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Information Systems

Subjects : engineering, it-skills
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1. Information and organizational strategy must also change






2. Data in context (i.e. with relevance and purpose)






3. Software systems developed in the mid-90s which were not integrated across organizations and could not interface well with each other






4. Software program that requests and receives data and instructions from another






5. The plan an organization uses in providing information services






6. R/3 (made by SAP)






7. Description of goals of an organization - how these goals are realized by business processes - and how these business processes can be better served through technology






8. Includes data - technology - people - and processes






9. Includes organization's design and the choices it makes to define - set up - coordinate - and control its work processes






10. Plan of where a business seeks to go and how it plans to get there






11. Awaking a sleeping giant - bad timing - poor implementation - failing to deliver what customers want - breaking the law






12. Clear and compelling statement of organization's purpose and what makes it unique






13. Relates business strategy with IS and organizational strategy; business strategy at the top - organizational and information strategy at the base






14. Allows functional areas of an organization to share information easily






15. Strategy --> architecture --> infrastructure






16. Comprehensive software packages that incorporate all modules needed to run the operations of a business






17. Strategy where organization aims to be the lowest- cost producer in the marketplace






18. Suggests that speed and aggressiveness of the moves and countermoves create an environment in which advantages are rapidly created and eroded






19. Coordinated set of actions to fulfill objectives - purposes - and goals






20. Enterprise resource planning






21. Improves the way a company finds raw components it needs to make a product or service - manufactures that product or service - and delivers it to customers






22. Inputs/outputs - tasks - decisions - metrics - 'swim lanes'






23. Radical way of transforming business processes






24. Enterprise systems reflect industry best practices for generic business processes






25. Assets or capabilities






26. Architecture where one software program (the client) requests and receives data and instructions from another software program (the server); computers running client programs usually require less computing resources






27. On a process flow diagram - a circle represents a...






28. An IT capability makes it possible for the firm to use its IT assets effectively






29. Highlights how IS add value to the primary and support activities of a firm's internal operations - customers - and supply chain






30. Enterprise systems






31. Hardware - software - professional services - internal staff costs






32. Resource- based focuses on internal factors in an organization - focused on external factors in the industry

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33. Inter- organizational relationship that affords one or more companies in the relationship a strategic advantage






34. Holds that the timing of the use of specialized knowledge can create a differentiation advantage as long as the knowledge remains unique






35. Inputs/outputs and tasks






36. The basic human tendency to make specific inferences on the basis of a general impression (EX: assuming that because a business is successful - it has good management-- ignoring other forces at work)






37. Technology - people - and processes that an organization uses to manage information






38. Threat of new entrants - bargaining power of buyers - threat of substitute products or services - bargaining power of suppliers - rivalry among existing competitors

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39. Finance - operations - accounting - marketing - administration (functions or silos in a business)






40. Ease of imitation - substitution - transfer






41. On a process flow diagram - a square represents a...






42. Web- oriented architecture






43. Supply chain management






44. The open group architectural framework; designed to translate strategy into architecture and then into a detailed infrastructure using standardized Architecture Development Methodology






45. Strategy where companies cooperate and compete at the same time with companies in its value net






46. The unique set of features of a company and its products that are perceived by the target market as significant and superior to the competition






47. Organizations restructure common business processes to consolidate services like IT - human resources - finance






48. Interrelated set of activities and tasks that turns inputs into outputs






49. Negotiation - commitment - execution - assessment

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50. Manage fragmentation of information across an organization