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Business And Technology

Subject : business-skills
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1. 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






2. What does COO stands for






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






4. What Concerns CIOs the most?






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






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






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






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






9. What does CIO stands for






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






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






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


13. 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






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






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






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






17. Means Garbage In Garbage OUt






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






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. Effective communication between business personnel and IT personnel






21. 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.






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






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






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






25. The leading cause of downtime






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






27. The 4 strategic initiatives






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






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






30. Baseline values the system seesks to attain






31. Website success solely is measure by






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






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






35. What is on the mind of the CEO






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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






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






45. Consists of all parties involved - directly or indirectly - in the procurement of a poduct or raw materials






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






47. 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






48. What would be the Greatest Benefits for Information Technology?






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






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