問5
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複数の企業がアライアンスによって連携して活動する際に, 軽減が期待できるリスクとして, 最も適切なものはどれか。
平成21年度 秋期 ITパスポート試験 問5
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問 5
- ア
正解 An alliance (inter-company partnership) is a form of cooperation in which several companies bring together management resources such as capital, technology, sales channels, and personnel, and advance a business together on an equal footing. If a company takes on a new business or a large development project alone, it must bear the entire investment itself, and if the project fails it alone absorbs the loss. With an alliance, the investment amount and the risk of loss can be shared among the participating companies, and by making use of a partner's existing technology, facilities, and sales network the investment itself can be reduced. In other words, what an alliance can be expected to reduce directly is the business investment risk, so the correct answer is ア.
Incorrectイ
Information leakage risk is not reduced by a partnership; it is a risk that actually increases. In an alliance a company must share its own technical information, customer information, and know-how with the partner company, so there are more routes by which information leaves the company. That is exactly why a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) is signed and the scope of disclosure is limited when forming an alliance.
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Talent outflow risk is likewise a risk that tends to increase with a partnership. Once people from both sides interact through a joint project, the chance that the company's own capable engineers are hired away by the partner rises. An alliance is a mechanism for sharing the investment burden, not a mechanism for improving the retention of one's own employees.
Incorrectエ
Fraud risk is lowered by internal control (segregation of duties, approval procedures, audits, and so on) that prevents embezzlement or falsified accounts by managers and employees; it belongs to a different area from inter-company alliances. If anything, as more organizations and transactions are involved, some parts become harder to control and fraud risk can rise.
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- The purpose of an alliance (strategic partnership) — several companies pool their management resources and share burdens such as development costs and capital investment, as well as the losses if the venture fails, thereby lowering business investment risk and achieving what one company alone could not.
- Distinguish the risks that decrease from those that increase in a partnership — what decreases are investment and cost related risks. Conversely, risks such as information leakage and talent outflow rise because contact with outside parties increases, so measures such as an NDA and limiting the scope of disclosure are needed.
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