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Information Systems
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engineering
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it-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Suggests that speed and aggressiveness of the moves and countermoves create an environment in which advantages are rapidly created and eroded
hypercompetition
mainframe architecture
components of the high cost of enterprise systems
complementor
2. Includes organization's design and the choices it makes to define - set up - coordinate - and control its work processes
most widely used enterprise system
organizational strategy
components of the high cost of enterprise systems
general process for developing is...
3. The open group architectural framework; designed to translate strategy into architecture and then into a detailed infrastructure using standardized Architecture Development Methodology
configurations for IT architecture
shareholder value model
TOGAF
what enterprise systems replaced
4. Negotiation - commitment - execution - assessment
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5. Technical skills - IT management skills - relationship skills
External stakeholders
three major categories of IT capabilities
customer relationship management (CRM)
organizational change management
6. Finance - operations - accounting - marketing - administration (functions or silos in a business)
IT asset
organizational change management
hypercompetition
F.O.A.M.A.
7. Activities designed to learn more about customers' needs and behaviors to develop stronger relationships with them and enhance their value chains
Ring and Van de Ven's stages of a strategic alliance
service- oriented architecture
middleware...
customer relationship management (CRM)
8. 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
ES
more specific sub- steps in process from strategy to architecture to infrastructure
focus
client/server
9. Strategy where organization aims to be the lowest- cost producer in the marketplace
when information strategy changes
best practices (characteristic of ES)
cost leadership
organizational change management
10. Includes a company - its competitors - complementors - customers - suppliers
SCM
value net
enterprise architecture
middleware...
11. Radical way of transforming business processes
value chain
SOA
business process reengineering (BPR)
enterprise resource planning
12. On a process flow diagram - a diamond represents a...
the business triangle
Decision
IS strategy triangle
P2P
13. Highlights how IS add value to the primary and support activities of a firm's internal operations - customers - and supply chain
focus
value chain
business strategy
Ring and Van de Ven's stages of a strategic alliance
14. Strategy where organization qualifies its product or service in a way that allows it to appear unique in the marketplace
differentiation
IS strategy triangle
difference between a process and a service
supply chain management (SCM)
15. Mainframe - client/server - SOA - P2P - WOA
What enterprise systems need to be integrated with
managerial levers
configurations for IT architecture
hypercompetition
16. 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
halo effect
two essential characteristics of a business process
enterprise architecture
Long- term relationships with software vendors
17. Assets or capabilities
layers of enterprise architecture
halo effect
alignment
information resources can either be..
18. Anything that can be used by a firm in its processes for creating - producing - and/or offering its products
focus
Ring and Van de Ven's stages of a strategic alliance
IT asset
major disadvantage of an enterprise system
19. Inter- organizational relationship that affords one or more companies in the relationship a strategic advantage
focus
value net
CRM
strategic alliance
20. Speed and aggressive moves and coutermoves by a firm create competitive advantages
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21. Framework for understanding the design of an organization; links together business processes - values & beliefs - management control systems - and tasks & structures
when information strategy changes
mission
SCM
business diamond
22. On a process flow diagram - a circle represents a...
difference between a process and a service
Endpoint
strategy
cost leadership
23. Firms achieve competitive advantage through cost leadership - differentiation - or focus
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24. Strategy where companies cooperate and compete at the same time with companies in its value net
process
more specific sub- steps in process from strategy to architecture to infrastructure
co-oopetition
disadvantages of enterprise system
25. Infrastructure - information - applications - processes - strategy
layers of enterprise architecture
when information strategy changes
business process reengineering (BPR)
Ring and Van de Ven's stages of a strategic alliance
26. 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
middleware...
resource- based view vs. Porter's 5 Forces
information
supply chain management (SCM)
27. Strategy where organization limits its scope to a market segment and tailors its offerings to that group of customers using either cost or differentiation
customer relationship management (CRM)
focus
more specific sub- steps in process from strategy to architecture to infrastructure
middleware...
28. 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)
halo effect
Endpoint
client
IT asset
29. Self- contained functional units
architecture
silos
hypercompetition
major benefit of an enterprise system
30. Utilizes a large base of resources that allows organization to outlast competitors by practicing a differentiation strategy
infrastructure
unlimited resources model
Porter's 5 Forces
more efficient processes have
31. Businesses have to conform to the system - sometimes have to redesign processes to fit system
client/server
six sigma
major disadvantage of an enterprise system
enterprise architecture
32. Includes business - organizational - and information strategy; business strategy is at the top of the triangle because it guides the others
the business triangle
when business process management systems are most useful
what enterprise systems replaced
mission
33. Because they are complex and usually need continual modification to meet the organizations needs
BPM
Service - process
All departments throughout a company
why enterprise systems tie a company to a vendor
34. Data in context (i.e. with relevance and purpose)
hypercompetition
information
total quality management (TQM)
mainframe architecture
35. An IT capability makes it possible for the firm to use its IT assets effectively
organizational strategy
IS strategy
IT asset vs. capability
more specific sub- steps in process from strategy to architecture to infrastructure
36. The plan an organization uses in providing information services
IT asset vs. capability
ES
IS strategy
value net
37. Plan of where a business seeks to go and how it plans to get there
differentiation
business strategy
silos
CRM
38. ERP II makes information available to...
External stakeholders
mainframe architecture
BPM
P2P
39. Enterprise resource planning
CRM
shared services
characteristics of a business process
ERP
40. Business process management
risks associated with using information systems to gain strategic advantage
BPM
what ERPs help companies do
SCM
41. Uses a large central computer that handles all the functionality of the system; common in legacy systems
strategic alliance
resource- based view
mainframe architecture
major disadvantage of an enterprise system
42. Something learned over time for the firm to create - produce - or offer its products
architecture
organizational strategy
IT capability
Endpoint
43. 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
All departments throughout a company
service- oriented architecture
CRM
enterprise systems are useful for this sort of organizational structure
44. 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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45. Software used to connect processes in one or more computers across a network
middleware...
major disadvantage of an enterprise system
organizational change management
focus
46. Interrelated set of activities and tasks that turns inputs into outputs
P2P
organizational strategy
process
BPR
47. Manage fragmentation of information across an organization
the business triangle
Decision
value net
what ERPs help companies do
48. Class of IT applications used to enable information flow within and between business processes
enterprise resource planning
client
enterprise systems
P2P
49. Supply chain management
enterprise architecture
value net
SCM
value chain framework
50. Allows functional areas of an organization to share information easily
service- oriented architecture
major benefit of an enterprise system
enterprise systems are useful for this sort of organizational structure
strategy