IT and Business Strategy
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Course Introduction
This course explores the dynamic relationship between information technology (IT) and business strategy, emphasizing how IT can be leveraged to create competitive advantage and drive organizational success. Students will examine frameworks for aligning IT initiatives with business goals, analyze real-world case studies of digital transformation, and discuss the role of emerging technologies in shaping strategic decision-making. By the end of the course, participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of how IT investments can influence strategic planning, innovation, and operational effectiveness in modern enterprises.
Recommended Textbook Management Information Systems 2nd Edition by Paige Baltzan
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Chapter 1: Management Information Systems: Business Driven MIS
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Q1) What is one of the most common ways a company can decrease supplier power?
A)Charge lower prices.
B)Charge higher prices.
C)Use MIS to find and create alternative products.
D)Companies cannot affect supplier power.
Answer: C
Q2) Focused strategies concentrate on either cost leadership or ___________.
Answer: Differentiation
Q3) Today's workers are commonly referred to as _____________ workers, who use business intelligence along with personal experience to make decisions.
Answer: Knowledge
Q4) As companies move from data to knowledge, they will start to include more and more variables for analysis resulting in better, more precise support for
A)Decision making.
B)Problem solving.
C)Both A and B.
D)None of these.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Decision and Processes: Value Driven Business
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Q1) At the strategic decision-making level, employees develop, control, and maintain core business activities.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Review the following list of key terms and determine which one typically occurs during strategic business process improvement.
A)Automation
B)Streamlining
C)Reengineering
D)Improvement
Answer: C
Q3) Which of the following is a type of effectiveness MIS metric?
A)Transaction speed
B)System availability
C)Usability
D)Throughput
Answer: C
Q4) ________ are baseline values the system seeks to attain.
Answer: Benchmarks
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Chapter 3: Ebusiness: Electronic Business Value
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Q1) What is the type of knowledge that is contained in people's heads?
A)Explicit knowledge
B)Virtual knowledge
C)Tacit knowledge
D)Pure knowledge
Answer: C
Q2) Information __________ refers to the depth and breadth of details contained in a piece of textual, graphic, audio, or video information.
Answer: Richness
Q3) What are the three primary models that a B2C can use to operate?
A)Click-and-brick, click-and-mortar, pure play
B)Brick-and-mortar, click-and-mortar, virtual
C)Brick-and-mortar, click-and-consumer, virtual-and-consumer
D)Brick-and-click, brick-and-mortar, brick-and-virtual
Answer: B
Q4) The primary objective of __________ management is to be sure that a company's knowledge of facts, sources of information, and solutions are readily available to all employees whenever it is needed.
Answer: Knowledge
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Chapter 4: Ethics and Information Security: MIS Business
Concerns
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Q1) If an organization implemented only one policy, which one would it want to implement?
A)Information privacy policy
B)Acceptable use policy
C)Internet use policy
D)Ethical computer use policy
Q2) Which of the following refers to the ability of a company to identify, search, gather, seize, or export digital information in responding to a litigation, audit, investigation, or information inquiry?
A)Eauthorization
B)Emanagement
C)Ediscovery
D)Epolicies
Q3) Privacy is the legal protection afforded an expression of an idea, such as a song, book, or video game.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Ethics and security are two fundamental building blocks for all organizations.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Infrastructure: Sustainable Technologies
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Q1) What does the cloud computing service provider "Mozy" specializes in?
A)Web-based email
B)Slide presentation options
C)File transfer and storage
D)Online computer backup services
Q2) One comparison of the life expectancy of electronic devices is the analogy that one human year is equivalent to ________ years of technological advancements.
A)10
B)2
C)50
D)7
Q3) The ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure that includes restoring the company information is called a backup.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A specific type of fault tolerance, _________, occurs when a redundant storage server offers an exact replica of the real-time data, and if the primary server crashes, the users are automatically directed to the secondary server or backup server.
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Chapter 6: Data: Business Intelligence
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Q1) Relational _____________ constraints are rules that enforce basic and fundamental information-based constraints.
Q2) There are three primary data models for organizing information: the hierarchical, network, and relational database models.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following lists include all of the five characteristics common to high-quality information?
A)Accuracy, completeness, strength, support, and positive feedback
B)Accuracy, association, referral, sales, and marketing
C)Accuracy, competition, support, customer service, and visibility
D)Accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, and uniqueness
Q4) What is immediate, up-to-date information?
