IT and Business Strategy
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Course Introduction
This course explores the intersection of information technology (IT) and business strategy, examining how organizations can leverage IT to achieve competitive advantage, drive innovation, and support strategic objectives. Students will analyze case studies to understand the role of IT in shaping business models, enabling digital transformation, and influencing industry dynamics. Topics include strategic alignment of IT and business goals, evaluation of emerging technologies, IT investment decisions, and the challenges of managing change in a technology-driven environment. By the end of the course, students will be equipped to formulate and implement effective IT strategies that support overall organizational success.
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Information Technology for Management 11th Edition by Efraim Turban
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Chapter 1: Disruptive IT Impacts Companies, competition,
and Careers
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Q1) How many times a day does the average American check their smartphone?
A)24
B)59 C)46
D)99
Answer: C
Q2) Workers with specialized technical knowledge and strong communications and business skills,as well as those with an MBA with a concentration in an IT area,will have the best prospects.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q3) Dropbox,Gmail,and Google Drive are examples of the Internet of Things.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) To maintain a competitive advantage,company IT operations needs to be __________ meaning having the ability to quickly integrate new business functions or to easily reconfigure software or apps.
Answer: Flexible
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Chapter 2: Information Systems, IT Architecture, Data
Governance, and Cloud Computing
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Q1) Despite the growth of social data,images and web documents,modern IT professionals must continue to place primary emphasis on management of structured,high quality data.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Cloud solutions typically require less bandwidth and place fewer demands on the organization's network or wide area network (WAN),reducing the risk of downtime.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The greatest strategic advantage of cloud computing solutions is that they _______________.
A)Increase agility and ability to quickly implement IT for competitive advantage.
B)Are easier for employees to use because of superior interfaces.
C)Are more secure than traditional software apps.
D)Have more features and functionality than traditional software apps.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Data Management, Business Intelligence, and Data Analytics
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Q1) The principle of ________ explains why most organizations cannot operate at peak performance with blind spots (lack of data availability)of 30 days or longer.Global financial services institutions rely on near-real-time data for peak performance.
A)data in context
B)90/90 data use
C)diminishing data value
D)data quality
Answer: C
Q2) After data are extracted from a database and processed to standardize their format,they are then loaded into a ________ and ready for analysis.
A)Synchronized,low-latency system
B)Decision support system
C)Data warehouse
D)DBMS
Answer: C
Q3) A ________ quantifies the relationship between variables,which reduces uncertainty.
Answer: decision model
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Chapter 4: Networks, Collaborative Technology, and the
Internet of Things
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Q1) ________ is the method by which data are sent from one device to another via a network.
A)API
B)5G
C)Bandwidth
D)IP
Q2) Five basic functions of business networks are communication,mobility,collaboration,relationships,and search.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following about IPv4 is false?
A)It has been Internet protocol for over three decades.
B)It is easy to configure and to change ISP.
C)It has reached the limits of its design.
D)It is being replaced with IPv6.
Q4) In April 2014,ARIN reported that IPv4 addresses were running out,and therefore enterprises needed to re-use or duplicate their IP addresses.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Cybersecurity and Risk Management Technology
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Q1) The smart strategy is to invest more to protect the company's most valuable assets rather than try to protect all assets equally.
A)True
B)False
Q2) __________ is a process designed to achieve reliable financial reporting in order to protect investors and comply with regulations.
Q3) In Cybersecurity terminology,a(n)_____________ is defined as the probability of a threat exploiting a vulnerability and the resulting cost.
Q4) Which of the following is not a type of administrative control for information assurance and risk management?
A)Fostering company loyalty
B)Immediately revoking access privileges of dismissed,resigned,or transferred employees
C)Instituting separation of duties by dividing sensitive computer duties among as many employees as economically feasible
D)Performing authorization and authentication
Q5) Describe spear phishing.How does spear phishing work?
Q6) Indicators of fraud are called __________.
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Chapter 6: Search, Semantic, and Recommendation Technology
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Q1) Best of the Web is an example of a manually developed,categorized listing of web sites used when conducting searches on a narrow topic.This is called a
A)Crawler search engine
B)Web directory
C)Indexer module
D)Web bot
Q2) Payments are made to the search engine service for each click on organic search listings.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Advertisers bid on having their ads appear when someone searches on one of their keywords.
A)True
B)False
Q4) ________ tools are used by employees to search for and retrieve information related to their work in a manner that complies with the organization's information-sharing and access control policies.
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Q5) Low ________and long dwell times on a Web site correlate with high content quality.
Chapter 7: Web 20 and Social Technology
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Q1) Recommend two ways in which organizations can use enterprise mashups and/or social media monitoring tools to improve business performance.Explain the benefits of each of your recommendations.
Q2) With social media,privacy rights are too easily abused.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A mashup is a web application that combines information from two or more sources and presents this information in a way that creates a new benefit or service.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A fast growing social technology sector involves _______,which are used to track conversations taking place on social media sites.
A)Crowdsourcing
B)Groundswell services
C)Social monitoring services
D)RSS technology
Q5) Most high end social media monitoring tools report information using a(n)________ interface,which graphically represents the data it collects.
