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Information Systems

Subjects : engineering, it-skills
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1. Relates business strategy with IS and organizational strategy; business strategy at the top - organizational and information strategy at the base






2. An IT capability makes it possible for the firm to use its IT assets effectively






3. Technical skills - IT management skills - relationship skills






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






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






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






7. Strategy where organization limits its scope to a market segment and tailors its offerings to that group of customers using either cost or differentiation






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






9. Includes data - technology - people - and processes






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






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






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






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






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






15. 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






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






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






18. Business process re- engineering






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

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






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






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






23. Radical way of transforming business processes






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






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






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






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






28. Enterprise systems






29. Peer- to- peer






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






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






32. 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)






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






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

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






36. 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






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






38. Self- contained functional units






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






40. Service- oriented architecture






41. Total quality management






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






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






44. 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






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






46. Infrastructure - information - applications - processes - strategy






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






48. Inputs/outputs and tasks






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






50. 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)







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