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Information Systems

Subjects : engineering, it-skills
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1. Infrastructure - information - applications - processes - strategy






2. Web- oriented architecture






3. Self- contained functional units






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






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






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






7. Includes data - technology - people - and processes






8. Inputs/outputs and tasks






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






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






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






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






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






14. Information and organizational strategy must also change






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

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






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






18. Assets or capabilities






19. 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






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






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

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22. On a process flow diagram - a circle represents a...






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






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






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

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26. ERPs make information available to...






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






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






29. Enterprise systems usually require...






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. R/3 (made by SAP)






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






40. ERP II makes information available to...






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






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






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






44. Ease of imitation - substitution - transfer






45. Centralization (because they focus on integration)






46. Total quality management






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

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






49. Systems that handle automated processes within and across organizations






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







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