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Information Systems

Subjects : engineering, it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Software program that requests and receives data and instructions from another






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






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






4. Clear and compelling statement of organization's purpose and what makes it unique






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






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






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






8. 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)






9. Peer- to- peer






10. ERPs make information available to...






11. Total quality management






12. 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






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






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






15. Radical way of transforming business processes






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






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


18. 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)






19. 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






20. Includes data - technology - people - and processes






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






22. Infrastructure - information - applications - processes - strategy






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






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






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






26. Business process management






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






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






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






30. Self- contained functional units






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


32. 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






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






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






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


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






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






38. Strategy --> architecture --> infrastructure






39. Technical skills - IT management skills - relationship skills






40. 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






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






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






43. Everything that supports the flow and processing of information in an organization - including hardware - software - data and network components






44. Enterprise resource planning






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






46. R/3 (made by SAP)






47. Manage fragmentation of information across an organization






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


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






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