Case Summary Investing in TUFS The case refers to a company called Northern Insurance and their huge investment on TUFS (Technical Underwriting Financial System). That system was the largest investment ever made on IT by Northern Insurance and it was supposed to assist the company by “streamlining the underwriting process and providing strategic e-business capabilities”. Yet‚ after a couple months‚ TUFS became the cost-center of the company‚ spending almost $4 million‚ and therefore the CIO
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Investing in TUFS Jing Wang Major Issues: The TUFS system doesn’t work like what it should be. TUFS should work as a new underwriting procedure and an assessment report to help the company to increase the efficiency of the company. In addition‚ its e-business function can help company solve their online business problems easily. But the current issue is that the TUFS’s underwriting system is only use at the last moment as a double-check step in the old procedure‚ and the company is quitting the
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Investing in TUFS 1. What went wrong with the TUFS investment and what can be done to prevent these problems in the future? TUFS is the Technical Underwriting Financial System and was the biggest distinct outlay in IT by the Northern Insurance Company. They faced the difficulties in first few months and the team found very hard to finish it. The concerns are related with the efficacy and the upcoming prospects for the top notch evolution in underwriting process. Then it converted in to the key
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Investing in TUFS 1. What went wrong with the TUFS investment and what can be done to prevent these problems in the future? The CEO‚ IT‚ marketing‚ executive and sales team intended about the new business approaches to preclude difficulties. Brian smith‚ CIO of Mod Meters also deliberates about the new inventiveness in his thoughts about the institute. They were concerned about to new tactical plunges. They had constricted condition for the time‚ human strength‚ and currency power. They have to
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Running head: TUFS 1 TUFS Daniel Watrous Management Information Systems Northwest Nazarene University TUFS 2 TUFS TUFS Value Proposition The Technical Underwriting Financial System (TUFS) (McKeen & Smith‚ 2012)‚ like any Information Technology (IT) project requires a value assessment. This value assessment is intended to help business leaders weigh the possible benefits and risks associated with the project. In the case of TUFS‚ some of the anticipated benefits included financial savings through
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Case Study 2-investiong in TUFS 1- “What can we do if they won’t use the system the way it was designed” that’s what Brian Smith said in a discussion about the TUFS with his company’s CFO. He was trying to justify the failure of the project by blaming its users; however he exactly pointed out his technician team failure of not addressing users needs and designing the system the way they wanted it to be designed. This problem could have been avoided if he had in his team a system analyst; a
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the offending photo which showed the project team happily "clinking" pop cans and coffee cups in a toast: "Here’s to TUFS!" The Technical Underwriting Financial System (TUFS) was the largest single investment in IT ever made by Northern Insurance‚ and it was going to transform Northern by streamlining the underwriting processes and providing strategic e-business capabilities. The TUFS team had brought the project in on time and on budget‚ so the party was a thank-you for all of the team’s dedicated
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Week 1 (Ch 1-2) Discussion Questions • Instead of being able to swim underwater as Garfield would like in his perfect world‚ what would your perfect world look like? Name at least five things that would exist in your perfect world. Explain. Now name your top 5 stressors. Would any of these stressors be decreased or even eliminated if your perfect world existed? Or is there no correlation between your perfect world and your top stressors? Explain. • Which do you think is more stressful:
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Montgomery‚ Kayla December 8th‚ 2013 Discussion Question #6 Interactionists argue that people learn their gender identities from everyday interactions and that the family is the primary source for gender socialization.Explain some of the ways that parents and siblings can teach gender. Some ways that parents and siblings can teach gender could be: buying girls barbie dolls. By buying daughters shows them feminine ways‚ some barbies even have body parts such as a chest. Barbie dolls also have
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Discussion Questions 1. Complete the following statements by filling in the blanks with either “moral” or “nonmoral” (eg.‚ factual‚ scientific‚ legal): a. Whether or not dumping should be permitted is a moral question. b. “Are dangerous products of any use in the third world?” is a nonmoral (scientific) question. c. “Is it proper for the U.S. government to sponsor the export of products overseas?” is a moral question. d. Weather or not the notification system works as its supporters
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