MIS 5402 – Prof. Min-Seok Pang

Session 2-3 – IT and Your Career

Links to Jan 14 Video Clips

Recommended Readings and Debate presentation slides

IVK Incident Explanation – Richard Nornhold.pdf

IVK Debate – Disclosure – Shiva Smith.pdf

IVK Debate – Non-Disclosure – Eisha Moore.pdf

Break Industry’s Bottlenecks – Jennifer Rawding.pdf

Platforms and the New Rules of Strategy – Xiaotao Pu.pdf

The Great Decoupling – Poonam Nangalia.pdf

Sign-Up for Presentations and Participation for Jan 14

For Jan 14, we will need presenters and debaters as follows. Please sign up! It is a first-come-first-serve. A presenter or a debater will get a waiver for one reading brief and participation credits.

When signing up, please mention which article you’d like to present or which role you’d like to play. If you don’t mention it, your sign-up will not count.

Presentations of a Recommended Reading

Presentation of IT Adventures Ch. 10 and 11

  • I am looking for someone with technology smart who can translate technical terms and jargons in IT Adventures Ch 10 and 11 to the classmates with business smart.

Debaters

  • One debater who will argue that IVK should disclose the incidents in IT Adventures Ch 10. (I prefer someone who has experiences or backgrounds in legal.)
  • Another debater who will argue that IVK should NOT disclose the incidents. (I prefer someone with technology smart.)

Session #2-3 – IT and Your Career – In-Class Discussion Questions

  • What’s “jobless recovery”? Why is this happening?
  • Why has the median family income not been rising while GDP was growing rapidly for the past 20 years?
  • What’s “skill mismatch”? Why is this happening?
  • What kind of jobs are vulnerable to technology development?
  • What kind of jobs are immune to technology development?
  • What would you say to your children about the impact of technology on jobs?
  • What would you say to your kid’s school principal about it?
  • What would you say to President-Elect Trump about it?
  • What would you say to yourself about it?