(1) Choose your initial question from the two questions below, and (2) Respond to another student's posting. Be sure to click "Start a New Thread" for your initial posting and to identify the question you are answering in the subject line (Q1 or Q2).

1. Suppose that the vice president of marketing asks you to write a program to create labels for a one-time advertising promotion. As IT manager, you know that the labels can be prepared more efficiently by exporting the data to a word processing program and using a mail merge feature. How would you handle this situation?

2. One of your coworkers says, "Mission statements are nice, but they really don't change things down here where the work gets done." How would you reply?