Session 2-3 – IT and Your Career
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 #2-3 – IT and Your Career – In-Class Discussion Questions
- What’s “jobless recovery”? Why is this happening?
- Why has the median family income not been rising while GDP was growing rapidly for the past 20 years?
- What’s “skill mismatch”? Why is this happening?
- What kind of jobs are vulnerable to technology development?
- What kind of jobs are immune to technology development?
- What would you say to your children about the impact of technology on jobs?
- What would you say to your kid’s school principal about it?
- What would you say to President-Elect Trump about it?
- What would you say to yourself about it?
Reading Brief Qs for Session 2-3 – Will Humans Go the Way of Horses?
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-06-16/will-humans-go-way-horses
- How do the authors (Brynjolfsson and McAfee) compare humans to horses?
- What are the advantages of humans vis-a-vis machines?
- What are the authors’ policy proposals?