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Information Systems

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






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






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






4. Negotiation - commitment - execution - assessment

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5. Technical skills - IT management skills - relationship skills






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






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






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






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






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






11. Radical way of transforming business processes






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






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






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






15. Mainframe - client/server - SOA - P2P - WOA






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






17. Assets or capabilities






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






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






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






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






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






25. Infrastructure - information - applications - processes - strategy






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






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






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)






29. Self- contained functional units






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. The plan an organization uses in providing information services






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






38. ERP II makes information available to...






39. Enterprise resource planning






40. Business process management






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






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






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






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






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






47. Manage fragmentation of information across an organization






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






49. Supply chain management






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