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1. Reflect upon the IT strategies that are used to encourage economic development. Select two strategies and discuss how economic factors affect the strategies that a government may use to facilitate economic development.

2. Choose the strategies that seem to be complementary to one other and could be implemented simultaneously. Justify your response.

3. Using the three-step process for assessing the IT organization, determine the impact of economic factors at the enterprise level for each step.

4. Give your opinion as to which critical element of strategy (people, process, or technology) is the most important. Justify your answer.

5. Evaluate the elements of a strong marketing channel strategy to determine what element of the strategy might cause the strategy to fail.

6. Choose a company of your choice that operates its own logistics and one that likely outsources its logistics functions. Comparing the two, discuss how the two companies approach their marketing channel strategies.

7. Choose a retailer. Then, of the six phases of the channel design process, determine which has the greatest impact on whether or not a channel strategy is successful for that retailer. Provide your rationale.

8. Examine how a strong marketing channel design will pay for itself.