1. What type of information needs does a large and very rapidly expanding company like Home Depot have? Does a traditional ERP system meet those needs?

2. You are a new human resources manager assigned to your firm's IT organization. One of your responsibilities is to screen resumes for Job openings in the organization. You are in the process of reviewing more than 100 resumes you received for a position as a Cisco network specialist. Your goal is to trim the group down to the top five candidates to invite to an in-house interview. About half the resumes are from IT workers with less than three years of experience who claim to have one or more Cisco certifications. There are also a few candidates with over five years of impressive experience but no Cisco certifications listed on their resumes. You were instructed to include only candidates with a Cisco certification in the list of finalists. However, you are concerned about possible resume inflation and the heavy emphasis on certification versus experience. What would you do?

3. You are a member of the Human Resources Department of a three-year-old software manufacturer that has several products and annual revenue in excess of 5500 million. You've lust received a request from the manager of software development to hire three notorious crackers to probe your company's software products m an attempt to identify any vulnerabilities. The reasoning is that if anyone could find a vulnerability in your software, they could. This will give your firm a head start on developing patches to fix the problems before anyone can exploit them. You're not sure, and you feel uneasy about hiring people with criminal records and connections to unsavory members of the hacker/ cracker community. What would you do?