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Case Option 1: WEB 2.0

As the manager of a small company, you arrive early in the office to prepare for a meeting with your IT team. It has become increasingly clear to you that technology is changing and fastand many of the old IT tools your company still uses are becoming obsolete. Add to that your growing salesforce of 20-somethings who find these tools unfamiliar and burdensome. They've been begging you to allow them to use the Web 2.0 tools on their smartphones. So you called this meeting to explore the possibilities with your IT team.

Since you just bought your smartphone two weeks ago, you had to learn about the variety of Web 2.0 tools available and brush up on their costs and benefits. Social networking tools allow people to build customized public (or private) profile and update it instantly. Internet-based applications like word processing, spreadsheets, and calendars take the software off your computer so you can create, manipulate, and use documents anytime, anywhere. And cloud computing enables information of all sorts to be stored not on individual devices that have to be synched or connected to a network but in a digital "cloud" that can be accessed from your desktop, your laptop, or your smartphone anywhere, anytime.

"This has a lot of potential," you think. No more "Oops, I left that at the office" ruining a sales call, since documents can be accessed anywhere. You can keep up with your sales reps wherever they areand they can keep in touch with you, too. If they have questions in the middle of a sales call, they can get the information they need to clinch the deal on the spot, since informationor the experts who can supply itare instantly accessible. Anyone in the company can access the most recent performance statistics, find out how many items are left in inventory, or contact a colleague instantly. And Web 2.0 tools even offer new ways to reach out to potential customers. Your tennis partner, whose company has already begun adopting these tools, told you, "We're a lot less mired in technology. Employees say they can spend less time dealing with the IT system and more time actually thinking about their work."

You know that Web 2.0 has its disadvantages, though. It won't be cheap to adopt a cloud- based system, equip employees with the devices they'll need to access it, and train them how to use it. Also, tech companies are only beginning to integrate social networking, Internet-based software, and cloud computing into a single system, so there are still bugs. Maybe it's worth adopting one or two tools and moving toward Web 2.0 gradually. It also means your IT team will have less control over the flow of information, and you're definitely concerned about security. Still, the advantages are significant, and adopting a system like this could transform your business.

Questions]

Please apply the knowledge you learned from the course, especially the content of decision making (chapter 7), organization change (chapter 10), groups and teams (chapter 13), and leadership (chapter 14) to answer the following questions:

1. What decision criteria should you consider as you decide how to transition to Web 2.0?

How would you weight those criteria? Which would be most important to you?

2. Generate a list of possible courses of action you could take. Evaluate those options

based on your decision criteria.

3. How might you use groups to help you make this decision? Think about how you would

involve your IT team. But also: How would you involve employees?

4. What would be a maximal decision? In other words, what is the optimal solution? Under

what circumstances would you satisfice? What is a "good enough" alternative to the optimal solution?

Source: S. Hamm, "Cloud Computing's Big Bang for Business," BusinessWeek, 15 June 2009, 42-48.

case analysis report to show what you have learned in this course. The length of the output is about three pages plus necessary exhibits and references.