Problem
Use your critical-thinking skills, using the 5 step decision making process (develop problem statement, identify alternatives, choose alternatives, implement decision, evaluate results) and compose your response for the below scenario, should be at least one page in length.
You have been asked by the CEO of your software organization to hire and manage a small group of software developers in an attempt to reverse engineer the latest release of the software by your leading competitor. The goal of the group will be to identify features that could be implemented into the next few releases of your firm's software. Would you consider hiring software developers from your competitors to start this group? Why or why not? What sort of legal and/or ethical questions might be raised by this reverse engineering effort?