Shanghai Bell - The Collaborative Product Commerce System (CPC‪)‬

The research and development improvement manager at Shanghai Bell, a European-Chinese joint venture, has just finished a meeting with top management on strategic initiatives suggested in the corporate information systems plan report. One project that was suggested in the report - implementing a collaborative product commerce system - was about to begin. The manager must review the project planning process and examine the extent to which the company was ready to undertake the project.