MIS 3534 – Prof. Min-Seok Pang

In-class discussion questions – Week 4 (Sep 26)

  • What is a Unified Service Organizations (USO) (Trinity case p. 3)?
  • Why does Trinity implement a “Common Digital Platform”?
  • Why is IT important in hospitals?
  • What kind of standards do we enjoy in our daily life?
  • Why do many European nations use Euro as a common currency?
  • Why do the U.K. and some others refuse to adopt Euro?
  • What are the benefits from a standard?
  • What would be the costs in having a standard? By having a standard, we are losing what?
  • Why does the U.S. refuse to adopt the Metric System?
  • Why do states adopt E-Zpass for a common standard payment system?
  • Why have IT systems at IVK gotten so complex?
  • When there is freedom, employees and business units are using different kinds of ITs, whatever they want. What are the problems in this case?
  • What does it mean by coupling in IT systems?
  • Can the collections system at IVK be up-and-running without communicating with the loan operation system or the financial/accounting system?