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1. Is responsible for ensuing the ethical and legal use of informatio within an organization. these are lawyers
Information Technology (IT)
Balanced scorecard
Chief privacy officer(CPO)
Business proess
2. Buyer power - supplier power - threat of substitute product or services - threat of new entrants - rivalry among existing competiors
Customer Service
The Five Forces Model
Chief privacy officer(CPO)
Information Discovery
3. A process of continuously measuring system results - comparing those results to optimal system performance (benchmark values) - and identifiying steps and procedures to improve syste performance.
Benchmarking
Rivalry among existing competitors
Chief knowldedge officer (CKO)
Brusiness process reengineering (BPR)
4. Is responsible for ensuring the security of IT system and developing strategies and IT safeguards against attacks fom hacker and viruses. He is call the Network Administrator
Environmental scannig
Chief security officer (CSO)
Loyalty programs
Chief Executive officer
5. What does CEO stands for
First-mover advantage
Chief Executive officer
Efficiency IT metrics
Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
6. Is the analysis and redesign of workflow wthin and between enteprises. ex. NetFlix - Redbox
Chief privacy officer(CPO)
Enhancing customer satisfaction
Rivalry among existing competitors
Brusiness process reengineering (BPR)
7. What does COO stands for
Chief Operation Officer
Benchmarking
Management Information System (MIS)
Threat of substitute products or services
8. Is a standardized set of activities that accoplish a specific task - such as processing a customer order.
Customer Relationship management(CRM)
SCM - CRM - ERP AND BPR
Business process
Benchmarking
9. A university professor at Harvard Business School - identified four competitive forces that can hurt potential sales.
Chief technology offiicer(CTO)
Peter Drucker
Management Information System (MIS)
Michael Porter
10. Is a product or service that an organization's customer place a greater value on than similar offerings from a competitor.
Data
Business is always #1
Comptevive advantage
Supply chain management(SCM)
11. Integrates all departments and functins thoughout an organization into asingle IT system (or integrated set of IT systems) so that employees can ake decisions by viewing enterprisewide information on all businss operations.:is a software island of in
Manage - leader - communicator
Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
Threat of new entrants
Chief Operation Officer
12. Supply chain strategy - suply chain partners - supply chain operation - supply chain logistics
Security breach
Chief Executive officer
The basic component of supply chain management
Enhancing customer satisfaction
13. The most important type of Efficiency IT Metics; the extent to which a system generates the correct results when executing the same transaction numerous times.
Loyalty programs
Automate
Informantion accuracy
Michael Porter
14. Occurs when an organization can significantl impact its marketshare by being first to market with a competitive advantage.
First-mover advantage
SCM software
Information Discovery
Data
15. Website success solely is measure by
Product differentiation
Information Technology (IT)
Customer Service
Amount of traffic
16. Information-Functional - Information-sharing - Information-inquiring - and Information-discovery
Manage - leader - communicator
Organizatonal Informaion Cultures
Customer Service
Customer Relationship management(CRM)
17. Is assessed by th supplier's ability to directly impact the price they are charging for supplies(including materials - labor - and services)
Business process
Supplier power
The basic component of supply chain management
Product differentiation
18. Is responsible for collecting - maintaining - and distributing the organization's knowledge. data has base adminstrator
First-mover advantage
Chief knowldedge officer (CKO)
Security breach
Automate
19. Mostly misuse by persons inside or outside an organization.
Environmental scannig
Efficiency IT metrics
Information security
Customer Service
20. Is data converted into a meaninfgul and useful context.
Efficiency IT metrics
Chief Financial Officer
Informaton
Reducing Cost/Improve Productivity
21. What would be the Greatest Benefits for Information Technology?
Software failure and human error
Customer Service
Amount of traffic
Balanced scorecard
22. What Concerns CIOs the most?
Business proess
Customer Relationship management(CRM)
Enhancing customer satisfaction
Porters's Five Forces - the three generic strategies - and value chanin analysis to adopt new business strategies
23. Baseline values the system seesks to attain
Chief Information Officer
Informaton
Benchmarks
Brusiness process reengineering (BPR)
24. Raw facts that describe the characteristics of an event/information knowledge/business intelligent and competative advantage
Security breach
Supply chain management(SCM)
Data
Software failure and human error
25. A general name for the business function and academic discipline covering the application of people - technologies - and procedures.
