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This course covers information technology developments and global-sourcing strategies. Specifically, it includes two interrelated topics. First, it covers strategic planning models in which it examines business and corporate strategies which require students to assume the role of a general manager or chief technology officer (CTO) where they have to cope with tremendous complexity, uncertainty, and inadequate information to make strategic decisions. Second, this course covers how advances in telecommunication technology along with the process of global collaboration and value creation enable the creation and delivery of new products and services. The course also explores various country evaluations and risk analyses techniques, and the opportunities and threats that business organizations face as a result of these business and technological trends. Finally, this course examines various global-sourcing and collaborations strategies, the role of standardization in global supply chains integration, and how technology influences new forms of value creation such as public-private partnerships and hybrid entrepreneurial forms in developing economies and how their businesses can develop capabilities, capacities, and competencies required to participate in global collaboration and value creation networks.