Managing Talent
1. What should Gordon and Barton do about the Ivan Korsky situation? What might Barton be able to learn from the way jazz ensembles work about how to manage top-notch IT talent?
2. Should Barton seek a technological way of monitoring what his employees are doing and/or should Barton reorganize the IT function so that the best talent is in a central shared services organization available to the entire organization (rather than only a particular business unit)? What are the pros and cons of such an arrangement?
3. Select a company and develop a problem/opportunity statement and proposed solution in the area of managing talent. To help get started and improve learning, connect the response to something you may already know from your other courses, career path knowledge, or current events.