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






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






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


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






5. Enterprise resource planning






6. 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.)






7. Business strategy should not be affected because it is at a more abstract level






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






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






10. Includes data - technology - people - and processes






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






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






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






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






15. Strategy --> architecture --> infrastructure






16. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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


23. 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






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






25. 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






26. Supply chain management






27. 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






28. R/3 (made by SAP)






29. Business process re- engineering






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






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






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






33. Systems that handle automated processes within and across organizations






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






35. When all the activities are in a predetermined order (not when steps vary in a process)






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






37. Strategy where organization limits its scope to a market segment and tailors its offerings to that group of customers using either cost or differentiation






38. ERPs make information available to...






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






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






41. Business process management






42. Customer relationship management






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






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


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






46. 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)






47. Technical skills - IT management skills - relationship skills






48. Radical way of transforming business processes






49. Ease of imitation - substitution - transfer






50. Organizational - control - and cultural variables used by decision makers to effect changes in their organization