Meredith Corporation publishes books and magazines, own and operates television station,and provides a real estate marketing and franchising service. Meredith is dissatisfied with its ability to retrieve correct and timely inventory information from its AIS. Each division either developed its own inventory system or already had one in place when Meredith acquired the AIS. As a result, Meredith has 11 different inventory system, which are unable to communicate with each other. Management wants to tie the system together and have one consistent inventory pool from which to extract the information needed for marketing good business decisions. Meredith has decided to use prototyping to develop the system.