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Question 1: You are designing a grocery delivery business. Via the Internet, your company will offer staples and frozen foods in a large metropolitan area and then deliver them within a customer-defined window of time. You plan to partner with two major food stores in the area. What should be your competitive priorities and what capabilities do you want to develop in your own core and support processes?
• Is it possible for a project to have more than one critical path? Discuss the implications of such a situation with respect to each of the following aspects:
• Project risk
• Total available slack
• Resource dependencies
• Responsibilities of the project manager

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According to The Financial Times, the service is linked to Amazon’s Fresh grocery delivery service, which currently only operates in the Seattle area but is available to all consumers in that area. Fresh offers fresh produce and meats in addition to non-perishable grocery items; the service goes beyond food, too, ranging from pet supplies to beauty products and other Amazon.com categories. Granted, the convenience is reflected in the price — would you pay $2.50 for a single grapefruit under any other circumstances? — but you get what you pay for, which in this case amounts to a lot of time and energy saved. Clearly, customers’ being able to order everyday home items online and have them delivered to their doors would put Amazon in further competition with big-box retailers. As an online bookstore, Amazon has given companies like Barnes & Noble and Borders a run for their money. If Amazon’s delivery service goes nationwide — and if it remains free and frequent — we can see the online retailer grabbing business from Walmart, Target and even local grocery stores. Alternatively, Walmart, Target, et al. would be forced to offer competing delivery services of their own. In either case, the consumer wins.

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