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Business And Technology

Subject : business-skills
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1. A famous management guru - once stated that if you cannot measure it - you cannot manage it






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






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






4. What is the function of CIO?






5. Is a standardized seet of activities that accomplish a specific task - such as processing a customer's order.






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






7. 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






8. What is on the mind of the CEO






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






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






11. What Concerns CIOs the most?






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






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






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






15. Baseline values the system seesks to attain






16. Is responsible for collecting - maintaining - and distributing the organization's knowledge. data has base adminstrator






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






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






19. Website success solely is measure by






20. What does CIO stands for






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






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






23. 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






24. 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.






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






26. Means Garbage In Garbage OUt






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






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






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






30. The 4 strategic initiatives






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






32. What does COO stands for






33. 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






34. 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






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






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






37. Effective communication between business personnel and IT personnel






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






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






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






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






42. 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.






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






44. What information technology projects goals has the most value?






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






46. The leading cause of downtime






47. What does CFO stands for






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






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






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