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Business And Technology

Subject : business-skills
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1. Mostly misuse by persons inside or outside an organization.






2. Website success solely is measure by






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






4. 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.






5. 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.






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






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






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






9. What is the function of CIO?






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






11. 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






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






13. What does CEO stands for






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






15. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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






26. What does CFO stands for






27. What does COO stands for






28. 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






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






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






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






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






33. Effective communication between business personnel and IT personnel






34. 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






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






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






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






38. 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






39. The 4 strategic initiatives






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






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






42. Means Garbage In Garbage OUt






43. Baseline values the system seesks to attain






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






45. The leading cause of downtime






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






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






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






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






50. What is on the mind of the CEO