MIS Module 3: The Global Web Based Platform

I.Time Frame:
June 15, 2015
3 Hours * 830 - 1130

II. Class Schedule
Course Code:
Course Title: M.I.S

III. Objectives
1. Define Terminologies
2.

IV. Subject Matter
The Global Web Based Platform
Reference:
Introduction to Information System by Turban
The World is Flat by  Friedman

V. Procedure
A. Introduction
1. Daily Routine
a. Checking of Attendance
b. Recap
c. Checking of Assignment

B. Pre-Discussion
1. Pre-Discussion
a. Pictionary

2. Vocabulary Building
a. Globalization

3. During Disussion
a. Engagement Activity
1. Why is The World Flat?
2. Describe the flatteners of the world.

1. Collapse of Berlin Wall--11/89: The event not only symbolized the end of the Cold war, it allowed people from other side of the wall to join the economic mainstream. (11/09/1989)
2. Netscape: Netscape and the Web broadened the audience for the Internet from its roots as a communications medium used primarily by 'early adopters and geeks' to something that made the Internet accessible to everyone from five-year-olds to eighty-five-year olds. (8/9/1995)
3. Work Flow Software: The ability of machines to talk to other machines with no humans involved. Friedman believes these first three forces have become a “crude foundation of a whole new global platform for collaboration.”
4. Uploading: Communities uploading and collaborating on online projects. Examples include open source software, blogs, and Wikipedia. Friedman considers the phenomenon "the most disruptive force of all."
5. Outsourcing: Friedman argues that outsourcing has allowed companies to split service and manufacturing activities into components, with each component performed in most efficient, cost-effective way.
6. Offshoring: Manufacturing's version of outsourcing.
7. Supply-Chaining: Friedman compares the modern retail supply chain to a river, and points to Wal-Mart as the best example of a company using technology to streamline item sales, distribution, and shipping.
8. Insourcing: Friedman uses UPS as a prime example for insourcing, in which the company's employees perform services--beyond shipping--for another company. For example, UPS itself repairs Toshiba computers on behalf of Toshiba. The work is done at the UPS hub, by UPS employees.
9. In-forming: Google and other search engines are the prime example. "Never before in the history of the planet have so many people-on their own-had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people", writes Friedman.
10. "The Steroids": Personal digital devices like mobile phones, iPods, personal digital assistants, instant messaging, and voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)

VI. Assessment/Evaluation
Flattener #1: The New Age of Creativity
7. What was the significance of the fall of the Berlin Wall on 11/9/89? 8. Why do you think Communism makes everyone “equally poor” and capitalism makes everyone “unequally rich?” 9. How does freedom have a flattening effect on societies? 10. What are the impact of common standards and the sharing of knowledge? Why is this more likely to happen under democratic capitalism than communism? Why is this worth unequal wealth? 11. Who brought down the wall? What does it matter who gets the credit

 Flattener #2: The New Age of Connectivity
12. What is the difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web? 13. What was the significance of Netscape? 14. What led to the fiber optic bubble and who did the bubble benefit and harm the most? Why is the overinvestment in fiber optic cable the gift that keeps on giving? 15. What was the “Apple-PC-Window flattening phase” and what did it do? What was the “Internet-email-browser phase” and what did it do?

 Flattener #3: Work Flow Software
16. What was the “first big breakthrough in work flow?” 17. What else was needed? Explain using the railroad analogy? 18. The new foundation created a new platform for what? (To be a leader tomorrow and today, this is a key skill)

 Flattener #4: Uploading
19. What is community developed software 20. What are examples of community developed answers? 21. What is blogging? 22. What is upload content?

Flattener #5: Outsourcing 23. What is the significance the significance of India’s seven Institutes of Technology? 24. Why and how did India benefit from the U.S.’s overinvestment in bandwidth? 25. How is outsourcing related to the success of entrepreneurs and venture capital firms?

Flattener #6: Offshoring 26. How is offshoring different for outsourcing? 27. What was the significance of China joining the World Trade Organizations in 2001? 28. What is China’s long-run strategy? 29. Is offshoring always a lose-lose proposition for the U.S. worker? Is it always a win-win proposition for the U.S. consumer? 30. What is holding China back?

Flattener #7: Supply-Chaining 31. What is supply-chaining, the “Wal-Mart Symphony?” 32. What are the two biggest challenges to developing a global supply chain? 33. What is the “coefficient of flatness?” 34. What three activities accounted for Wal-Mart’s success once it began purchasing directly from manufacturers? 35. What are Wal-Mart’s low prices derived from?

 Flattener #8: Insourcing 36. What is “insourcing,” who does it, and how is it distinct from “outsourcing?”

Flattener #9: In-forming 37. How is “in-forming” the analog to “uploading?” 38. Why is in-forming “enormously flattening” and “enormously frightening?”

Flattener #10: The Steroids 39. Computing: What does computing consist of? 40. Instant messaging and file sharing… 41. Making phone calls over the internet (VoIP) (IBASIS)… 42. Videoconferencing… 43. Computer graphics… 44. Wireless…

VII. Assignment