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Case Study 9

Prakash Khatri

Case Study 9-1:

1. Describe the IT governance system that was in place at the University of the Southeast using both decision rights and structure as the bases of governance.

2. The CIO wanted to implement a centralized IT governance system. As demonstrated in this case, what are the advantages of a centralized IT governance system? What are the disadvantages?

3. In your opinion, what assignment of decision rights would be best for University of the Southeast? Please explain.

Case Study 9-2:

1. What governance approach did John Deere appear to have adopted? Did it fit the profile of an “old” heavy industry player?

2. What difficulties do you think an “old” heavy industry player such as John Deere encountered internally when proposing to develop the MyJohnDeere platform?

3. What difficulties do you believe John Deere faced externally among the proposed users?

4. How do you think John Deere might have overcome those internal and external difficulties?

5. What other parties might have been interested in obtaining the information in John Deere’ s cloud? What might they have done with it?