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Information Systems

Subjects : engineering, it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Peer- to- peer






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






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






4. Enterprise resource planning






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






6. Ease of imitation - substitution - transfer






7. Strategy where organization qualifies its product or service in a way that allows it to appear unique in the marketplace






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






9. R/3 (made by SAP)






10. Incremental way of transforming business processes






11. Supply chain management






12. Infrastructure - information - applications - processes - strategy






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






14. 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






15. Self- contained functional units






16. Enterprise systems






17. 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)






18. Comprehensive software packages that incorporate all modules needed to run the operations of a business






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






20. Business process management






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






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






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






24. The situation in which a company's current and emerging business strategy is enabled - supported - and unconstrained by technology






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






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






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


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






29. 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.)






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






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






32. Framework for understanding the design of an organization; links together business processes - values & beliefs - management control systems - and tasks & structures






33. Inputs/outputs and tasks






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






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






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






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






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






39. The plan an organization uses in providing information services






40. Activities designed to learn more about customers' needs and behaviors to develop stronger relationships with them and enhance their value chains






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






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






43. Radical way of transforming business processes






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






45. ERPs make information available to...






46. Business process re- engineering






47. Enterprise systems usually require...






48. Manage fragmentation of information across an organization






49. Strategy --> architecture --> infrastructure






50. 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