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Information Systems

Subjects : engineering, it-skills
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1. Ease of imitation - substitution - transfer






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






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






4. 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.)






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






6. R/3 (made by SAP)






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

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8. Centralization (because they focus on integration)






9. Radical way of transforming business processes






10. Service- oriented architecture






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






12. Something learned over time for the firm to create - produce - or offer its products






13. On a process flow diagram - a diamond represents a...






14. ERPs make information available to...






15. Enterprise systems usually require...






16. 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






17. Enterprise systems






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






19. The plan an organization uses in providing information services






20. Processes make services possible; processes have inputs and outputs - while service is a cycle (ongoing)






21. Customer relationship management






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






23. Strategy --> architecture --> infrastructure






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






25. Negotiation - commitment - execution - assessment

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






27. 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






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






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






30. Systems that handle automated processes within and across organizations






31. Infrastructure - information - applications - processes - strategy






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






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






34. Anything that can be used by a firm in its processes for creating - producing - and/or offering its products






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






36. Uses a large central computer that handles all the functionality of the system; common in legacy systems






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






38. Processes are horizontal across a corporation - many functional areas of the business will be involved in a process; functions are vertical silos in an organization (e.g. finance - operations - accounting - marketing - administration)






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






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






41. Manage fragmentation of information across an organization






42. Total quality management






43. 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






44. Information and organizational strategy must also change






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






46. 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






47. Assets or capabilities






48. Class of IT applications used to enable information flow within and between business processes






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






50. Enterprise resource planning







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