1. Given the competition in educational industry and opportunities provided by information systems and technology (IST), CBPA @ CSUSB is interested in offering an online MBA program. You as a member of the consulting group for CBPA, what would you suggest? Please justify. Hint - Can you develop the business case for IST? Appendix 4-A and 4-B are useful.

If I were the member of the consulting group for CBPA, I would suggest CSUSB to put more resource in developing online MBA program. Online education is a very controversial issue. There are two opposite voices exist in the argument. In 450 HR professional survey, nearly 34% of the respondents believe that the online education of job seekers have the same value as traditional education; 55% of respondents would give job seekers with online degree and useful work experiences the interlinked treatment as the job seekers with traditional degree; only 15% of people think online education job seekers fit high position job.
Even there are some objectors, it would not stop the development of online education. Saint Leo University, which is a private catholic school in Florida, announced that it will spend 12 million dollars to build its business college, of which 400 million from Donald Tapia, who was an online BA and online MBA alumni. Although Donald Tapia has never been to the university until graduation ceremony, but he left a lasting imprint at Saint Leo campus.
Many people choose to take MBA classes after working for a few years now. For those people who have their own works and children, they may don’t have time to sit in classroom physically, online MBA could be an excellent choice because of its strong flexibility. Online MBA has more than one advantage, for example, it is much cheaper than traditional MBA, and its admission standard is more lenient that traditional MBA, these factors could be attractive to a