Session 1-3 – Value and Cost of IT
Class Slides – Jan 7
Recommended Readings presentation slides
Links to Jan 7 Video Clips
- Jeff Bezos Interview – The Daily Show (http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/baettl/jeff-bezos)
- Historic Blockbuster – Onion News (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5o4oo_historic-blockbuster_news)
- Unfriended – Facebook IPO – WSJ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehc-eatmQ2I)
- Delta Airlines Glitch – The National (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WA5JpH6aic)
- IS in Action – Wal-Mart Supply Chain – CNBC (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUe-tSabKag)
- The Explainer – The Balanced Scorecard – HBR (https://hbr.org/video/3633937148001/the-explainer-the-balanced-scorecard)
- Chalk Talk – Tragedy of the Commons (Part 1) – NSF (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZDjPnzoge0)
- Chalk Talk – Tragedy of the Commons (Part 2) – NSF (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVwk6VIxBXg)
- What Is the Prisoner’s Dilemma – Scientific American (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUTWcYXVR5w)
Class Recording – Jan 7
This is a link to today’s class recording – http://tucapture.fox.temple.edu/Mediasite/Play/697e1fe7619a4c57a7aca119827b73651d
Looking for Volunteers for Presentations or Mock Interviews for Jan 7 (will be given a waiver for one reading brief)
For Jan 7, we need five volunteers for presentations and mock job interviews. The volunteers will be given participation credits and can skip one of the reading briefs (will receive a full credit for one brief).
Two volunteers will participate mock job interviews for a new CIO position at IVK. (I will provide guidelines and interview questions.)
- One interviewee has to have majored IT, engineering, MIS, or related fields or have experiences in technology industries or IT development/management.
- Another interviewee has to have any other business experiences.
Three volunteers will present one of the following recommended readings (for 5 minutes each). (I will provide guidelines.)
- HBR – Investing in IT That Makes a Competitive Difference (https://hbr.org/2008/07/investing-in-the-it-that-makes-a-competitive-difference)
- HBR – The Five Competitive Forces That Shape a Strategy (https://hbr.org/2008/01/the-five-competitive-forces-that-shape-strategy)
- MIT SMR – Generate Premium Returns on Your IT Investments (http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/generating-premium-returns-on-your-it-investments/)
Session #1- 3– Value and Cost of IT – 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 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?
Reading Brief Qs for Session 1-3 – 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 investment types of IT projects?
Reading Brief Qs for Session 1-3 – IT Adventures Ch. 4, 5, and 8
- 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)