Short Case Scenario 13-1

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Short Case Scenario 13-1
Bill Chung is the recently appointed Vice President of Information Systems for Worldwide Corporation. This is a newly created position. Bill joins the preexisting management team of Vice Presidents for Operations, Finance, and Marketing. Bill is determined to make himself useful and to improve the way Worldwide does business. Very quickly, Bill observes that Worldwide has collected rooms full of data but rarely use it to make decisions. During his first week of work, he comments to the company's president, Cindy Stevens, that the company has plenty of data but very little information. Cindy looks puzzled.
-Ralph Wood,Vice President for Marketing,is planning to fly in his eight area sales managers for a yearly planning session.Sarah Sayre,Vice President for Finance,complains that the company is in a weak cash position and looks to Bill for a technological alternative to Ralph's planning session.What can Bill suggest?

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Definitions:

Strength Of Association

A measure indicating the relationship's intensity between two variables, showing how closely the variables are related.

Variables

Elements or characteristics within a study that can vary and have different values among subjects.

Correlation Coefficient

A statistical measure that calculates the strength and direction of the relationship between two variables.

Linear Regression

A statistical method for modeling the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables by fitting a linear equation.