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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. Website success solely is measure by






3. 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






4. What does CEO stands for






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






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






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






8. The leading cause of downtime






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. The 4 strategic initiatives






17. 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






18. What Concerns CIOs the most?






19. 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






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






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






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






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


24. Effective communication between business personnel and IT personnel






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






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






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






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






29. Baseline values the system seesks to attain






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






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






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






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






34. What does COO stands for






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






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






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






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






39. What is on the mind of the CEO






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






41. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. What does CIO stands for






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