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Information Systems

Subjects : engineering, it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Includes data - technology - people - and processes






2. Technical skills - IT management skills - relationship skills






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






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






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






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






7. Business process re- engineering






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






9. Manage fragmentation of information across an organization






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






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






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






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






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






15. Systems that handle automated processes within and across organizations






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






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


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






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






20. Infrastructure - information - applications - processes - strategy






21. Integration - packages - best practices - some assembly required - evolving






22. Total quality management






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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


33. R/3 (made by SAP)






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






35. An end user will usually notice a reduction in the performance of a ______ before a _______






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






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


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






39. Enterprise systems usually require...






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






41. Business process management






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






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






44. 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.)






45. Suggests that speed and aggressiveness of the moves and countermoves create an environment in which advantages are rapidly created and eroded






46. 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






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






48. Peer- to- peer






49. Self- contained functional units






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