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Information Systems

Subjects : engineering, it-skills
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1. Activities designed to learn more about customers' needs and behaviors to develop stronger relationships with them and enhance their value chains






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






3. Infrastructure - information - applications - processes - strategy






4. For changes in organizational structure - expensive - risky






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

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






7. Customer relationship management






8. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. Manage fragmentation of information across an organization






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






17. Self- contained functional units






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






19. Assets or capabilities






20. 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






21. Supply chain management






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






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






24. 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






25. Centralization (because they focus on integration)






26. The situation in which a company's current and emerging business strategy is enabled - supported - and unconstrained by technology






27. The value of a network node to a person or organization in a network increases when others join the network






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






29. Ease of imitation - substitution - transfer






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






31. R/3 (made by SAP)






32. Everything that supports the flow and processing of information in an organization - including hardware - software - data and network components






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






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






35. Web- oriented architecture






36. Negotiation - commitment - execution - assessment

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






38. 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






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






40. Enterprise systems usually require...






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






42. Inputs/outputs and tasks






43. An end user will usually notice a reduction in the performance of a ______ before a _______






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

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45. Utilizes a large base of resources that allows organization to outlast competitors by practicing a differentiation strategy






46. ERP II makes information available to...






47. Incremental way of transforming business processes






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






49. Framework for understanding the design of an organization; links together business processes - values & beliefs - management control systems - and tasks & structures






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






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