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Information Systems

Subjects : engineering, it-skills
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1. Framework for understanding the design of an organization; links together business processes - values & beliefs - management control systems - and tasks & structures






2. Self- contained functional units






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






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






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






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






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






9. 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)






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






11. Customer relationship management






12. Information and organizational strategy must also change






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

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14. Technical skills - IT management skills - relationship skills






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






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






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






18. Incremental way of transforming business processes






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






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






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






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






23. The plan an organization uses in providing information services






24. Business process management






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






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






27. 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)






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






29. 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






30. Systems that handle automated processes within and across organizations






31. Service- oriented architecture






32. Inputs/outputs - tasks - decisions - metrics - 'swim lanes'






33. 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






34. For changes in organizational structure - expensive - risky






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






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






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






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






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






40. Strategy --> architecture --> infrastructure






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






42. R/3 (made by SAP)






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






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






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

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






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






48. Negotiation - commitment - execution - assessment

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49. Assets or capabilities






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