Complete a project charter for the Recreation Intranet Project. The project will take six months to complete and cost about $200,000.

Wellness Is Supplemental Enterprise (WISE) is an international organization that provides a variety of wellness services. WISE has a large employee base with more than 20,000 full-time and 5,000 part-time. WISE updated its strategic plan recently to include reducing internal costs, increasing cross-selling of products, and exploiting new Web-based technologies as key goals to help employees, customers, and suppliers work together to improve wellness products development and delivery. Below are some ideas the IT department proposed for supporting the new strategic goals: 1. Recreation Intranet Project: Provide an application on the intranet to help employees improve their health. A recent study found that, because of the less ideal employee health status, WISE pays 20 percent more for employee healthcare than the industry average. This application helps to improve employee wellness so negotiations can be conducted to lower healthcare insurance costs. It is presumed that net savings of at least $30 per employee per year for full-time employees will be provided over the next four years. The following capabilities will be included in the application: Allowing employee registration to sponsored recreational programs, such as basketball, softball, bowling, jogging, and walking. Allowing employee registration to sponsored classes and programs that help them manage their health-related issues, e.g., obesity, annual health risk assessments, smoking cessation programs or weight loss programs, etc. Tracking for employee involvement in registered recreational programs as well as health-related classes and programs. Offering incentives to motivate employees joining the programs and improve with them, e.g., for achieving weight loss goals, winning sports competitions, etc. 2. Healthcare Expenses Model: Develop an application to track employee healthcare expenses and organizational healthcare costs. Healthcare premiums have been increasing, and the company has altered insurance providers a few times in the past decade. This application should allow business modeling of various scenarios as well as tracking and analyzing current and past employee healthcare expenses and organizational healthcare costs. This application must be secure and available on the intranet so certain managers and analysts are able to access it as well as to download selected data for further analysis. The new application must also import data from the current systems that track employee expenses submitted to the organization and the costs to the insurance provider. This data will help revise policies concerning employee contributions to healthcare premiums and help negotiate for lower premiums with insurance companies. It is estimated that this application would save the organization about $20 per employee per year for full-time employees over the next four years and cost about $100,000 to develop. 3. Cross-Selling Improvement: Develop an application to improve cross-selling to current customers. The current sales management system has separate sections for major product and service categories and different sales reps based on those products and services. You see great opportunities to increase sales to current customers by providing discounts when they purchase multiple products and services. It is estimated that this system would increase profits by $1 million each year for the next three years and cost about $800,000 each year for development and maintenance. 4. Web-based Communications System: Develop a Web-based application to improve development and delivery of products and services. There are a number of existing systems related to the development and delivery of products and services that are incompatible. This application would allow customers and suppliers to provide suggestions, enter orders, view the status and history of orders, and use e-commerce capabilities to list and purchase products. It is presumed that this system would save the organization about $2 million each year for three years after implementation. This system will take approximately one year and $3 million to develop and require 20 percent of development costs each year to maintain.