MIS 3534 – Prof. Min-Seok Pang

Week 11 – IT-Driven Competitive Strategies (I)

Week 11 – IT-Driven Competitive Strategies (I) – class slides and videos

Week 11 – Strategy (color).pdf

Week 11 – Strategy (bw).pdf

Adam Nash from Wealthfront – CNBC (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0ylo1114vc)

eChoupal – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RH8Xl1C8eE)

FreshDirect – Business Insider (http://www.businessinsider.com/jason-ackerman-on-freshdirect-growth-2013-10)

Historic Blockbuster – Onion News (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5o4oo_historic-blockbuster_news)

Jeff Bezos Interview – The Daily Show (http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/baettl/jeff-bezos)

Online discussion questions – Nov 14

  • How does Uber’s pricing work? How different is it from pricing of traditional taxicabs?
  • What would be reasons for city governments to ban AirBnb or Uber? How would you counter them?
  • What would be reasons for online education to be valuable to education providers or students?
  • Why are technologies of FreshDirect sophisticated and state-of-the-art?

In-class discussion questions – Week 11 (Nov 14)

  • What is eChoupal? With eChoupal, what is ITC trying to accomplish?
  • How did the old supply chain of soybean work?  Who are the losers and the winners?
  • What are the “choke points” in the old supply chain of soybean?
  • What are the benefits of eChoupal to farmers?
  • What is the other information from eChoupal to farmers?
  • Is ITC a charity? Why is it concerned about farmers’ lives and well-being?
  • What bottleneck do Amazon.com and Netflix eliminate?
  • How do FreshDirect, Uber, Airbnb, and Khan Academy disrupt the existing industries by address which bottlenecks?