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Information Systems

Subjects : engineering, it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Inputs/outputs and tasks






2. 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






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






4. Incremental way of transforming business processes






5. Service- oriented architecture






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






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






8. Enterprise systems






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






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






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






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






13. Business process management






14. Self- contained functional units






15. 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.)






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






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






18. 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






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


20. Radical way of transforming business processes






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






22. Includes a company - its competitors - complementors - customers - suppliers






23. Strategy --> architecture --> infrastructure






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






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






26. Customer relationship management






27. Centralization (because they focus on integration)






28. Total quality management






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






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






31. Ease of imitation - substitution - transfer






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


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






34. For changes in organizational structure - expensive - risky






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






36. 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






37. Allows functional areas of an organization to share information easily






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






39. The plan an organization uses in providing information services






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






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






42. Enterprise systems usually require...






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






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






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






46. Web- oriented architecture






47. Tries to minimize risks and maximize benefits of change in an organization






48. 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)






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






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