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Information Systems

Subjects : engineering, it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Infrastructure - information - applications - processes - strategy






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






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


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






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






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






7. Strategy --> architecture --> infrastructure






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






9. ERPs make information available to...






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


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






12. For changes in organizational structure - expensive - risky






13. Technical skills - IT management skills - relationship skills






14. Assets or capabilities






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






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






17. The plan an organization uses in providing information services






18. Business process management






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






20. Enterprise systems






21. Customer relationship management






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






23. Negotiation - commitment - execution - assessment


24. Enterprise systems usually require...






25. Integration - packages - best practices - some assembly required - evolving






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






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


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






29. Tries to minimize risks and maximize benefits of change in an organization






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






31. 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






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






33. Includes data - technology - people - and processes






34. ERP II makes information available to...






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






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






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






38. 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






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






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






41. 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






42. Peer- to- peer






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






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






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






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






47. Enterprise resource planning






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






49. Threat of new entrants - bargaining power of buyers - threat of substitute products or services - bargaining power of suppliers - rivalry among existing competitors


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