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Chapter 1 - Definition of Terms Flashcards

1
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makes long-range strategic decisions about products
and services as well as ensures financial performance of the firm

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Senior management

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consists of the software governing the
organization of data on physical storage media

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Data Management technology

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It describes how a company produces, sells, and delivers product or services to create wealth.

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Business Model

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It consists of all the hardware
and software that a firm needs to use in order to achieve its business objectives.

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Information technology

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What are the major business functions?

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  1. Finance and accounting
  2. Sales and marketing
  3. Human resources
  4. Manufacturing and production
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6
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engineers, scientists, or architects,
design products or services and create new knowledge for the firm

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Knowledge worker

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7
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When business engage in its customer and supplier, they provide you better input and respond in buying more.

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Customer and supplier intimacy

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consists of the detailed, preprogrammed instructions
that control and coordinate the computer hardware components in an information system

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Computer software

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consisting of both
physical devices and software, links the various pieces of hardware and transfers data from one physical location to another.

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Networking and telecommunication technology

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links two or more computers to share data or resources,
such as a printer.

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Network

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The largest and the most widely use network.

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Internet

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12
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It is a specialized task performed by business organization .

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Business function

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13
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Internal corporate networks based
on Internet technology

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Intranet

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14
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it
concentrates on changes in attitudes, management and organizational policy,
and behavior

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Behavioral approach

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15
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Provide equipment for storing and processing information.

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Computer

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16
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approach to information systems emphasizes mathematically based
models to study information systems, as well as the physical technology and formal capabilities of these systems. It includes the COMPUTER SCIENCE, MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, AND OPERATION RESEARCH.

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Technical approach

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17
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is the **physical equipment used for input, processing,
and output **activities in an information system

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Computer Hardware

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18
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emphasizes the development of models for decision-making and management practices.

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Management science

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19
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What was the view adopted in the book

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Socio technical view

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20
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Firms are investing in information system to achieve the six strategic business objectives where were the?

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  1. Operational Excellence
  2. Customer-supplier intimacy
  3. Competitive Advantage
  4. Survival
  5. Better decision-making
  6. New product, services, and business model.
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Growing interdependence between firm’s IS and its business capabilities.

continuously seek to improve the efficiency of their operation in order to achieve higher profitability.

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Operation Excellence.

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22
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h focuses on mathematical techniques for optimizing selected parameters of organizations, such as
transportation, inventory control, and transaction costs.

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Operation research

23
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data that have been shaped into a form that is
meaningful and useful to human beings.

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Information

24
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converts this raw
input into a meaningful form

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Processing

25
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It refers to the set of logically related tasks and behaviors
that organizations develop over time to produce specific business results and
the unique manner in which these activities are organized and coordinated.

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Business Processes

26
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are** technical foundation, the tools and materials of modern information system.**

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Electronic computer and related software program.

27
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provides the foundation, or platform, on which
the firm can build its specific information systems.

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Information technology infrastructure

28
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are those assets required to derive value from a
primary investment

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Complementary assets

29
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Works takes place in global workshop

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Space shifting

30
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What are the key elements of ORGANIZATION?

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People, structure, business processes, politics, and culture.

31
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_____________ are accomplished through digital network spanning the entire organization or linking multiple organizations.

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Core business processes

32
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actually produce the product and deliver the service

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Production or service workers

33
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Are fundamental set of assumptions,
values, and ways of doing things, that has been accepted by most of its
members

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Culture

34
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is concerned with establishing theories of computability,
methods of computation, and methods of efficient data storage and access.

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Computer science

35
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carries out the programs and plans of senior management

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Middle Management

36
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is a service provided by the Internet that uses
universally accepted standards for storing, retrieving, formatting, and
displaying information in a page format on the Internet

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World wide web

37
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transfers the processed information to
the people who will use it or to the activities for which it will be used.

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Output

38
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broader understanding of information systems, which encompasses an understanding of the management and
organizational dimensions of systems as well as the technical dimensions of
systems

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Information literacy

39
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responsible for monitoring the daily activities of
the business.

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Operational Management

40
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deals with behavioral issues as well as technical issues surrounding the development, use, and impact of information systems used by managers and employees in the firm.

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Management Information system

41
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Is defined technically as a set of interrelated
components that collect (or retrieve), process, store, and distribute information
to support decision making and control in an organization.

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Information system

42
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secretaries or clerks, assist with scheduling and communications.

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Data workers

43
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The investments in organization and management are also
known as

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Organization and management capital

44
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focuses primarily on knowledge of information technology.

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Computer literacy

45
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captures or collects raw data from within the
organization or from its external environment.

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Input

46
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Information system and technology have made it possible for managers to use real time data from the market place when making decisions.

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Improve decision making

47
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are streams of raw
facts representing events occurring in organizations or the physical environment before they have been organized and arranged into a form that people can
understand and use

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Data

48
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It is one in
which nearly all of the organization’s significant business relationships with
customers, suppliers, and employees are digitally enabled and mediated.

A

Digital Firm

49
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Private intranets extended to
authorized users outside the organization are called

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Extranet

50
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What are the changes in technology, management, and organization.

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Technology
1. Emergence of Mobile Digital Platform.
2. Growth of online software as a service.
3. Growth of cloud computing.

Management
1. Business Intelligence application.
2. Virtual meetings proliferate.
3. Managers adopt online collaboration and social networking software.

Organization
1. Web 2.0 applications.
2. Telework gains momentum in the workplace.
3. Co-creation of business values

51
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Intellectual properties, core competencies, and financial and human resources are managed through digital means.

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Key corporate assets

52
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which is output that is returned to
appropriate members of the organization to help them evaluate or correct the
input stage.

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Feedback

53
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Refers to the business being conducted 24/7.

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Time shifting

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