Question: We are now in week 5 of the class. At the end of this week, you are going to submit a memo to your instructor stating the topic of your proposed white paper and the audience for whom it is intended.

In this discussion topic, please share your topic and audience with your classmates. Please write one or two paragraphs in which you give as much detail as you can about the "previous approaches" to the situation and the "new findings" you will describe in the white paper.

You might review the sample student white paper, "Cloud Considerations," as well as the second sample student white paper, "ITSM." You also might review the Purdue OWL lecture on white papers that we saw in class earlier.

Topic: Discovering How Companies Increase Performance and Profit Through Purchasing Automation.