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1. 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
Management Information System (MIS)
Chief information officer
Rivalry among existing competitors
Comptevive advantage
2. Is high when there are many alternatives to a product or service and low when there are few alternative from which to choose.
One of the greatest challenges today
Threat of substitute products or services
Switching costs
Chief knowldedge officer (CKO)
3. The Benefits and and Magnitude of Change the Process Change Spectrum what would be th small change
Automate
Michael Porter
Supplier power
Chief technology offiicer(CTO)
4. What is on the mind of the CEO
People
G I G O
Enhance Customer Satisfaction
Automate
5. What Concerns CIOs the most?
G I G O
Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
Enhancing customer satisfaction
Effeciveness IT metics
6. What information technology projects goals has the most value?
Management Information System (MIS)
Threat of new entrants
Software failure and human error
Reducing Cost/Improve Productivity
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
Information Technology (IT)
Chief privacy officer(CPO)
Chief security officer (CSO)
Customer Service
8. Is assessed analyzing the ability of buyers to directly impact the price they are willing to pay for an item.
Benchmarks
Buyer power
Efficiency IT metrics
Usability
9. Is the acauisition and analysis of evenst and trends in the environment external to an organization.
Michael Porter
Environmental scannig
Supply chain management(SCM)
Peter Drucker
10. 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.
Benchmarking
Enhancing customer satisfaction
Efficiency IT metrics
Chief knowldedge officer (CKO)
11. Measure the impact IT has on business processes and activities includin customer satisfaction - conversion rates - and sell through increases.
Effeciveness IT metics
Porters's Five Forces - the three generic strategies - and value chanin analysis to adopt new business strategies
Informaton
G I G O
12. A famous management guru - once stated that if you cannot measure it - you cannot manage it
SCM - CRM - ERP AND BPR
Organizatonal Informaion Cultures
Efficiency IT metrics
Peter Drucker
13. Is a product or service that an organization's customer place a greater value on than similar offerings from a competitor.
Peter Drucker
Amount of traffic
Supply chain
Comptevive advantage
14. Means Garbage In Garbage OUt
Chief technology offiicer(CTO)
Chief Financial Officer
Enhance Customer Satisfaction
G I G O
15. Effective communication between business personnel and IT personnel
Product differentiation
Balanced scorecard
Informaton
One of the greatest challenges today
16. Is responsible for collecting - maintaining - and distributing the organization's knowledge. data has base adminstrator
Chief security officer (CSO)
Manage - leader - communicator
First-mover advantage
Chief knowldedge officer (CKO)
17. What does CIO stands for
Chief Information Officer
Amount of traffic
Chief privacy officer(CPO)
Enhancing customer satisfaction
18. The leading cause of downtime
The Five Forces Model
Chief privacy officer(CPO)
Customer Service
Software failure and human error
19. Involves he management of information flows between and among stages in a a supply chain to maximize total supply chain effectiveness an profitability.
Supply chain management(SCM)
Management Information System (MIS)
Informantion accuracy
Business proess
20. Measure the performance of the IT system itself includngthroughput - speed - and availability.
Security breach
Automate
Efficiency IT metrics
Information security
21. What is the function of CIO?
Customer Service
The basic component of supply chain management
Amount of traffic
Manage - leader - communicator
22. To remain sucessful - and organizatios should use what?
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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
Supply chain
Key performance indicators (KPIs)
Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
Manage - leader - communicator
24. What would be the Greatest Benefits for Information Technology?
Informantion accuracy
Customer Service
People
Automate
25. What does CEO stands for
Chief Executive officer
SSL
One of the greatest challenges today
Peter Drucker
26. Reward customers based on th amount of business they do with a particuar organization.
Chief technology offiicer(CTO)
Michael Porter
Loyalty programs
First-mover advantage
27. What does COO stands for
Value chain
Enhance Customer Satisfaction
Key performance indicators (KPIs)
Chief Operation Officer
28. The 4 strategic initiatives
One of the greatest challenges today
SCM - CRM - ERP AND BPR
Key performance indicators (KPIs)
Automate
29. Is data converted into a meaninfgul and useful context.
Information security
Informaton
Product differentiation
SCM - CRM - ERP AND BPR
30. Is responsible for ensuring the throughput - speed - accuracy - availability - and reliability of an organization information.
Management Information System (MIS)
SCM software
Automate
Chief technology offiicer(CTO)
31. A general name for the business function and academic discipline covering the application of people - technologies - and procedures.
Organizatonal Informaion Cultures
Information Technology (IT)
Management Information System (MIS)
Chief Financial Officer
32. Raw facts that describe the characteristics of an event/information knowledge/business intelligent and competative advantage
Informantion accuracy
Data
Loyalty programs
Informaton
33. Is a standardized set of activities that accoplish a specific task - such as processing a customer order.
SCM - CRM - ERP AND BPR
Value chain
Threat of substitute products or services
Business process
34. Is high when competition is fierce in a market and low when competition is more complacent
Michael Porter
Threat of new entrants
Rivalry among existing competitors
One of the greatest challenges today
35. Is the analysis and redesign of workflow wthin and between enteprises. ex. NetFlix - Redbox
Rivalry among existing competitors
Benchmarking
Enhancing customer satisfaction
Brusiness process reengineering (BPR)
36. Consists of all parties involved - directly or indirectly - in the procurement of a poduct or raw materials
Reducing Cost/Improve Productivity
Supply chain
Chief knowldedge officer (CKO)
Product differentiation
37. This approach views an organization as a series of processes - each of which adds value to the product or service for each customer.
Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
Amount of traffic
Value chain
Enhancing customer satisfaction
38. Information-Functional - Information-sharing - Information-inquiring - and Information-discovery
The basic component of supply chain management
SSL
Chief Operation Officer
Organizatonal Informaion Cultures
39. Is a managemen system - in addition to a measurement system - that enable organization to clarify their vision and strateby and translate them into action.
Automate
Balanced scorecard
First-mover advantage
Countefeit software
40. Out of the Relationship among People - Information - and Information Technology which one is the most important?
Benchmarks
Chief security officer (CSO)
G I G O
People
41. Most information security breaches result from people misusing an organizaton's information either Intentionally or Inadvertently. misuse of passwords
Chief privacy officer(CPO)
Threat of substitute products or services
Security breach
Information Discovery
42. Employees across departments are open to new insights about crises and radical changes and seek ways to create competitive advantages.
Information Discovery
Effeciveness IT metics
People
Loyalty programs
43. Website success solely is measure by
Business process
Informaton
Chief security officer (CSO)
Amount of traffic
44. 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
Supply chain
SSL
Efficiency IT metrics
Chief Information Officer
45. 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
Usability
SCM software
Chief security officer (CSO)
Informaton
46. Costs that can make customers relcutant to switch to another product or service
Value chain
Switching costs
SCM - CRM - ERP AND BPR
Customer Relationship management(CRM)
47. Is assessed by th supplier's ability to directly impact the price they are charging for supplies(including materials - labor - and services)
Supplier power
Informantion accuracy
SCM software
Brusiness process reengineering (BPR)
48. Is responsible for ensuing the ethical and legal use of informatio within an organization. these are lawyers
Chief privacy officer(CPO)
Chief Executive officer
Software failure and human error
Chief Operation Officer
49. Measures that are tied to busines drivers Metrics such as GPA(grade point average)
SSL
Loyalty programs
Key performance indicators (KPIs)
Organizatonal Informaion Cultures
50. Issuses Affected by Technology Advance: intellectual property - Copyright - fair use doctrine - pirated software and counterfeit software of these which is the worst?
Countefeit software
Chief Information Officer
Automate
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