Session #3 – Value and Cost of IT
Class Slides and Video – Session #3
Session 3 – Value and Cost of IT.pdf
Chalk Talk – Tragedy of the Commons (Part 1) – NSF (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZDjPnzoge0)
What Is the Prisoner’s Dilemma – Scientific American (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUTWcYXVR5w)
Class Recordings – April 4
Reading Brief Qs for Session #3 – IT Adventures Ch. 4, 5, and 8
Read Ch. 4, 5, and 8 of “The Adventures of an IT Leader” and write answers to the following questions in no more than 200 words (for all four questions, not for each).
- What is the funding mechanism for IT at IVK? What is a chargeback? (Ch. 4)
- What are the concepts of “Competes vs. Qualifiers” and IT Strategic Grid (Ch. 5)
- Why has Mr. John Cho’s request for IT security funding been being denied? (Ch. 8)
- Why had Mr. Davies, the former IVK CIO, had to set up a slush fund? How? (Ch. 8)
Reading Brief Qs for Session #3 – Volkswagen of America
- What are the enterprise goal areas in VWoA’s “Next Round of Growth” (NRG)?
- Who participates in the decision processes to decide which project to fund at VWoA?
- What are the three investment types of IT projects?
Session #3 – In-Class Discussion Questions
- How much do you think Otis has spent in Otisline and e*Logistics? How can we justify such a large amount of investments?
- What are the business benefits of Otisline?
- Who provides the IT budget at IVK? On what basis do the business units at IVK pay for IT?
- Why had Mr. Davies, the former CIO, have to set up “slush funds”? How did he secure the slash funds?
- Why is Mr. John Cho requesting an immediate funding on IT security? Why has the request for IT security funding kept being denied?
- Do you know why there is no group assignment in this course?
- What are the examples of Prisoner’s Dilemma in our daily or business life?
- What does Maggie, Mr. Barton’s girlfriend/consultant, mean by “one neck in the noose”?
- How would you evaluate the IT funding process at VWoA? Is it better than the current process at IVK? How?