IT 398/599 Topics in Global IT -- CDM Japan 2011
Assignment #3
(due: 11/27 (Sun))

Overview:

For this assignment, you prepare a few well thought and researched questions to ask during the company visits in Japan, for the purpose of making each company visit as effective as possible.  Then you will bring your questions and actually ask during the company visits.

Specifics:

  1. This is an individual assignment.  Everyone prepares his/her own questions.
  2. Formulate a total of 4 questions.
  3. A question may be targeted to one specific company or several companies (or the industry in Japan as a whole).  In either case, you must clearly indicate at which company (or companies) you want to ask the question.
    For example, you want to ask all gaming companies we/you'll be visiting about their strategies or experiences with developing mobile games (for the Japanese market), as well as games for Apple products.
  4. Each question must be accompanied by one or more paragraphs explaining how you came to be interested in the question (e.g. because this issue came up while you were researching for the individual paper; or you were intrigued by the presentation by one of the groups in the group paper assignment), or why you think it's a good questions to ask (e.g. based on the stats or critiques you read in magazines/online) .  

Deliverables:

A document which contains your questions, to be posted on COL.  The document must have:

Grading:

This assignment is worth 10 points. Complete and well-thought questions will receive at least 7 points. More credit will go to those that provide in-depth explanations of the questions.