Critical Thinking Questions Case 12-1 You Have Taken a Temporary

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Critical Thinking Questions Case 12-1 You have taken a temporary position as an IT consultant for a large firm with a variety of database solutions that you and your team are working to consolidate into one enterprise-wide solution. You are currently in the process of gathering information about where things stand with each of the individual database solutions. One of the functions of the database solutions is to register users for a major conference sponsored by the firm. The managers are looking to minimize transition costs and implement a new single solution very quickly, and they are willing to take the risk of the registration system possibly not working when the conference registrations begin. What conversion type is a good match for this set of circumstances and attitudes?

• A) parallel
• B) phased
• C) direct
• D) pilot

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