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Budgeting In Student Life: An Educational Website, Heather Grunden

Honors Projects

An applied honors project in the form of a website prototype. The purpose of this website is to introduce college students to the concept of budgeting and to teach them the core steps of creating their own budget, since many existing budgeting applications are pay-to-use, and the free options tend to have little to no instruction.

Strategies To Manage Enterprise Information Technology Projects, Mario West

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Since 2005, most midsize company information technology (IT) projects had a 62.4% failure rate because of wrong project team communication skills or cost overruns. IT leaders expect negative IT project outcomes will cost over $2 billion by 2020. Using the actor-network theory, the purpose of this single case study was to explore strategies used by IT leaders from a midsize IT company in Washington, D.C. to plan and execute projects under budget and on time. Using purposeful sampling, 5 IT leaders were selected for this study because of their experience in implementing successful strategies for projects. Data were collected using …

Impact Of The Adoption Of New Technology (Facnet) On A Minority-Owned Small Business In Colorado, Tamara L. James

McCabe Thesis Collection

FACNET is a computer network that moves Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) from the Department of Defense (DoD) and federal buying sites to and from the certified Value Added Network (VAN).

This study is conducted to answer the following questions about the use FACNET by XYZ Communications:

1) Has FACNET helped reduce the cost of paper used in the business?

2) Has FACNET helped reduce the cost of long distance calls (telephone and fax) in the business?

3) Has FACNET helped reduce the cost of traveling expenses (hotel and transportation) in the business?

4)Has FACNET helped the business to conduct in …