PADP 8420 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Jack Morelli, Prentice Hall, User Friendly

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Public Administration and Policy
• Course: PADP 8420
• Professor: Rainey

Document Summary

Mary carter is an accounting manager at restview hospital. Jack morelli, wanted to modernize restview"s system of accounts billing and asked mary to investigate available software packages that would be compatible with their computer system. A week later, jack checked on mary"s progress and she reported she had identified two vendors with appropriate software packages. Jack wondered why her list did not include their current vendor standard software systems whose president was a personal friend of jack. During the next two weeks, sales representatives from each vendor were invited to make a presentation and mary planned to invited the board members, but jack said they were too busy. Her investigation concluded that standard"s new software package was less flexible and less user-friendly than the others. Mary prepared a report to jack detailing the advantages and disadvantages of each product and making her recommendation of the package from reliable.