Your employer has an annual revenue of $50 million and employs 500 people. It intends to purchase 100 new laptop computers. You have been appointed by the chief financial officer to lead a project...

Your employer has an annual revenue of $50 million and employs 500 people. It intends to purchase 100 new laptop computers. You have been appointed by the chief financial officer to lead a project team charged with defining users' computer hardware requirements and recommending the most cost-effective solution to meet those requirements. Who else (job, department) and how many other team members would you select? How would you go about defining the demands of your users? Do you believe that there will be a single type of portable computer that will fulfill everyone's needs? Should you define numerous portable computers to meet the requirements of diverse end user classes? What business reason can you provide for this approximately $100,000 expenditure?