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Information Systems

Subjects : engineering, it-skills
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1. An organization's hardware - operating systems - databases - telecommunications - legacy systems






2. 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






3. Activities designed to learn more about customers' needs and behaviors to develop stronger relationships with them and enhance their value chains






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






5. Web- oriented architecture






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






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






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






9. Radical way of transforming business processes






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






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






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






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






14. Strategy to goals to business requirements to architecture requirements to architecture to functional specifications to infrastructure specifications (hardware - software - data...)






15. Ease of imitation - substitution - transfer






16. Manage fragmentation of information across an organization






17. Negotiation - commitment - execution - assessment

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18. Strategy --> architecture --> infrastructure






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






20. Incremental way of transforming business processes






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






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






23. 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






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






25. ERPs make information available to...






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






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






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






29. 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






30. 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.)






31. Supply chain management






32. Software used to connect processes in one or more computers across a network






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






34. ERP II makes information available to...






35. Says competition stems from lowering the cost to perform activities and adding value so buyers will pay more






36. 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)






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






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






39. Enterprise resource planning






40. Service- oriented architecture






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






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






43. Peer- to- peer






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






45. Includes data - technology - people - and processes






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






47. Business process management






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






49. For changes in organizational structure - expensive - risky






50. Firms achieve competitive advantage through cost leadership - differentiation - or focus

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