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November 29, 2006
An Interesting Ethics Discussion
Craig Peterson at Utah State recently described a class discussion involving ethics and IS:
"We had an interesting discussion in class today that seemed to drive home some of the ethics concepts I teach ....
"The situation presented today dealt with information availability regarding prices for 'Black Friday.' Information that has been leaked out to the public and available on many Websites such as www.bfads.net and slickdeals.net as well as others. We had a great discussion about how companies fall prey to employees releasing information, ad companies, printing companies, etc. Many of whom the retail company has little control over and difficultly determining where the leak occurred. We discussed why it was an issue for the retail locations and how this example could illustrate any kind of information leak.
"Students became engaged in the conversation because many of the products are items they are interested in purchasing and the prices are obviously very good. This discussion went into the possibility of companies leaking incorrect ads themselves so that competitors might have a false sense of prices and be caught off-guard. Again, students were very interested and we had one of our best discussions so far in the class...
"Just something that seemed to work well in our class today. Not sure it would be of benefit to others, but I throw it out there just the same."
Thanks, Craig for sending this along. Sure wish we would get more entries like this!
Posted by DavidK at November 29, 2006 06:07 PM | Permalink