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Information Systems

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






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






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






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






5. Ease of imitation - substitution - transfer






6. Incremental way of transforming business processes






7. For changes in organizational structure - expensive - risky






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






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






10. 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






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






12. Includes data - technology - people - and processes






13. Software used to connect processes in one or more computers across a network






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






15. Enterprise systems






16. 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)






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






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






19. Centralization (because they focus on integration)






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






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






22. 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)






23. Customer relationship management






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






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






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






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






28. Web- oriented architecture






29. Business process management






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






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






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






33. Total quality management






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






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






36. Information and organizational strategy must also change






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






38. 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






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






40. 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.)






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






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






43. 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






44. Self- contained functional units






45. Strategy where organization qualifies its product or service in a way that allows it to appear unique in the marketplace






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






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






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






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






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