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Here are the details of the new assignment:

In approximately 2000 words, answer the following fou’ questions:

1) Cisco was highly successful with its enterprise resou’ce planning (ERP) effort- What
accounts for this success? What were the most important things that Cisco did
correctly?

2) Did Cisco do anything wrong on this project? If so, what?

3) Cisco went live with ERP in a big bang fashion, which is inherently risky- How did
Cisco mitigate this risk?

4) Was Cisco smart or lucky with its ERP implementation?

Additionally, it will be important to consider how the business situation dove the
technical decisions- Remember that IT is a tool, and it is intended to support the
needs of the business while existing within the context of that business- it will be
important to consider how the business situation had an affect on the decision
making, and what other decisions were made to accommodate for some things that
may not have been ideally possible- Also consider the role and interests of everyone
involved, including the partners and vendors-