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Business And Technology

Subject : business-skills
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1. The plans and goals of the IT department must align with the plans and goals of the organization.






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






3. Means Garbage In Garbage OUt






4. Enables an organizatin to generate efficiencies within steps by automating and improving the information flows Wal-art and Procter&Gamble(P&G) implemented a tremedously successful SCM system. the system linked Wal-Mar's distribution centers directly






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






6. 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.






7. 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






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






9. The 4 strategic initiatives






10. Baseline values the system seesks to attain






11. Reward customers based on th amount of business they do with a particuar organization.






12. What is on the mind of the CEO






13. 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






14. What does COO stands for






15. What does CFO stands for






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






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

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18. 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






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






20. What does CEO stands for






21. What Concerns CIOs the most?






22. Information-Functional - Information-sharing - Information-inquiring - and Information-discovery






23. Costs that can make customers relcutant to switch to another product or service






24. Raw facts that describe the characteristics of an event/information knowledge/business intelligent and competative advantage






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






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






27. What does CIO stands for






28. What is the function of CIO?






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






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






31. 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






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






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






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






35. Is the acauisition and analysis of evenst and trends in the environment external to an organization.






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






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






38. The leading cause of downtime






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






40. Website success solely is measure by






41. Occurs when an organization can significantl impact its marketshare by being first to market with a competitive advantage.






42. Is a field concrned with te use of technology in managing and processing information.It consist of hardware - software and telecommunication






43. Is assessed by th supplier's ability to directly impact the price they are charging for supplies(including materials - labor - and services)






44. Effective communication between business personnel and IT personnel






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






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






47. 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






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






49. Is responsible for ensuring the throughput - speed - accuracy - availability - and reliability of an organization information.






50. 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.