Steven Cooper

Here is the answers for the question on Steven Cooper.
1. What is the first question the CEO asked him to answer?
The first question is that if they are spending too much money on IT.

2. Describe why this question is very hard to answer.
Because the amount of money spends are not intangible and visible so you can not see and perceive of the value of IT.

3. How to value information?
Steven said having the quantity of measure of information on balance sheet will be needed so we can measure the value.

4. Who owns your information?
I could not catch his words for this question.

5. Describe the information supply chain (information systems that are designed to manage information, collection àmanufacturing à distribution)

Capture data wether you generate internally or acquire as information from external source, you have to transform it in order to make it understandable and useable to the audience or customers. Internally you have to collaborate, cooperate, and interact external people.

6. What is the main problem the Red Cross IT team ran into?
The main problem is during the hurricane Katrina; Red Cross could not share the information externally.


7. What do you think about the job they did during the hurricane Katrina?
I think Red Cross still could have done little bit more job than he said.