Introduction

[|First Amendment Victory for My Old Colleagues and Clients]

With the United States Constitution, the first amendment provides for freedom of assembly just like the Computer Information Systems (CIS) Internship Course at Georgia State University (GSU). CIS 4980 provides students with credit for a non-paid internship. For Spring semester 2009, students were treated as adults with leniency and allowed to divide into sets of four amongst themselves. Each team chose two internship projects from a list of seven. This list included projects with GSU, with Georgia Pacific (GP), and with a few other companies.

With the first amendment, and some luck, on our student side, I grouped up with two college friends and one new acquaintance on our first choice, Business Process Management (BPM) for GP. This semester long internship not only provided life-long working experience, but also supplied many twists and turns with nooks and crannies for the four of us to overcome. This semester may not have been easy, but it was worth every second of our time. The next few pages will provide lessons on this project about the problem, the solutions, the ethical and social issues, and the results. While reading these lessons, just keep in mind to never judge a book by its cover; the title of the cover here is BPM.

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