Online Discussion Questions
Online discussion questions – Apr 27
- 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?
Online discussion questions – Apr 24
- 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?
Online discussion questions – Apr 22
- What kind of jobs are increasingly being replaced by robots and computers?
- What kind of jobs are increasingly being outsourced abroad?
Online discussion questions – Apr 20
- 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?
Online discussion questions – Apr 17
- What were the roles of Samyojak (former CAs at Mandis) in eChoupal?
- Why did ITC allow farmers to continue doing business with CAs at Mandis as they used to, even if it could ban the farmers from doing so?
- Do you think ITC’s competitive advantages from eChoupal can be sustainable? Why or why not?
- Any other examples, in which a new entrant with IT disrupts the existing industry by eliminating “choke points” or market inefficiency?
Online discussion questions – Apr 15
- Any other example in which middlemen such as CAs in Mandis create inefficiency in an industry?
- What did ITC do in order to overcome regulatory challenges in implementing eChoupal?
- While eChoupal seems to be beneficial to farmers, they are not well-versed in using PCs and the Internet. How does ITC help them adopt eChoupal?
- Before accepting a job offer, what kind of research do you have to do?
Online discussion questions – Apr 13
- What should be among the preventative measures for a failure due to personal devices?
- From IT Adventures Ch. 17, What is Mr. Williams’ point with respect to his poker analogy? What is Mr. Barton’s point with respect to his risk escalator analogy?
- Did Mr. Williams make a right call by doing nothing?
- Any other trade-off situation in risk and security management?
Online discussion questions – Apr 10
- How would you compare CareGroup’s response to the network collapse to IVK’s?
- In what respect did CareGroup do a better job than IVK did in managing the crisis?
- Why is leadership important in crisis management?
- In crisis management, why is support from a CEO and other executives important?
Online discussion questions – Apr 8
- Any other IT failure that could make a life-and-death situation?
- If you are Mr. Halamka and do not know the cause of network collapse, how would you figure out what is happening?
- Any other IT systems that hospitals depend on?
Online discussion questions – Apr 1
- How would you explain the difference between a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack and an intrusion to a non-IT boss or colleagues?
- If an intrusion was indeed occurred and it was the intruder who changed the database index file, why would he/she have done it?
- What would have happened if Mr. Barton “pulled the plug” at the request of Mr. Wells?
- How would you explain “set up parallel systems built from development files, then switch over the those” to your non-IT boss?