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Information Systems

Subjects : engineering, it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The plan an organization uses in providing information services






2. Supply chain management






3. Business process management






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






5. Ease of imitation - substitution - transfer






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






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






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






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






10. Total quality management






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






12. 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






13. Assets or capabilities






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






15. Peer- to- peer






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






17. 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






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






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






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






21. Manage fragmentation of information across an organization






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






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






24. Information and organizational strategy must also change






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






26. 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






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






28. Incremental way of transforming business processes






29. Business process re- engineering






30. Service- oriented architecture






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






32. Inputs/outputs and tasks






33. Enterprise resource planning






34. R/3 (made by SAP)






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






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






37. Customer relationship management






38. On a process flow diagram - a circle represents a...






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






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






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






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






43. Includes data - technology - people - and processes






44. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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