The next morning at 8 o’clock, Kelvin called the meeting to order. The first person to address the group was the network design consultant, Susan Hamir. She reviewed the critical points from her earlier design report, going over the options it had presented and outlining the tradeoffs in those design choices. When she finished, she sat down and Kelvin addressed the group again: “We need to break the logjam on this design issue. We have all the right people in this room to make the right choice for the company. Now here are the questions I want us to consider over the next three hours.” Kelvin pressed the key on his PC to show a slide with a list of discussion questions on the projector screen.

Questions:

1. What questions do you think Kelvin should have included on his slide to start the discussion?

2. If the questions to be answered were broken down into two categories, they would be cost versus maintaining high security while keeping flexibility. Which is most important for SLS?