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Business And Technology

Subject : business-skills
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1. The leading cause of downtime






2. The most Effectiveness IT Metrics. the ease with which people perform transactions and/or find informatin. A popular usability metric on the internet is degrees of feedom - which measures the number of clicks required to find desired infomation.






3. Website success solely is measure by






4. Means Garbage In Garbage OUt






5. Measure the impact IT has on business processes and activities includin customer satisfaction - conversion rates - and sell through increases.






6. Is a managemen system - in addition to a measurement system - that enable organization to clarify their vision and strateby and translate them into action.






7. Baseline values the system seesks to attain






8. What Concerns CIOs the most?






9. Most information security breaches result from people misusing an organizaton's information either Intentionally or Inadvertently. misuse of passwords






10. To remain sucessful - and organizatios should use what?


11. The Benefits and and Magnitude of Change the Process Change Spectrum what would be th small change






12. Out of the Relationship among People - Information - and Information Technology which one is the most important?






13. Is the analysis and redesign of workflow wthin and between enteprises. ex. NetFlix - Redbox






14. Is high when it is easy for new cdompetitors to enter a market and low when there are significant entry barriers to entering market.






15. A general name for the business function and academic discipline covering the application of people - technologies - and procedures.






16. Is a product or service that an organization's customer place a greater value on than similar offerings from a competitor.






17. Occurs whn a company develops unique differences in its products with th intenet t influence demand






18. What does CEO stands for






19. 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.






20. 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






21. This approach views an organization as a series of processes - each of which adds value to the product or service for each customer.






22. 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.






23. Is responsible for ensuing the ethical and legal use of informatio within an organization. these are lawyers






24. 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






25. Involves he management of information flows between and among stages in a a supply chain to maximize total supply chain effectiveness an profitability.






26. Involves maaging all aspect of a customer's relationship with an organization to increase customer loalty and retention and organization's profitabilty. CRM allow an organization to gain insights into customers' shopping and buying beaviors ir order






27. Is a standardized set of activities that accoplish a specific task - such as processing a customer order.






28. 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






29. Employees across departments are open to new insights about crises and radical changes and seek ways to create competitive advantages.






30. The plans and goals of the IT department must align with the plans and goals of the organization.






31. What does CIO stands for






32. Is high when competition is fierce in a market and low when competition is more complacent






33. What is on the mind of the CEO






34. The 4 strategic initiatives






35. Mostly misuse by persons inside or outside an organization.






36. What is the function of CIO?






37. Is assessed analyzing the ability of buyers to directly impact the price they are willing to pay for an item.






38. Effective communication between business personnel and IT personnel






39. Is data converted into a meaninfgul and useful context.






40. 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






41. Measures that are tied to busines drivers Metrics such as GPA(grade point average)






42. A university professor at Harvard Business School - identified four competitive forces that can hurt potential sales.






43. What does CFO stands for






44. Buyer power - supplier power - threat of substitute product or services - threat of new entrants - rivalry among existing competiors






45. What does COO stands for






46. Issuses Affected by Technology Advance: intellectual property - Copyright - fair use doctrine - pirated software and counterfeit software of these which is the worst?






47. Supply chain strategy - suply chain partners - supply chain operation - supply chain logistics






48. Is high when there are many alternatives to a product or service and low when there are few alternative from which to choose.






49. Measure the performance of the IT system itself includngthroughput - speed - and availability.






50. A famous management guru - once stated that if you cannot measure it - you cannot manage it