As part of effective IT planning in systems development life cycle, a return on investment (ROI) calculation may be performed as part of the economic feasibility analysis. Often, many of the benefits from a new information system may be intangible benefits (e.g. system is easier to use or system enhances customer service, etc.) that are hard to quantify in an income statement. What are some intangible benefits of a state-of-the-art course registration system at your college or university?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary depending on the imagination of the student of the course registration. There are few things more important for a student at a university than getting in the right course with the right professor. To the extent that a course registration helps facilitate that, it is really hard to quantify the intangible benefits this might engender.
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A. partition. B. replication. C. blocking. D. factor.
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A. liable for breach of the duty of care. B. liable for breach of the duty of economic sense. C. liable for breach of the duty of loyalty. D. not liable.
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).