Online discussion questions – Apr 27

Published April 27, 2015 | By Min-Seok Pang, Ph.D.

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

Published April 24, 2015 | By Min-Seok Pang, Ph.D.

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?

Published April 22, 2015 | By Min-Seok Pang, Ph.D.

Published April 20, 2015 | By Min-Seok Pang, Ph.D.

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?

Published April 17, 2015 | By Min-Seok Pang, Ph.D.

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?

Published April 15, 2015 | By Min-Seok Pang, Ph.D.

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?

Published April 13, 2015 | By Min-Seok Pang, Ph.D.

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?

Published April 10, 2015 | By Min-Seok Pang, Ph.D.

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?

Published April 8, 2015 | By Min-Seok Pang, Ph.D.

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?

Published April 1, 2015 | By Min-Seok Pang, Ph.D.

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?