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Information Systems

Subjects : engineering, it-skills
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1. 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.)






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






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






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






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






6. Infrastructure - information - applications - processes - strategy






7. Incremental way of transforming business processes






8. Highlights how IS add value to the primary and support activities of a firm's internal operations - customers - and supply chain






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






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






11. Supply chain management






12. Customer relationship management






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






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






15. 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)






16. Enterprise systems usually require...






17. Ease of imitation - substitution - transfer






18. Service- oriented architecture






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






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






21. Business process management






22. For changes in organizational structure - expensive - risky






23. Total quality management






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






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






26. Radical way of transforming business processes






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






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






29. 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






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






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

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






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






34. R/3 (made by SAP)






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






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. Negotiation - commitment - execution - assessment

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






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






40. Strategy --> architecture --> infrastructure






41. Enterprise systems






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






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






44. Enterprise systems reflect industry best practices for generic business processes






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






46. Systems that handle automated processes within and across organizations






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






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






49. Inputs/outputs and tasks






50. An organization's hardware - operating systems - databases - telecommunications - legacy systems