Session 2-2 – IT-Driven Competitive Strategies
Class Slides – Jan 14
Links to Jan 14 Video Clips
- How Target Blew It – Businessweek (http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-13/target-missed-alarms-in-epic-hack-of-credit-card-data)
- Obama Administration Knew About Healthcare.gov Delay – Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/19/obamacare-report_n_4299919.html)
- Mad Money Features Betterment – CNBC (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG9vgiYekiA)
- Amazon Go – Amazon.com (https://www.amazon.com/b?node=16008589011#)
- Firms Replacing Derivatives Traders with Algorithms – Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/b/47459f6d-644e-4db4-bf14-84be53c81b40)
- Robot Journalists – The Daily Show (http://www.cc.com/video-clips/fh76l0/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-robot-journalists)
- Self-Driving Truck Makes First Shipment – CNNMoney (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOPwq8WZB6c)
- Technology Kills Middle Class Jobs – AP (http://www.usatoday.com/media/cinematic/video/1857519/ap-analysis-technology-kills-middle-class-jobs/)
- World Business – Legal Outsourcing – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbCKYLu8Xmg#!)
Recommended Readings and Debate presentation slides
Class Recording – Jan 14
This is a link to today’s class recording – http://tucapture.fox.temple.edu/Mediasite/Play/697e1fe7619a4c57a7aca119827b73651d
Sign-Up for Presentations and Participation for Jan 14
For Jan 14, we will need presenters and debaters as follows. Please sign up! It is a first-come-first-serve. A presenter or a debater will get a waiver for one reading brief and participation credits.
When signing up, please mention which article you’d like to present or which role you’d like to play. If you don’t mention it, your sign-up will not count.
Presentations of a Recommended Reading
- HBR – Information Technology and Board of Directors (https://hbr.org/2005/10/information-technology-and-the-board-of-directors)
- HBR – Platforms and the New Rules of Strategy (https://hbr.org/2016/04/pipelines-platforms-and-the-new-rules-of-strategy)
- HBR – Break Your Industry’s Bottlenecks (https://hbr.org/2015/07/break-your-industrys-bottlenecks)
- HBR – The Giant Decoupling (https://hbr.org/2015/06/the-great-decoupling)
- MIT Technology Review – How Technology Is Destroying Jobs (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/515926/how-technology-is-destroying-jobs/)
Presentation of IT Adventures Ch. 10 and 11
- I am looking for someone with technology smart who can translate technical terms and jargons in IT Adventures Ch 10 and 11 to the classmates with business smart.
Debaters
- One debater who will argue that IVK should disclose the incidents in IT Adventures Ch 10. (I prefer someone who has experiences or backgrounds in legal.)
- Another debater who will argue that IVK should NOT disclose the incidents. (I prefer someone with technology smart.)
Session #2-2 – IT-Driven Competitive Strategies – In-Class Discussion Questions
- What bottleneck do Amazon.com and Netflix eliminate?
- What is a Long Tail?
- Why could Betterment and Wealthfront be disruptive?
- Why are Uber and Airbnb disruptive?
- What are the examples of one-sided network effects?
- What are the examples of two-sided network effects?
- Why do men pay more at a night club than women?
- What happend to EJ? How serious is this incident to Airbnb?
- What are the examples of online reputation systems in other platforms?
- What are the policies in Uber to manage the pool of drivers?
- Should Airbnb actually find out hosts who racially discriminate and ban them from participating the platform?
Reading Brief Qs for Session 2-2 – Airbnb
- What happened to EJ?
- Why is an online reputation system needed?
- What is Airbnb’s plan to facilitate safe transactions?