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Information Systems

Subjects : engineering, it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. Maintains that competitive advantage comes from the information resources of the firm; resources enable a firm to attain and sustain competitive advantage






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






4. An organization's hardware - operating systems - databases - telecommunications - legacy systems






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






6. Web- oriented architecture






7. Integration - packages - best practices - some assembly required - evolving






8. Strategy where organization qualifies its product or service in a way that allows it to appear unique in the marketplace






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






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






11. Fewer steps - fewer branches - fewer loops - and fewer decisions






12. Technical skills - IT management skills - relationship skills






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






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






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






16. 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)






17. Building components of software in a modular way; an architecture where business processes are built on a network - different parts of business functionality reside on different parts of the network - the parts can be combined and reused to create ap






18. Negotiation - commitment - execution - assessment


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






20. Supply chain management






21. Incremental way of transforming business processes






22. Assets or capabilities






23. Incremental approach to changing business processes (a management program that seeks to improve the quality of process outputs by identifying and removing the causes of defects and variation in the various processes.)






24. Includes a company - its competitors - complementors - customers - suppliers






25. Speed and aggressive moves and coutermoves by a firm create competitive advantages


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






27. Translates strategy into infrastructure - creating plans for the implementation






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






29. Systems that handle automated processes within and across organizations






30. Businesses have to conform to the system - sometimes have to redesign processes to fit system






31. Radical way of transforming business processes






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






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






34. When all the activities are in a predetermined order (not when steps vary in a process)






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






36. The plan an organization uses in providing information services






37. Can have coopetition w/o strategic alliance - can have strategic alliance w/o coopetition






38. Business strategy should not be affected because it is at a more abstract level






39. Infrastructure - information - applications - processes - strategy






40. Because they are complex and usually need continual modification to meet the organizations needs






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






42. Enterprise systems






43. Includes business - organizational - and information strategy; business strategy is at the top of the triangle because it guides the others






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






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






46. Organizational - control - and cultural variables used by decision makers to effect changes in their organization






47. Centralization (because they focus on integration)






48. Peer- to- peer






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


50. Company who offers a complementary product (e.g. milk complements cereal)