MIS 3534 – Prof. Min-Seok Pang

In-class discussion questions – Week 8 (Oct 24)

  • Do you fix your car by yourself or have a mechanic do maintenance? Why?
  • How do you choose your mechanic? Based on what?
  • Why does Apple outsource the entire manufacturing operations to offshore vendors?
  • Why would a company outsource IT operation and development to an external vendor?
  • What would be the reasons that Otis DID NOT outsource the development of e*Logistics?
  • What’s a doctor-patient confidentiality?
  • What is the Infrastructure Replacement (IR) project for at IVK?
  • Why is this project not going well?
  • Why did IVK select NetiFects for the IR project vendor?
  • When selecting NetiFects, what homework did IVK do?
  • How do you choose your mechanic? Based on what?
  • If you did not do “due diligence” in finding an outsourcing vendor, what would happen to you?
  • What would be your choice among the three vendors in Ch. 14?