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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. Incremental way of transforming business processes






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






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






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






5. Enterprise resource planning






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






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






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






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






10. Systems that handle automated processes within and across organizations






11. Negotiation - commitment - execution - assessment

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12. Strategy --> architecture --> infrastructure






13. Includes organization's design and the choices it makes to define - set up - coordinate - and control its work processes






14. 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.)






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






16. Enterprise systems






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






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






19. 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






20. Technical skills - IT management skills - relationship skills






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. Infrastructure - information - applications - processes - strategy






28. For changes in organizational structure - expensive - risky






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






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






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






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






33. Manage fragmentation of information across an organization






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






35. Total quality management






36. 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






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






38. The plan an organization uses in providing information services






39. Peer- to- peer






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






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






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






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






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






45. Business process re- engineering






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






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






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






49. 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






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