Day 11 – Strategic IT Outsourcing (II) – in-class discussion questions

• If you are a parent of a high-school kid, how would you write a private-tutoring contract with a tutor? If you are a tutor, how would you?
• What’s the strategic position of Bharti Airtel in the industry? Is it doing well? What are Bharti’s core competencies?
• Why did Mr. Gupta, the managing director of Bharti, say “Budgeting for capital expenditures was a nightmare”? (p. 1)
• Think about the relationship between Bharti and Ericsson, a network equipment vendor. What are the interests of Bharti? What are the interests of Ericsson? Are they in the same boat?
• In the proposed outsourcing contract with the network vendors, how will Bharti pay, for what? With IBM, how will it pay, for what?
• If you were a network or IT engineer, would you work for Bharti or Nokia/IBM?
• What could go wrong in Bharti’s long-term outsourcing relationship?
• Should two roommates write and sign an agreement? Or can they?

We’ll discuss these questions in-class next Monday. Do not write comments here.