3. Wireless Fitness Sandifer's Fitness Club is located in beautiful South Carolina. Rosle Sandifer has owned and oper- ated the club for 20 years. The club has three outdoor pools, two Indoor pools, 10 racquetball courts, 10 tennis courts, an Indoor and outdoor track, along with a four-story exercise equipment and massage therapy building. Rosle has hired you as a summer intern specializing in Information technology. The extent of Rosle's current technology Includes a few PCs in the accounting depart- ment and two PCs with Internet access for the rest of the staff. Your first assignment is to create a report detalling networks and wireless technologies. The report should explain how the club could gain a business advantage by Implementing a wireless network. If Rosle likes your report, she will hire you as the full-time employee in charge of Information technology. Be sure to include all of the different uses for wireless devices the club could Implement to Improve its operations.

3. Wireless Fitness Sandifer's Fitness Club is located in beautiful South Carolina. Rosle Sandifer has owned and oper- ated the club for 20 years. The club has three outdoor pools, two Indoor pools, 10 racquetball courts, 10 tennis courts, an Indoor and outdoor track, along with a four-story exercise equipment and massage therapy building. Rosle has hired you as a summer intern specializing in Information technology. The extent of Rosle's current technology Includes a few PCs in the accounting depart- ment and two PCs with Internet access for the rest of the staff. Your first assignment is to create a report detalling networks and wireless technologies. The report should explain how the club could gain a business advantage by Implementing a wireless network. If Rosle likes your report, she will hire you as the full-time employee in charge of Information technology. Be sure to include all of the different uses for wireless devices the club could Implement to Improve its operations.

Information Technology Project Management

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ISBN:9781285452340

Author:Kathy Schwalbe

Publisher:Kathy Schwalbe

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