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Information Systems

Subjects : engineering, it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An IT capability makes it possible for the firm to use its IT assets effectively






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






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






4. Includes business - organizational - and information strategy; business strategy is at the top of the triangle because it guides the others






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






6. 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






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






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






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


10. Business process re- engineering






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






12. The value of a network node to a person or organization in a network increases when others join the network






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






14. Supply chain management






15. 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






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






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






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






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. Service- oriented architecture






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






22. 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)






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






24. Inputs/outputs and tasks






25. Self- contained functional units






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






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


28. ERPs make information available to...






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






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






31. The plan an organization uses in providing information services






32. Ease of imitation - substitution - transfer






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


34. 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.)






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






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






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






38. Customer relationship management






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. For changes in organizational structure - expensive - risky






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






48. Business process management






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






50. Enterprise systems usually require...