Problem 1. Planning is a useless endeavor because developments in e-business and e-commerce and in the political, economic, and societal environments are moving too quickly nowadays. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Why?
Problem 2. What planning methods would you use to develop e-business and e-commerce strategies and applications for your own business? Explain your choices.
Problem 3. Why has prototyping become a popular way to develop business applications? What are prototyping's advantages and disadvantages?
Problem 4. What are the three most important factors you would use in evaluating computer hardware? Computer software? Explain why.
Problem 5. The IT function is notorious for being dynamic, and its leaders are no exception. Go online to research recent trends affecting the traditional roles of senior IT executives and how these roles are changing. Show your findings.
Problem 6. "In the future, the prevalence of IT in product offerings will blur the distinction between IT and other areas of the company, to the extent that the IT function will cease to exist as a separate entity." Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Why?
Problem 7. The scrum approach to project management has become quite popular in recent years. Go online and research other companies that are using it to organize their projects. Have those experiences been positive as well? what can you tell about how the approach works from the research? Summarize.
Problem 8. Would issues with IT projects be solved by making a business executive the ead of any projects involving IT?
Problem 9. If virtualization technology were to eventually allow end users to run any environment of their choice in the same device, does that mean the choice of computing platform (desktop, notebook, smartphone, windows, Linux, mac OS) becomes irrelevant?
Problem 10. Why are ERP upgrades so complex and expensive? What role does ERP customization, if any, play in this process? Go online and research other examples discussing ERP upgrades. Can you discern a pattern in what seems to be the major cost drivers of the upgrade process?
Problem 11. Place yourself in as a customer while an upgrade was being implemented. What, if anything, would you have done differently had the companies had told you that a major software upgrade would be happening soon? Should they have told you?