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Information Systems

Subjects : engineering, it-skills
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  • 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. Everything that supports the flow and processing of information in an organization - including hardware - software - data and network components






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






4. 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)






5. Enterprise resource planning






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






7. Assets or capabilities






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






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






10. Information and organizational strategy must also change






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






12. Web- oriented architecture






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






14. Supply chain management






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






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






17. Systems that handle automated processes within and across organizations






18. Technical skills - IT management skills - relationship skills






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


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






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






22. Radical way of transforming business processes






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






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






25. Negotiation - commitment - execution - assessment


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






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






28. Infrastructure - information - applications - processes - strategy






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


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


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






32. For changes in organizational structure - expensive - risky






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






34. Inputs/outputs and tasks






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






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






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






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






39. Service- oriented architecture






40. Incremental way of transforming business processes






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






42. Ease of imitation - substitution - transfer






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


44. 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






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






46. 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.)






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






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






49. ERP II makes information available to...






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