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Business And Technology

Subject : business-skills
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1. 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.






2. The leading cause of downtime






3. What is the function of CIO?






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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






11. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. 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






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






26. Baseline values the system seesks to attain






27. Means Garbage In Garbage OUt






28. What does CFO stands for






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

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






31. What does CEO stands for






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






33. 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






34. What is on the mind of the CEO






35. The 4 strategic initiatives






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






38. What Concerns CIOs the most?






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






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






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






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






44. 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






45. 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






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






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






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






49. What does CIO stands for






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