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Information Systems

Subjects : engineering, it-skills
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1. Can have coopetition w/o strategic alliance - can have strategic alliance w/o coopetition






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

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






4. Ease of imitation - substitution - transfer






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






6. Service- oriented architecture






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






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






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






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






11. 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






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






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






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






15. Business process management






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






17. Assets or capabilities






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






19. Infrastructure - information - applications - processes - strategy






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






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

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






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






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






25. 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.)






26. Supply chain management






27. Peer- to- peer






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. Incremental way of transforming business processes






36. ERP II makes information available to...






37. Negotiation - commitment - execution - assessment

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






39. Radical way of transforming business processes






40. 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






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






42. Includes data - technology - people - and processes






43. Centralization (because they focus on integration)






44. 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)






45. Strategy --> architecture --> infrastructure






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






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






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






49. Total quality management






50. Technical skills - IT management skills - relationship skills







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