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Information Systems

Subjects : engineering, it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






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






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

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5. R/3 (made by SAP)






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






7. Enterprise systems usually require...






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






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






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






11. Negotiation - commitment - execution - assessment

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






13. Centralization (because they focus on integration)






14. Infrastructure - information - applications - processes - strategy






15. Systems that handle automated processes within and across organizations






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






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






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






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






20. The plan an organization uses in providing information services






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






22. 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.)






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






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






25. The open group architectural framework; designed to translate strategy into architecture and then into a detailed infrastructure using standardized Architecture Development Methodology






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






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






28. Inputs/outputs and tasks






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

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






31. 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)






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






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






34. Enterprise resource planning






35. Processes make services possible; processes have inputs and outputs - while service is a cycle (ongoing)






36. Business process management






37. 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






38. ERP II makes information available to...






39. 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






40. Peer- to- peer






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






42. Enterprise systems






43. Incremental way of transforming business processes






44. Clear and compelling statement of organization's purpose and what makes it unique






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






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






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






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






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






50. Processes are horizontal across a corporation - many functional areas of the business will be involved in a process; functions are vertical silos in an organization (e.g. finance - operations - accounting - marketing - administration)