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Information Systems

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






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






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






4. 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






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






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






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






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






9. Peer- to- peer






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






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






12. Systems that handle automated processes within and across organizations






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


14. Negotiation - commitment - execution - assessment


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






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






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






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






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






20. Web- oriented architecture






21. ERP II makes information available to...






22. ERPs make information available to...






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






24. 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






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






26. Mainframe - client/server - SOA - P2P - WOA






27. Ease of imitation - substitution - transfer






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






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






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






31. 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.)






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






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






34. The plan an organization uses in providing information services






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






36. Enterprise resource planning






37. Enterprise systems usually require...






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






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






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






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






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






43. Self- contained functional units






44. Includes data - technology - people - and processes






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






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


47. 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






48. Incremental way of transforming business processes






49. Total quality management






50. Supply chain management