Course: Business Information System See the movie “Moneyball”. Then answer some questions. All organizations have a ‘business model’. In sports the model can be broadly described as “Hire good...

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Course: Business Information System
See the movie “Moneyball”. Then answer some questions.

  1. All organizations have a ‘business model’. In sports the model can be broadly described as “Hire good athletes, win lots of games, sell all the tickets, and get to the playoffs”. Pretty simple, really. All the other teams are able to, anyway (ok, all of them don’t get to the playoffs—after all, this is MLB, not the NBA). Why can’t Oakland do it?

  2. When your business model is broken (like Oakland’s), what choices does the organization have short of going out of business?

  3. The A’s couldn’t change the business model. That is, you still have to sell out the house and make the playoffs to maximize revenue, and wins are what it takes to do that (except for the Cubs, of course). What/how did Oakland modify the model to maintain its viability (i.e., as a business organization)?

  4. What were some of the obstacles to adopting this modified approach?

  5. This is a great example of using technology to increase business value. In your view, did it increase effectiveness, or did it increase efficiency? Why?


Ten point bonus question (aka: the Moneyball Powerball):

  1. What are some universal lessons regarding technology, change and ‘new’ thinking that you could infer from this example?



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Course: Business Information System See the movie “Moneyball”. Then answer some questions. All organizations have a ‘business model’. In sports the model can be broadly described as “Hire good athletes, win lots of games, sell all the tickets, and get to the playoffs”. Pretty simple, really. All the other teams are able to, anyway (ok, all of them don’t get to the playoffs—after all, this is MLB, not the NBA). Why can’t Oakland do it? When your business model is broken (like Oakland’s), what choices does the organization have short of going out of business? The A’s couldn’t change the business model. That is, you still have to sell out the house and make the playoffs to maximize revenue, and wins are what it takes to do that (except for the Cubs, of course). What/how did Oakland modify the model to maintain its viability (i.e., as a business organization)? What were some of the obstacles to adopting this modified approach? This is a great example of using technology to increase business value. In your view, did it increase effectiveness, or did it increase efficiency? Why? Ten point bonus question (aka: the Moneyball Powerball): What are some universal lessons regarding technology, change and ‘new’ thinking that you could infer from this example? One page. Created with an evaluation copy of Aspose.Words. To discover the full versions of our APIs please visit: https://products.aspose.com/words/



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Answer To: Course: Business Information System See the movie “Moneyball”. Then answer some questions. All...

David answered on Dec 22 2021
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1. Oakland can’t do it because of the financial constrain. They can hire good athletes but then other clubs were capable enough to attract those athletes by making better pay offers whereas Oakland would not be able to retain them by negotiating with a better offering.
2. Going out of business would be the last option, if the business model is broken one has to perform few tweaking, that could also be an innovation out of the previous business model & has to implement them with conviction so as to extract the best out of it.
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