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Information Systems

Subjects : engineering, it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Web- oriented architecture






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






3. Enterprise resource planning






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






5. R/3 (made by SAP)






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






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

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






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






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






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






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






13. Information and organizational strategy must also change






14. Incremental way of transforming business processes






15. Inputs/outputs and tasks






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






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






18. Business process management






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

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






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






22. Systems that handle automated processes within and across organizations






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






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






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






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






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






28. Enterprise systems usually require...






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






30. Strategy --> architecture --> infrastructure






31. Negotiation - commitment - execution - assessment

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






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






34. For changes in organizational structure - expensive - risky






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






36. 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.)






37. 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






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






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






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






41. Total quality management






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






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






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






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






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






47. 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






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






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






50. Supply chain management