Week 13 – IT and Your Career
Week 13 – IT and Your Careers – class slides and videos
Week 13 – Your Career (color).pdf
Week 13 – Your Career (bw).pdf
Amazon Go – Amazon.com (https://www.amazon.com/b?node=16008589011#)
Firms Replacing Derivatives Traders with Algorithms – Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/b/47459f6d-644e-4db4-bf14-84be53c81b40)
Robot Journalists – The Daily Show (http://www.cc.com/video-clips/fh76l0/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-robot-journalists)
Self-Driving Truck Makes First Shipment – CNNMoney (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOPwq8WZB6c)
Technology Kills Middle Class Jobs – AP (http://www.usatoday.com/media/cinematic/video/1857519/ap-analysis-technology-kills-middle-class-jobs/)
The Future of CIO – CIO (http://www.cio.com/article/704050)
The Promise of 3-D Printing – TIME (http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2091589_2092033_2096601,00.html)
World Business – Legal Outsourcing – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbCKYLu8Xmg#!)
Online discussion questions – Dec 7
- What kind of jobs are increasingly being replaced by robots and computers?
- What kind of jobs are increasingly being outsourced abroad?
- What kind of jobs will not be replaced by robots and computers in the next 30 years?
- What should you do to survive changes in the job markets made by technologies?
- Why can a successful CIO become a candidate for the CEO position?
- What should be your competitive advantages as MIS majors or minors?
- How would you convince your job interviewer who is skeptical of the value of MIS majors?
Week 12 – IT-Driven Competitive Strategies (II) – class slides
In-class discussion questions – Week 13 (Dec 5)
- What is a jobless recovery?
- What are the causes of a jobless recovery?
- What kind of jobs are increasingly being replaced by computers and robots?
- What kind of jobs are increasingly being outsourced abroad?
- What kind of jobs will be neither replaced by technologies nor outsourced abroad in the next 30 years?
- What kind of skills do these jobs require?
- What does it take for you to survive challenges in the job market?
- In a job interview, how would you answer this question – “Why should we hire you?”
- If the interviewer asks what you’ve learned in MIS 3534, what would you say?
- What would it take to be a great CIO like Mr. Barton?
- What should be your competitive advantages as an MIS major that differentiate yourself from other majors?
- What should be your core competencies?
Week 13 – IT Adventures Ch. 18 – Brief Guideline
- What are the three choices that Mr. Barton has?
- Why did Goldman and Luce give Barton job offers?