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What kind of “homework” or research would be needed in selecting an IT outsourcing vendor?

The organization should ask for the RFI (Request for Information). This way its possible to check the availability of equipment or needed services, the approximate time and recurring costs and lastly the differentiating factors between the goods or services proposed and similar offerings from other vendors.

Why is Google operating its own cafeterias with full-time chefs and cooks for its all employees, instead of outsourcing to external caterers?

Feeding its employees Google is able to provide high quality food and guarantee that people is getting healthy, natural and delicious food. Its people-based business strategy makes sure that the company’s stable of big brains is literally well-fed and nurtured.

-Why is Google operating its own cafeterias with full-time chefs and cooks for its all employees, instead of outsourcing to external caterers?
A: Google knows employees are precious intangible assets. Google wants the benefits they provides are really benefited to their employees. It is easy to control their own chefs or cooks to provide high quality services or food to their employees. If Google outsourcing external caterers, they won’t exactly follow what Google requirements.

-What kind of “homework” or research would be needed in selecting an IT outsourcing vendor?
A: The company should research vendor’s customers satisfaction from the website like Yelp. Also, the company should also invests vendor’s reputation, cost, and efficiency. All these factors are the key to company.

Why is Google operating its own cafeterias with full-time chefs and cooks for its all employees, instead of outsourcing to external caterers?
Google is an employee friendly company. Its financial reputation is so huge that firstly it can afford to have its own chefs. Moreover, having own chefs ensures that the quality and delivery of food will be to the top most standards. Also having own cooks ensures that employees get food as and when they want and can relish.
Why is it more difficult to control an external vendor than to control your own employees?
An external vendor is difficult to control an external vendor as it has its own business values and terms of service. Moreover, it becomes difficult to control service delivery aspects and quality, that may not be assured. In such cases, own employees are obviously better.
Why is there a “non-disclosure agreement” in any contract?
A non-disclosure agreement is not an ordinary agreement and is rather confidential in all aspects as it contains legal information or information that should not be shared with other parties. This agreement is kept secret between the parties that are involved in it.
What kind of “homework” or research would be needed in selecting an IT outsourcing vendor?
First to select and IT outsourcing vendor, it is important to know the level of expertise and the number of experience the vendor has in the Information Technology field. It is also important to identify the project size that the company has handled and its reputation and service delivery of projects to customers.

Why is flexibility in IT important for competitiveness?
Flexibility is extremelly important in order to maintain competitive advantage in today’s dynamic and highly competitive business enviroment, a business needs to be highly flexible to match a rivals move or change in stratregic position, the external enviroment in some markets is highly frluid and a rigid organization that lacks agility will not survive.
How does complexity in IT “kill” business flexibility?
when the IT Ifrastructure is complex and many non-standard and diifferent applications and programs run in the organization, this cumbersome complex enviroment kills the organizations business agility because in order to response or quickly change the organization needs tro update or change not just one platform but many programs and applications which takes time and considerable limited resources.

What kind of standards do we enjoy in our daily life? (except language, currency, and electricity)
– I would said that living on campus, we have a variety of chance to get free stuff and many services that Temple offers such as Diamond Dollar is a good example for good standard that we do enjoy in our daily life.

Why is flexibility in IT important for competitiveness?
– In order to consider when there is a failure in IT innovation. We all need extra spaces for prevent any types of IT risks.

How does complexity in IT “kill” business flexibility?
– With many process and complexity in IT, it kills business flexibility because it will delay operating times and it cannot eliminate any process steps.

What does it mean by coupling in IT systems?
– It means that most of IT systems are functioning together. In other words, the multiple systems shares one workloads.

What kind of standards do we enjoy in our daily life? (except language, currency, and electricity)
-Measurements: In the US, we use miles per hour for speed limits, while other countries, like Canada, use kilometers per hour.
-Internet: The world wide web can be accessed by anyone with a cable or wireless connection and displays all of the same content to the varying users.

Any other example like SmarTip or MetroCard in which customers can use a standard payment system to use different services?
-LevelUP: app on cell phones in which you link your credit card to your account and can use the app to pay for goods and services at different retailers
-Tap Pass: card that can be refilled and reused to pay for transportation services in Los Angeles
-PayPal: online payment platform that can be used peer-to-peer and as payments for goods and services at online retailers

What kind of standards do we enjoy in our daily life? (except language, currency, and electricity)

Some standards that we enjoy in day to day life are availability to access familiar food and beverages. We can reasonably expect healthy environments and safe work places. we enjoy the safety of police officers, firefighters, and other public servants.

Any other example like SmarTip or MetroCard in which customers can use a standard payment system to use different services? Phone application paying systems like Venmo or Level up
Why is flexibility in IT important for competitiveness?
SO you can adjust to new initiatives from competitors
How does complexity in IT “kill” business flexibility?
complexity in IT bottle necks what you’re able to do, and slows down how quickly you can institute new technologies, softwares, and services.

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Coupling is when two or more systems work in conjunction in order to allow IT to work effectively.

Any other example like SmarTip or MetroCard in which customers can use a standard payment system to use different services?
One very famous example that can be quoted is Bitcoins which has gained sufficient popularity in the recent world. Bitcoins serve as another virtual currency payment system for millions of consumers.
Why is flexibility in IT important for competitiveness?
Flexibility clearly shows how efficiently the system is designed and operated. It also implicitly shows that the system is far efficient, well coded and designed, and capable of easy maintenance which strengthens the business in the competitive world.
How does complexity in IT “kill” business flexibility?
Complexity in IT definitely kills the flexibility of the business due to the fact that complexity adds more overheads, costs, processing, resource use, time and budget for the overall program to succeed. Complexity of a system also makes the maintenance and support highly difficult as complexity required skilled labor to handle those systems.
What would be valid, legitimate reasons that some business units are using Oracle database, while others are using Microsoft SQL?
There are many reasons for it. Firstly, Oracle has been a pioneer in Databases and it has been providing database services for millions of customers for so many years. Considering the usage and convenience of using Oracle databases, many people don’t switch easily to Microsoft SQL. However, Microsoft SQL has the biggest benefit of Transact SQL, which negates the use of complex SQL and others. Both are performance oriented with a little difference in their transaction processing capabilities.
What does it mean by coupling in IT systems?
In IT systems, many components or sub-systems are integrated or linked to each other for operations. Coupling in IT systems basically means the degree to which these components are related to each other. Example, components may be tightly related to each other or loosely related. A degree of coupling shows how convenient it is for a software system to execute its operations or code.

– What kind of standards do we enjoy in our daily life?
Forks, knives and spoons are standard types of tools that help us eat the food, even though some countries on Asia use another type.

– Any other example like SmarTip or MetroCard in which customers can use a standard payment system to use different services?
I would say NFC is a standard payment system used to complete financial transactions, evaluate products and services, and participate in merchant loyalty programs.

– Why is flexibility in IT important for competitiveness?
being flexible the company has a chance to react quickly to unexpected changes in the market and also avoid large risks.

-What kind of standards do we enjoy in our daily life? (except language, currency, and electricity)
In US, we use the same measurements like inch, pond, and oz. It is really convinced for us to use the same measurements. If there are two measurement systems in the US. People will confused about measurements. In addition, the manufactures will cost much to educate people who don’t know other system.
-Any other example like SmarTip or MetroCard in which customers can use a standard payment system to use different services?
A: Another standard payment system is Visa or MasterCard. We can use to shopping all over the world. For example, we can use Visa in Fresh Grocer, pay tuition fee, and online shopping even International website. For my personal experiment, I used Visa card to buy a muffin in Russian airport.