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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Mostly misuse by persons inside or outside an organization.
Information security
Threat of new entrants
One of the greatest challenges today
Switching costs
2. Effective communication between business personnel and IT personnel
Supply chain management(SCM)
Chief Information Officer
Data
One of the greatest challenges today
3. Is a field concrned with te use of technology in managing and processing information.It consist of hardware - software and telecommunication
Information Technology (IT)
Chief Financial Officer
First-mover advantage
Informantion accuracy
4. Information-Functional - Information-sharing - Information-inquiring - and Information-discovery
Management Information System (MIS)
Organizatonal Informaion Cultures
Automate
Benchmarking
5. To remain sucessful - and organizatios should use what?
6. Website success solely is measure by
Amount of traffic
The Five Forces Model
Environmental scannig
Chief Information Officer
7. Buyer power - supplier power - threat of substitute product or services - threat of new entrants - rivalry among existing competiors
Enhancing customer satisfaction
Benchmarks
The Five Forces Model
Automate
8. Issuses Affected by Technology Advance: intellectual property - Copyright - fair use doctrine - pirated software and counterfeit software of these which is the worst?
Countefeit software
The basic component of supply chain management
Supplier power
Business process
9. Is the acauisition and analysis of evenst and trends in the environment external to an organization.
The Five Forces Model
Software failure and human error
G I G O
Environmental scannig
10. What is the function of CIO?
Manage - leader - communicator
Buyer power
First-mover advantage
Management Information System (MIS)
11. What would be the Greatest Benefits for Information Technology?
Software failure and human error
Customer Service
Brusiness process reengineering (BPR)
SCM - CRM - ERP AND BPR
12. Is responsible for ensuring the throughput - speed - accuracy - availability - and reliability of an organization information.
Information Discovery
Buyer power
Chief technology offiicer(CTO)
Enhancing customer satisfaction
13. The plans and goals of the IT department must align with the plans and goals of the organization.
Threat of new entrants
Business is always #1
Data
Chief privacy officer(CPO)
14. A famous management guru - once stated that if you cannot measure it - you cannot manage it
Amount of traffic
People
Manage - leader - communicator
Peter Drucker
15. What does CEO stands for
Balanced scorecard
Loyalty programs
Information security
Chief Executive officer
16. Means Garbage In Garbage OUt
G I G O
Loyalty programs
Chief Executive officer
Data
17. Is high when it is easy for new cdompetitors to enter a market and low when there are significant entry barriers to entering market.
The basic component of supply chain management
Business process
Amount of traffic
Threat of new entrants
18. Is data converted into a meaninfgul and useful context.
G I G O
Michael Porter
Informaton
Loyalty programs
19. 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
SSL
Comptevive advantage
Effeciveness IT metics
One of the greatest challenges today
20. Measure the impact IT has on business processes and activities includin customer satisfaction - conversion rates - and sell through increases.
Effeciveness IT metics
Key performance indicators (KPIs)
Security breach
Manage - leader - communicator
21. Involves he management of information flows between and among stages in a a supply chain to maximize total supply chain effectiveness an profitability.
Key performance indicators (KPIs)
SCM - CRM - ERP AND BPR
Informaton
Supply chain management(SCM)
22. The leading cause of downtime
Chief information officer
The Five Forces Model
People
Software failure and human error
23. Raw facts that describe the characteristics of an event/information knowledge/business intelligent and competative advantage
Business process
Buyer power
Data
Porters's Five Forces - the three generic strategies - and value chanin analysis to adopt new business strategies
24. Is responsible for ensuing the ethical and legal use of informatio within an organization. these are lawyers
Chief Information Officer
Chief privacy officer(CPO)
G I G O
Supply chain
25. 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
Amount of traffic
SCM software
Data
G I G O
26. Supply chain strategy - suply chain partners - supply chain operation - supply chain logistics
Automate
Informantion accuracy
Chief technology offiicer(CTO)
The basic component of supply chain management
27. Consists of all parties involved - directly or indirectly - in the procurement of a poduct or raw materials
Supply chain
Brusiness process reengineering (BPR)
Key performance indicators (KPIs)
The basic component of supply chain management
28. This approach views an organization as a series of processes - each of which adds value to the product or service for each customer.
Value chain
First-mover advantage
Data
Enhance Customer Satisfaction
29. 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.
Informantion accuracy
Value chain
Comptevive advantage
Threat of substitute products or services
30. What Concerns CIOs the most?
Management Information System (MIS)
G I G O
Balanced scorecard
Enhancing customer satisfaction
31. Most information security breaches result from people misusing an organizaton's information either Intentionally or Inadvertently. misuse of passwords
Security breach
Chief information officer
One of the greatest challenges today
Business proess
32. Is a product or service that an organization's customer place a greater value on than similar offerings from a competitor.
Loyalty programs
Environmental scannig
Comptevive advantage
Customer Relationship management(CRM)
33. What information technology projects goals has the most value?
Chief information officer
Organizatonal Informaion Cultures
Reducing Cost/Improve Productivity
Chief knowldedge officer (CKO)
34. What does CFO stands for
Value chain
Chief Financial Officer
Informantion accuracy
Chief Information Officer
35. Out of the Relationship among People - Information - and Information Technology which one is the most important?
People
Michael Porter
SSL
SCM - CRM - ERP AND BPR
36. What is on the mind of the CEO
Loyalty programs
Informantion accuracy
Enhance Customer Satisfaction
Brusiness process reengineering (BPR)
37. A university professor at Harvard Business School - identified four competitive forces that can hurt potential sales.
Environmental scannig
G I G O
The Five Forces Model
Michael Porter
38. Is high when competition is fierce in a market and low when competition is more complacent
Rivalry among existing competitors
Information Technology (IT)
Chief technology offiicer(CTO)
Customer Relationship management(CRM)
39. Costs that can make customers relcutant to switch to another product or service
Management Information System (MIS)
Switching costs
Customer Relationship management(CRM)
The basic component of supply chain management
40. Baseline values the system seesks to attain
Comptevive advantage
Benchmarks
Information Discovery
Business is always #1
41. 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.
Automate
Benchmarks
Usability
Security breach
42. Is a standardized set of activities that accoplish a specific task - such as processing a customer order.
Chief information officer
Organizatonal Informaion Cultures
Business process
Business proess
43. Is a standardized seet of activities that accomplish a specific task - such as processing a customer's order.
Benchmarking
Rivalry among existing competitors
Efficiency IT metrics
Business proess
44. Reward customers based on th amount of business they do with a particuar organization.
Enhance Customer Satisfaction
Buyer power
Supply chain management(SCM)
Loyalty programs
45. What does COO stands for
Chief Operation Officer
SSL
Efficiency IT metrics
The Five Forces Model
46. Measures that are tied to busines drivers Metrics such as GPA(grade point average)
Key performance indicators (KPIs)
Buyer power
Business proess
SCM software
47. A general name for the business function and academic discipline covering the application of people - technologies - and procedures.
First-mover advantage
Automate
Product differentiation
Management Information System (MIS)
48. Occurs when an organization can significantl impact its marketshare by being first to market with a competitive advantage.
First-mover advantage
SCM software
Chief Operation Officer
Usability
49. Is responsible for collecting - maintaining - and distributing the organization's knowledge. data has base adminstrator
Informantion accuracy
Business process
Efficiency IT metrics
Chief knowldedge officer (CKO)
50. The Benefits and and Magnitude of Change the Process Change Spectrum what would be th small change
Supply chain management(SCM)
Automate
Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
Organizatonal Informaion Cultures