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Business And Technology

Subject : business-skills
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1. What Concerns CIOs the most?






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






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






4. The leading cause of downtime






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






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






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






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






9. What is on the mind of the CEO






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. What does CEO stands for






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






13. What does CFO stands for






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






15. 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






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






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






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






19. What does CIO stands for






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






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






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






23. Effective communication between business personnel and IT personnel






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






25. What does COO stands for






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






27. 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






28. 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.






29. Website success solely is measure by






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






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






32. 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






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






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






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






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






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






38. Baseline values the system seesks to attain






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






40. 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






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






42. What is the function of CIO?






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






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






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






46. The 4 strategic initiatives






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






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


49. 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.






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