Yijiang Li

Good answer, Ami. Downtime and lack of productivity are actually two justified reasons to persuade companies to turn to a formal modeling diagram. For instance, without a standard technique, employees in one department would not be able to understand the diagram which is created by employees in another department. Also, the communication is quite…[Read more]

I agree with you, Michelangelo. If an organization choose not to adopt standard techniques, they might save money on training currently. However, based on a long-term strategic perspective, the company may lost some potential cooperation opportunities with other companies who have already adopted these formal modeling diagrams for a long period of…[Read more]

I really like this post, Aaron. You just simply organized how to achieve the alignment between IT strategy and the overall business strategy into three specific words, but they were good enough to illustrate the approach. For instance, culture is broad word in the business world. However, it you connect it to the core values, mission statement,…[Read more]

I totally agree with you, Lezlie. Having a deep understanding of the overall business strategy is a essential job as a member of the IT Strategy Development Team. Figuring out what our business need is and what capabilities we have is much more important while we are developing the appropriate IT Strategy. Second, efficiency and effectiveness are…[Read more]

Based on my understanding, you are talking about that project couldn’t create enough return to its shareholders. As the CEO of your organization, he is responsible to the Board of Directors so he must take fully responsibility of his every decision. Other stakeholders including potential customers and students who are looking for an intership are…[Read more]

Interesting example, Rouying. On the surface, the failure of this nuclear reactor is because the federal government couldn’t coordinate the conflict between economics and environment. Essentially, the root casue of this failure is that federal government didn’t think about every relevant stakeholder’s benefits in this project. For instance, as…[Read more]

Fair enough, Lezlie. According to this reading, project scope has not been defined so far, so all relevant factors including project goals, features, and deliverables are unknown. Therefore, working together for everybody in this team is going to be tough due to a guideline and framework missing. I believe IS steering committee would play a…[Read more]

I agreew with you, Xiaozhou. People in this team have different culture and profession background, coordinating everybody to work toward a same goal is quite difficult. A person from IT and another person from Marketing could have adverse ideas on this project’s direction of development. Also, without enough knowledge and experience in leadership,…[Read more]

One thing you mentioned that I consider interesting is reputation loss. Usually, when an organization determines to outsource its business to outsourcing service provider, it has to bear the risk of reputation loss. When an incident or information leak event happens, people or customer would look back to the outsourcing enterprise itself rather…[Read more]

Well said, Lezlie. Call center and some basic IT functions are always the priority choice which an enterprise decides to outsourcing business. For example, customer service is closely related to our daily life. Outsourcing customer service can usually keep it run 24/7, however, sometimes the quality of service cannot be guaranteed due to culture conflict.

Good point, Folake. Strong security control is always important for any outsourcing service provider since they have to deal with a lot sensitive information/data everyday. One of the security control could be least privilige principle, so it only provides necessary access to authorized personnel at a limited time period. Also, physical control…[Read more]

Good post, Hanqing. For your second point of risk, I would like to understand it as information/data leak. For outsourcing enterprise, they always have to share some sensitive information/data with outsourcing service providers. Therefore, if outsourcing service providers could not handle those information/data properly, it would cause serious…[Read more]