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Information Systems

Subjects : engineering, it-skills
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1. ERP II makes information available to...






2. 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)






3. Radical way of transforming business processes






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

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






6. For changes in organizational structure - expensive - risky






7. Infrastructure - information - applications - processes - strategy






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






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






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






11. Processes are horizontal across a corporation - many functional areas of the business will be involved in a process; functions are vertical silos in an organization (e.g. finance - operations - accounting - marketing - administration)






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






13. Enterprise systems






14. Strategy --> architecture --> infrastructure






15. Manage fragmentation of information across an organization






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






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






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






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






20. Information and organizational strategy must also change






21. Technical skills - IT management skills - relationship skills






22. Includes data - technology - people - and processes






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






24. The plan an organization uses in providing information services






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. Total quality management






34. Enterprise resource planning






35. Assets or capabilities






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






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

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






39. Ease of imitation - substitution - transfer






40. Business process management






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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







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