Day 08 – Enterprise Architecture
Day 8 – Enterprise Architecture – online discussion questions
- What kind of standards do we enjoy in our daily life? (except language, currency, and electricity)
- Any other example like SmarTip or MetroCard in which customers can use a standard payment system to use different services?
- Why is flexibility in IT important for competitiveness?
- How does complexity in IT “kill” business flexibility?
- Any example in which IT complexity inhibits competitiveness?
- What would be valid, legitimate reasons that some business units are using Oracle database, while others are using Microsoft SQL?
- What does it mean by coupling in IT systems?
IT Adventures Ch 16 brief grading completed
Day 8 – Enterprise Architecture – class slides and video links
Day 8 – Enterprise Architecture – in-class discussion questions
- What kind of standards do we enjoy in our daily life? Why do we need them? What if we don’t have standards?
- Why do many European nations use Euro as a common currency? Why do the U.K. and some others refuse to adopt Euro?
- How is a USPS delivery truck different from a standard delivery van?
- What are the problems when employees have a freedom to use any kind of ITs they want?
- What are the problems when a company forces the employees to use the same IT (e.g. Blackberry for all employees)?
- What does it mean by coupling in IT systems?
These are questions that we’ll discuss in-class next Monday. Do not post comments on this.
Day 8 – IT Adventures Ch. 16 – brief guidelines
- What has made IVK IT systems so complex?
- Why is Mr. Barton considering to standardize IVK’s IT systems.
- What are his alternatives? What are the pros and cons of each option?