Informantion accuracy
Software failure and human error
Business is always #1
Management Information System (MIS)
26. The plans and goals of the IT department must align with the plans and goals of the organization.
Business is always #1
Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
Benchmarks
The basic component of supply chain management
27. Is high when competition is fierce in a market and low when competition is more complacent
One of the greatest challenges today
Business process
Benchmarks
Rivalry among existing competitors
28. What information technology projects goals has the most value?
Supply chain
Reducing Cost/Improve Productivity
Data
SSL
29. Is high when there are many alternatives to a product or service and low when there are few alternative from which to choose.
SCM software
Product differentiation
Threat of substitute products or services
Enhancing customer satisfaction
30. What is on the mind of the CEO
Loyalty programs
Benchmarks
Business is always #1
Enhance Customer Satisfaction
31. Is responsible for (1) overseeing all uses of informatin technology (2) ensuring the strategic alignment of IT with business goals and objectives. CIO often reports directly to the CEO
Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
Chief information officer
Business is always #1
Informantion accuracy
32. Is a field concrned with te use of technology in managing and processing information.It consist of hardware - software and telecommunication
Business is always #1
Supplier power
Information Technology (IT)
Michael Porter
33. Secure Sockets Layers: donted by th lock symbol in the lower right corner of a browser window and or he "s" in https; SSL is 128 bits. 128bit=2^128
Chief technology offiicer(CTO)
Buyer power
Chief Financial Officer
SSL
34. Is a standardized seet of activities that accomplish a specific task - such as processing a customer's order.
Key performance indicators (KPIs)
Business proess
Supplier power
Enhance Customer Satisfaction
35. Effective communication between business personnel and IT personnel
Business process
One of the greatest challenges today
Threat of new entrants
Chief technology offiicer(CTO)
36. Out of the Relationship among People - Information - and Information Technology which one is the most important?
People
Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
Information Discovery
Peter Drucker
37. Is the acauisition and analysis of evenst and trends in the environment external to an organization.
Environmental scannig
Automate
Chief Operation Officer
Business proess
38. What does CIO stands for
Chief Information Officer
Environmental scannig
Supply chain
Effeciveness IT metics
39. Is high when it is easy for new cdompetitors to enter a market and low when there are significant entry barriers to entering market.
Effeciveness IT metics
Michael Porter
Threat of new entrants
G I G O
40. Measures that are tied to busines drivers Metrics such as GPA(grade point average)
Porters's Five Forces - the three generic strategies - and value chanin analysis to adopt new business strategies
Enhance Customer Satisfaction
Chief security officer (CSO)
Key performance indicators (KPIs)
41. Occurs whn a company develops unique differences in its products with th intenet t influence demand
The basic component of supply chain management
Reducing Cost/Improve Productivity
Peter Drucker
Product differentiation
42. Consists of all parties involved - directly or indirectly - in the procurement of a poduct or raw materials
SCM software
Supply chain
Enhancing customer satisfaction
Key performance indicators (KPIs)
43. Means Garbage In Garbage OUt
Chief Operation Officer
SCM - CRM - ERP AND BPR
Information security
G I G O
44. Costs that can make customers relcutant to switch to another product or service
Switching costs
Usability
Chief knowldedge officer (CKO)
Chief technology offiicer(CTO)
45. The Benefits and and Magnitude of Change the Process Change Spectrum what would be th small change
Supply chain management(SCM)
The basic component of supply chain management
Informaton
Automate
46. What does CFO stands for
Chief information officer
Chief Financial Officer
Usability
Brusiness process reengineering (BPR)
47. Issuses Affected by Technology Advance: intellectual property - Copyright - fair use doctrine - pirated software and counterfeit software of these which is the worst?
Threat of substitute products or services
Supplier power
Countefeit software
Information Discovery
48. Is responsible for ensuring the throughput - speed - accuracy - availability - and reliability of an organization information.
Efficiency IT metrics
Chief technology offiicer(CTO)
One of the greatest challenges today
Product differentiation
49. A famous management guru - once stated that if you cannot measure it - you cannot manage it
Switching costs
Peter Drucker
Informaton
Manage - leader - communicator
50. Involves he management of information flows between and among stages in a a supply chain to maximize total supply chain effectiveness an profitability.
Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
Environmental scannig
Benchmarking
Supply chain management(SCM)