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department and the IS department personnel in the ID-4. Suppose you are the CISO for a Fortune 500 company
prospective acquisition. Prepare that summary. with offices in 15 different countries. Your company has
substantial intellectual property to protect, and the CEO
ID-3. Using the data in this module as well as in Chapter 7, sum-
marize the strengths and weaknesses of functional systems, has suggested that the company move part of its R&D
CRM, and ERP. How do the advantages and disadvantages offshore to reduce costs. Using the information from
of each change in an international setting? For your answer, Q4, describe the potential threats that might arise from
create a table with strength and weakness columns and moving R&D to an offshore site.
with one row for each of the four systems types.

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ID-5. Suppose that you are a junior member of a newly formed, international team
that will meet regularly for the next year. You have team members in Europe,
North and South America, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, and India.
All of your team meetings will be virtual; some will be synchronous, but many
will be asynchronous. The team leader has asked you to help prepare the
environment for these meetings. In particular, he asked you to summarize the
challenges that will occur in conducting these team meetings. He also wants
you to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the following collaboration
tools: email, Google Drive, Google+, Windows OneDrive, Microsoft
SharePoint, WebEx, and Microsoft Office 365. Use Figure ID-9, the discussion
in Q5, and information in Chapter 2 to prepare your assessment.
ID-6. Assume you are Lucas at AllRoad. Using your knowledge from Q5, write
a one-page memo to Kelly explaining what needs to be done to set
up information systems in a new European office. State and justify any
assumptions you make.