Sunday, February 28, 2016

My Interview Subjects

The names of the two people you're scheduled to interview for Project 2

Patti Ota
Richard Boulger

The names of the organization(s) your interviewees work for, as well as their job titles

Patti Ota - Associate Professor of MIS, Eller School of Business
Richard Boulger - Lecturer in MIS, Eller School of Business

Any higher education degree that your interviewees hold and the names of the institutions that issued them

Patti Ota - Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Richard Boulger - MBA, University of Michigan, BS, University of California, Davis

How many years your interviewees have worked in the field professionally

Patti Ota has worked in the field for 34 years. Richard Boulger has worked in business for 38 years, beginning as a partner at Accenture.

If you can, provide photos or images of the two interviewees (identify them with captions), as well as hyperlinks to their professional website(s) or home page(s)
Patti Ota
Richard Boulger


















The date, time & location of your scheduled interview

Richard Boulger - Met February 22, 10AM at McClelland Hall
Patti Ota - Meeting rescheduled

A list of 8 to 12 interview questions (for each interviewee) that are written to specifically reflect the interviewee's background, position and publication history

Richard Boulger:

What was your experience at Accenture?
You teach students how to construct business briefs: Can you walk me through that process?
How do you adapt your distribution of information for different audiences?
What are the key elements of business communication?
What is your goal in every exchange of professional communication?
What is the difference between business presentation and public speech?
What is the "story arc" of a piece of business-related literature?
How do you improve clarity in business documents?

Patti Ota

You do a lot of work with diversity-related initiatives; can you share a bit about that?
Can you tell me a bit about your position as coordinator for the Eller Zipperman program?
You need to know the facts to make a decision: Where do you get this context?
You teach the Decision Making and Problem Solving for Daily Life course: how has MIS affected decision making and daily life?
What is object-oriented programming?
Your area of expertise is interpersonal communication: please outline steps towards effective communication.
Can you give me an example of how these steps are tweaked for interactions with large groups?
How does communication differ when it is text based?

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