than 12pt.  For length, typically these assignments can be answered adequately in approximately one and half to two pages of single-spaced text.

I use Turnitin to check papers.  Make sure your work is original and your own.

NOTE: Butler refers to it’s IT department as IR.  You may consider these two acronyms as synonymous (i.e. IT = IS = IR for purposes of this assignment)