What should Barton and Gordon do about the Ivan Korsky problem?
How might IT managers best measure and compare the output of diverse
employees? Do you think this measurement should impact the kind of “deal”
(contract) that IVK makes with talented employees such as Korsky?
What other kinds of challenges are involved when acquiring, training, and
managing IT talent?
What kind of restructuring or “tuning” does an IT organization require over
time? How should you decide whether to centralize talent in a shared organization or decentralize it into distributed groups?
What might Barton learn from Cho’s explanation of how a jazz ensemble works?