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Chapter 8: Retail, e-Commerce, and Mobile Commerce Technology
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Q1) What are short codes? Identify three business uses of short codes.
Q2) Corporate ________,also called corporate purchasing,deals with the transactional elements of buying products and services by an organization for its operational and functional needs.
Q3) The discount retailer Target feels threatened by customers who ________.
A)showroom its stores using mobile devices
B)comment on social media
C)use multiple brand-based touchpoints
D)post QR codes on blogs
Q4) ________ provides online banking in 60 countries.
A)Citi Online
B)Cyber Chase
C)HSBCnet
D)AmazonApp
Q5) When customers interact with a brand using their mobile devices,information is collected about customers that can be used to optimize the interactions.
A)True
B)False
Q6) B2B comprises about _______ percent of e-commerce dollar volume.
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Chapter 9: Functional Business Systems
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Q1) One factor contributing to the growth of TMS is the need to replace legacy transportation systems because they are inflexible,difficult to integrate with other newer systems,and expensive to maintain.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Each of the following is a basic functional area that is supported by information systems: manufacturing and production,________,finance,IT,sales and marketing,and HR.
A)Administrative
B)Accounting
C)Quality control
D)Organizational
Q3) ________ are information systems designed to support the planning and the implementation process across the entire organization.
A)Business Management Systems
B)Functional Management Systems
C)Business Information Systems
D)Functional Business Systems
Q4) A weakness in a(n)_______ is a major cause of fraud.
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Chapter 10: Enterprise Systems
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Q1) The greatest challenges when implementing enterprise systems are due to _____.
A)interfacing legacy systems
B)vendors
C)change management
D)end-users
Q2) ________ is a formula for estimating the dollar value,or worth,of a long-term relationship with a customer.
Q3) Which of the following descriptions about ERP failures is not true?
A)Several of the best companies have suffered devastating consequences from ERP failures that had led to multi-million dollar losses,bankruptcy,or lawsuits.
B)Most often,ERP failures are eventually fixed and remain in use,which gives the false impression that the ERP was successful from the start.
C)The success-as well as failure-of ERP depends on organizational and technological factors that occur prior to,during,and after the implementation.
D)Vendor blogs,white papers,and YouTube posts are good sources of objective data for selecting an ERP solution.
Q4) ERP success depends on several key factors being met.List three key factors.
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Chapter 11: Data Visualization and Geographic Information Systems
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Q1) A simple process called ________ can convert postal addresses to geospatial data that can then be measured and analyzed.
Q2) Dashboard design is a critical factor because business users need to be able to understand the significance of the dashboard information at a glance and have the capability to drill down to one or more levels of detail.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following statements about data analytics and visualization is false?
A)The ultimate goal of data analytics is to drive profits,and often that depends on learning how to manage assets.
B)It is easier to make sense of data than it is to collect the data.
C)Companies and/or entire industries are using data visualization and interactivity to improve decision speed and performance often with mobile displays.
D)Because of the demanding pace of their decisions,capital markets professionals use visualization for risk analysis,compliance monitoring,and fraud detection.
Q4) Tag clouds represent the relative ________ of words and terms by their sizes.
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Chapter 12: IT Strategy, Sourcing, and Strategic Technology Trends
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Q1) Which of the following is not one of the major tasks of IT steering committees?
A)Enforce SLAs and other contracts
B)Allocate scarce resources
C)Set and evaluate performance metrics
D)Make staffing decisions
Q2) The balanced scorecard (BSC)is a strategic measurement and management methodology and a tool.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Most business leaders believe that IT is critical to their companies' strategic success and all of them work with IT to achieve that success.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Three types of value drivers are operational,financial,and sustainability.Give two examples of each of these types of business value drivers.
Q5) One of the skills CIOs need to improve IT-business alignment and governance is political savvy.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Systems Development and Project Management
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Q1) ________ is a presentation or document that outlines the justification for the start-up and funding of a project.
Q2) The money already spent on the project,or ________,should not be considered in the decision.
Q3) The ________ defines the project plan and is a legal contract used to document the agreement between parties.
A)Business case
B)Project plan review
C)Statement of work
D)Work breakdown structure
Q4) Baseline is a specification of the project plan that has been formally reviewed and agreed upon.It can be updated or changed through casual or informal change control processes.
A)True
B)False
Q5) During project analysis,IT projects should be examined holistically-that is,in combination to identify investment synergies.This approach is known as ________ management.
Q6) Identify and explain two types of feasibility testing.
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Chapter 14: IT Ethics, Privacy and Sustainability
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Q1) __________ or sniffing out and mapping the physical location of Wi-Fi routers is a hacking technique,an invasion of privacy,and an information security risk.
A)IP monitoring
B)Spear fishing
C)Wardriving
D)Snooping
Q2) Private content that uninhibited teenagers with bad judgment had posted online
A)will be archived and inaccessible after 12 months
B)is not retained
C)cannot be made to disappear
D)can only be purged by the individual,according to the site's removal procedures
Q3) 3D-bioprinted human organs may be subject to ________.
A)conflicting healthcare regulations
B)conflicting religious,political,moral,and financial interests
C)skills of bio-engineers
D)technology limitations
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