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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems include thefollowing except:
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Varied organizational systems and facilitates that areerror-free transactions and production.
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Information entered in one process is immediately availablefor other processes.
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Collects data from many divisions of firm for use in nearlyall of firm’s internal business activities.
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Suite of integrated software modules and a common centraldatabase.
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ESS rely on accurate inputs from a firm’s MIS and DSS toprovide useful information to executives. If they are isolated fromone another, it is a kind of organizational dysfunction, probablyinherited from the past.
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ESS rely on accurate inputs from a firm’s ESS, MIS and DSS toprovide useful information to executives. If they are isolated fromone another, it is a kind of organizational dysfunction, probablyinherited from the past.
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Ethical dilemmas include companies trying to use new systemsto reduce the size of their workforce, such as telephone companiesusing automated systems to reduce the need for human operators. Incases like these, right and wrong are not clearly defined, butinstead, contrasting values are at odds with one another; givencompanies value productivity, employees value their work.
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Facebook’s rapid growth and its ranking as number one is aninteresting and informative business case because:
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it shows the power of IT to disrupt the status quo andtransform industries.
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it is a public company with an immensely-profitable businessmodel.
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it has positioned itself solely as a social network.
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all of the above
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Management information systems is a specific category ofinformation systems for middle management. It has the same name,but a very different meaning, in other words, managementinformation systems involves looking at all the systems used inbusiness.
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Another business intelligence tool driven by databases, datamining. Data mining provides insights into data that cannot bediscovered through Online Analytical Processing (OLAP), byinferring rules from patterns in data.
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NORA (Nonobvious Relationship Awareness) technology can takeinformation about people from disparate sources and find obscure,nonobvious relationships. It might discover, for example, that anapplicant for a job at a casino shares a telephone number with aknown criminal and issue an alert to the hiring manager.
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New federal security and accounting laws that requirecompanies to store e-mail for 5 years have spurred the growth ofdigital information, which is increasing at a rate of 5 exabytesannually.
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The use of Internet technology has transformed and continuesto transform businesses and business activity. E-business refers tothe use of the Internet and networking to enable all parts of thebusiness, whereas e-commerce refers to just that part of businessthat involves selling goods and services over the Internet.
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Innovation leads to profitable growth if thatinnovation:
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generates new profit pools.
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increases demand for products and services.
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attracts new competitors.
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Both a and b
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Which of the following is a characteristic of competitiveadvantage?
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It provides a big strategic payoff.
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It is short-lived if competitors quickly duplicate it.
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It is a long lasting edge over competitors if based onIT.
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It requires the use of social media and networks.
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Environments shape what organizations can do, butorganizations can influence their environments and decide to changeenvironments altogether. Information technology plays a criticalrole in helping organizations perceive environmental change and inhelping organizations act on their environment.
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An unnormalized relation contains repeating groups. Forexample, there can be many parts and suppliers for each order.There is only a one-to-one correspondence between Order_Number andOrder_Date. In other words, an order can include more than onepart, and it may be that several parts are supplied by the samesupplier.
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A successful information system is like a completed “house”,computers and software represent only the tools and materials usedto build the house. Tools and materials don’t just suddenly becomea completed house, outside (human) input is required. Systems needto be designed to fit the firms and the humans who work with thesystems.
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CRM systems examine customers from a multifaceted perspective.These systems use a set of integrated applications to address allaspects of the customer relationship, including customer service,sales, marketing and profits.
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Implementing new infrastructure requires significant changesin business processes and procedures, training and education, andsoftware integration. This is a task that firms struggle to achieveon their own, which drives the need for these services.
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Concern about environmental damage and reducing a company’scarbon and energy footprints on the planet has triggered effortsfor ________.
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RFID
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green IT
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EPA
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data centers
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Decision support systems are ________ that supportunstructured and semi-structured decision making.
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interactive applications
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reporting applications
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operations support systems
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process control systems
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Environmental projections involves searching for anddetermining external changes that may require an organizationalresponse. The current economic climate represents an example ofexternal change that requires sweeping organizational responses toensure survival.
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If your company lacks a robust mobile commerce platform it canrecover over the next several years if it is competitive withmobile-accessible services such as delivery status andclick-to-call product information.
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A number of factors are leading to a growing emphasis oncollaboration in firms. Work is changing, requiring morecooperation and coordination. Professions play a larger role infirms than before, and this often requires more consultation amongexperts. Organizations are flatter, with many more decisions madefar down in the hierarchy. Organizations are more far flung aroundthe globe, in multiple locations. There’s an emphasis on findingand sharing ideas, which requires collaboration.
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DSS can rely on either analytical models or large databases toprovide valuable information. Specific vessels or aircraft could besent to particular destinations to maximize profit, the optimalloading pattern for cargo or passengers, and the optimal rate atwhich vessels or aircraft should travel to maximize efficiencywhile still meeting schedules.
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The Internet backbone connects to regional networks, which inturn provide access to Internet service providers, large firms, andgovernment institutions. Network access points (NAPs) andmetropolitan area exchanges (MAEs) are hubs where the backboneintersects regional and local networks and where backbone ownersconnect with one another.
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Information systems or their absence have been related to therecent financial crisis in the United States, the investment banksthat have suffered heavy losses, and individuals who were able todefraud investors of millions.
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In Porter’s competitive forces model, the strategic positionof the firm and its strategies are determined not only bycompetition with its traditional direct competitors but also byfour other forces in the industry’s environment: new marketentrants, substitute products, customers, and suppliers.
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A system refers to a set of components that work together(hopefully). The point of an information system is to make senseout all the confusing data in the environment and put the data intosome kind of order.
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Nanotubes are tiny tubes about 10,000 times thinner than ahuman hair. They consist of rolled-up sheets of carbon hexagons andhave potential use as minuscule wires or in ultrasmall electronicdevices and are very powerful conductors of electrical current. Ineffect, Nanotechnology is used to create transistors of the tinysize previously mentioned.
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The enterprise Internet graphic represents several individualnetworks linked together into an enterprise-wide network. The cloudcomputing graph represents several types of technology that arecapable of connecting to the Internet and accessing applicationsand services through a cloud.
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Which of the following best describes RFIDimplementation?
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RFID implementations are used only to track products andpallets.
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RFID systems are frequently implemented as stand-alonesystems.
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RFID implementation has been rapid and widespread for securityreasons.
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RFID implementation has been slow due to costs, privacy, andsecurity concerns.