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What are the six steps in decision-making?

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1) Problem identification
2) Data collection
3) Solution generation
4) Solution test
5) Solution selection
6) Solution implementation

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What are Structured decisions?

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Situations where established processes offer potential solutions

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What is Managerial decision making?

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Employees evaluate company operations to identify, adapt to, and leverage change

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What are Semistructured decisions?

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Occur in situations in which a few established processes help to evaluate potential solutions, but not enough to lead to a definite recommended decision

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What is strategic decision making?

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Managers develop overall strategies, goals, and objectives

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What are Unstructured decisions?

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Occurs in situations in which no procedures or rules exist to guide decision makers toward the correct choice

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What are critical success factors (CSFs)?

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The crucial steps companies make to perform to achieve their goals and objectives and implement strategies

Ex:

  • Create high-quality products
  • Retain competitive advantages
  • Reduce product costs
  • Increase customer satisfaction
  • Hire and retain the best professionals
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What is a project?

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A temporary activity a company undertakes to create a unique product, service, or result

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What is a metric?

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Measurements that evaluate results to determine whether a project is meeting its goals

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What are Key performance indicators? (KPIs)

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The quantifiable metrics a company uses to evaluate progress toward critical success factors

Ex:

  • Turnover rates of employees
  • Number of product returns
  • Number of new customers
  • Average customer spending
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What is an external KPI?

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Market share - The portion of the market that a firm captures (external)

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What is an internal KPI?

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Return on investment (ROI) – Indicates the earning power of a project

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What are Efficiency MIS metrics?

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Measure the performance of MIS itself, such as throughput, transaction speed, and system availability

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What are Effectiveness MIS metrics?

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Measures the impact MIS has on business processes and activities, including customer satisfaction and customer conversation rates

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What is benchmarking?

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A process of continuously measuring system results, comparing those results to optimal system performance (benchmark values), and identifying steps and procedures to improve system performance

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What is benchmark?

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Baseline values the system seeks to attain

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What is a model?

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A simplified representation or abstraction of reality

Models help managers to

  • Calculate risks
  • Understand uncertainty
  • Change variables
  • Manipulate time to make decisions
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What are Operational support systems?

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1) Transaction processing system (TPS)

2) Online transaction processing (OLTP)

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What is a Transaction processing system (TPS)?

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Basic business system that serves the operational level and assists in making structured decisions

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What is a Online transaction processing (OLTP) -

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Capturing of transaction and event information using technology to process, store, and update

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What is a Source document?

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The original transaction record

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What is Online analytical processing (OLAP)?

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Manipulation of information to create business intelligence in support of strategic decision making

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What is Decision support system (DSS)?

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Models information to support managers and business professionals during the decision-making process

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What are 4 quantitative models used by decision support systems (DSS)?

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  • What-if analysis
  • Sensitivity analysis
  • Goal-seeking analysis
  • Optimization analysis
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What is an example of a Strategic support system?
Executive information system (EIS)
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What is an Executive information system (EIS)?
A specialized DSS that supports senior level executives within the organization - Granularity - Visualization - Digital dashboard
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What capablities do Executive information system (EIS) offer?
- Consolidation - Drill-down - Slice-and-dice - Pivot
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What is Artificial intelligence (AI)?
Simulates human intelligence such as the ability to reason and learn
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What is an Intelligent system?
Various commercial applications of artificial intelligence
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What is Machin learning?
A type of artificial intelligence that enables computers to both understand concepts in the environment, and also to learn - Weak AI: chatbots - Strong AI: automated cars
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What are the five most common categories of AI?
1) Expert system 2) Neural network 3) Genetic algorithm 4) Intelligent agent 5) Virtual reality
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What is an Expert system? (AI)
Computerized advisory programs that imitate the reasoning processes of experts in solving difficult problems Ex: - Machine vision: The ability of a computer to “see” by digitizing an image, processing the data it contains, and taking some kind of action
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What is a Neural network?
Attempts to emulate the way the human brain works Ex: - Fuzzy logic: A mathematical method of handling imprecise or subjective information - Deep learning: A process that employs specialized algorithms to model and study complex datasets; the method is also used to establish relationships among data and datasets
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What is a Genetic algorithm? (AI)
An artificial intelligent system that mimics the evolutionary, survival-of-the-fittest process to generate increasingly better solutions to a problem - Shopping bot:: Software that will search several retailer websites and provide a comparison of each retailer’s offerings including price and availability
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What is an Intelligent agent? (AI)
Special-purpose knowledge-based information system that accomplishes specific tasks on behalf of its users
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What is Virtual reality? (AI)
A computer-simulated environment that can be a simulation of the real world or an imaginary world
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What are Customer facing processes?
Results in a product or service that is received by an organization’s external customer
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What are Business facing processes?
Invisible to the external customer but essential to the effective management of the business
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What is Business process modelling (or mapping)?
The activity of creating a detailed flow chart or process map of a work process showing its inputs, tasks, and activities, in a structured sequence
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What is a Business model?
A graphic description of a process, showing the sequence of process tasks, which is developed for a specific Ex: - As-Is process model - To-Be process model
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What is Workflow?
Includes the tasks, activities, and responsibilities required to execute each step in a business process
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What are Operational business processes?
Static, routine, daily business processes such as stocking inventory, checking out customers, or daily opening and closing processes
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What are Operationalized analytics?
Makes analytics part of a business process
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What are Business process improvements?
Attempts to understand and measure the current process and make performance improvements accordingly
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What is Automation?
The process of computerizing manual tasks
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What are the steps in Business process improvement?
1) Document As-Is processes 2) Establish measures 3) Follow process 4) Measure performance 5) Identify and implement improvements
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What is Streamlining?
Improves business process efficiencies by simplifying or eliminating unnecessary steps
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What is a Bottleneck?
Occur when resources reach full capacity and cannot handle any additional demands
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What is a Redundancy?
Occurs when a task or activity is unnecessarily repeated
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What is Business process reengineering (BPR)?
Analysis and redesign of workflow within and between enterprises

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