Week 4 – Enterprise Architecture – class slides

Published September 27, 2016 | By Min-Seok Pang, Ph.D.

Online discussion questions – Sep 26

Published September 27, 2016 | By Min-Seok Pang, Ph.D.

What are other examples of M&A between hospitals or between insurance companies. What are the reasons for these M&As?
What are the other examples of standard we’re enjoying in our everyday life (other than language, currency, railroad, power outlet)?
What should be changed if the U.S. adopts the Metric System as in other countries?
Why does a standard stifle innovation and creativity?
Other examples of a standard payment system such as E-Zpass or SmarTrip?
What would be a valid business/technical reason for a business unit to use Oracle database while everyone else uses My SQL?
By adopting one standard technology for all employees/units (e.g. Microsoft Windows, Oracle database, SAP ERP), what would be the risks?

Published September 20, 2016 | By Min-Seok Pang, Ph.D.

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?

Published September 19, 2016 | By Min-Seok Pang, Ph.D.