A)Real-time information
B)Real-time systems
C)Information granularity
D)All of these
Q5) Define a data warehouse, and provide a few reasons it can make a manager more effective.
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Chapter 7: Networks: Mobile Business
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Q1) Which of the following uses both GIS and GPS?
A)Navigation
B)Wireless advertising
C)Vehicle location
D)All of these
Q2) A (An) ___________ is an extension of an intranet that is available only to authorized outsiders, such as customers, partners, and suppliers.
Q3) What connects a group of computers in close proximity, such as in a school or office setting?
A)Metropolitan area network (MAN)
B)Local area network (LAN)
C)Wide area network (WAN)
D)Secure area network (SAN)
Q4) Wireless networks offer many business advantages but can often slow employee productivity and workflow processes.
A)True
B)False
Q5) A ___________ metropolitan area network uses radio signals to transmit and receive data.
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Chapter 8: Enterprise Applications: Business Communications
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Q1) The human resource component is one of the three most common _________ ERP components.
Q2) Back-office operations deal directly with the customer.
A)True
B)False
Q3) _________ and materials management is one of the three most common core ERP components.
Q4) _________ integration takes information entered into a given system and sends it automatically to all downstream systems and processes.
Q5) Which of the following describes how customer service representatives answer customer inquiries and respond to problems through a number of different customer touchpoints?
A)Contact center
B)Web-based self-service
C)Call scripting
D)Website personalization
Q6) McDonald's is ____________-selling when it asks their customers if they would like to super-size their meals.
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Q7) Cross-selling is selling _________ products or services to a customer.
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Chapter 9: Systems Development and Project Management: Corporate Responsibility
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Q1) Human resources is the most common outsourced function.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following describes agile?
A)Fast and efficient
B)Small and nimble
C)Lower cost
D)All of these
Q3) What is a set of policies, procedures, standards, processes, practices, tools, techniques, and tasks that people apply to technical and management challenges?
A)SDLC
B)Methodology
C)Waterfall
D)Agile
Q4) The _________ methodology aims for customer satisfaction through early and continuous delivery of useful software components developed by an iterative process with a design point that uses the bare minimum requirement.
Q5) Project ____________ represent key dates when a certain group of activities must be performed.
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Chapter 10: Hardware and Software
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Q1) What is a foreign key?
A)A field that uniquely identifies a given record in a table
B)A primary key of one table that appears as an attribute in another table and acts to provide a logical relationship between the two tables
C)A table that uniquely identifies a given record in a field
D)A foreign key of one table that appears as an entity in another table and acts to provide a logical relationship between the two records
Q2) A field is composed of rows and columns that represent an entity.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is a technique for documenting the entities and relationships in a database environment?
A)Entity-relationship diagram
B)Data model
C)Database
D)Relational database model
Q4) ____________ expresses the specific number of instances in an entity.
Q5) A typical business may have hundreds of business ____________.
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Chapter 11: Networks and Telecommunications
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Q1) A (An) ____________ network topology has groups of star-configured workstations connected to a linear bus backbone cable.
Q2) What is network topology?
A)Occurs when the sending computer divides a message into a number of efficiently sized units called packets, each of which contains the address of the destination computer
B)Refers to an intelligent connecting device that examines each packet of data it receives and then decides which way to send it onward toward its destination
C)Refers to the geometric arrangement of the actual physical organization of the computers and other network devices) in a network
D)Refers to a model for applications in which the bulk of the back-end processing, such as performing a physical search of a database, takes place on a server, while the front-end processing, which involves communicating with the users, is handled by the clients
Q3) Describe TCP/IP along with its primary purpose.
Q4) ____________ is the capability of two or more computer systems to share data and resources, even though they are made by different manufacturers.
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Chapter 12: Designing Databases
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Q1) Define the relationship between operating system software and utility software.
Q2) What is an older secondary storage medium that uses a strip of thin plastic coated with a magnetically sensitive recording medium?
A)Magnetic medium
B)Magnetic tape
C)Hard drive
D)RAM
Q3) What is the arithmetic logic unit?
A)The actual hardware that interprets and executes the program (software) instructions and coordinates how all the other hardware devices work together
B)Equipment that interprets software instructions and literally tells the other hardware devices what to do, based on the software instructions
C)A type of CPU that can recognize as many as 100 or more instructions, enough to carry out most computations directly
D)Equipment that performs all arithmetic operations (e.g., addition and subtraction) and all logic operations (such as sorting and comparing numbers)
Q4) ____________ allows more than one piece of software to be used at a time.
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