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Information Systems

Subjects : engineering, it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Organizations restructure common business processes to consolidate services like IT - human resources - finance






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






3. ERPs make information available to...






4. Inputs/outputs and tasks






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






6. Customer relationship management






7. Fewer steps - fewer branches - fewer loops - and fewer decisions






8. 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.)






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






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

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






12. Supply chain management






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






14. Peer- to- peer






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






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






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






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






19. Total quality management






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






21. 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






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. R/3 (made by SAP)






24. Ease of imitation - substitution - transfer






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






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






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






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






29. Radical way of transforming business processes






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






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

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






33. Incremental way of transforming business processes






34. Technical skills - IT management skills - relationship skills






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






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






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






38. For changes in organizational structure - expensive - risky






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. Assets or capabilities






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






47. Enterprise systems usually require...






48. Enterprise systems






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






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