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| Application Development Management |
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Managing activities such as systems analysis and design, prototyping, applications programming, project management, quality assurance, and system maintenance for all business/IT development projects |
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Having all of IT in one area of the organization, all working through a large mainframe computer and telecommunications networks
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Methods of allocating costs to end user departments on the basis of the information services rendered and information system resources utilized
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| Chief Information Officer |
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A senior management position that oversees all information technology for a firm concentrating on long-range information system planning and strategy
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A senior management position that oversees all information technology planning and deployment
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organizational unit that uses centralized computing resources to perform information processing activities for an organization
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Moving to smaller computing platforms, such as from mainframe systems to networks of personal computers and servers
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A conceptual design for the implementation of information technology in an organization, including its hardware, software, and network technology platforms, data resources and applications |
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Recruiting, training, and retaining qualified IS personnel |
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The involvement of business managers in the governance of IS functions and business professionals in the development of IS applications |
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A relocation of an organization's business process to a lower cost location overseas |
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Turning over all or part of an organization's information systems operation to outside contractors, know as systems integrators or service providers |
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The organizational responsibility to identify, introduce, and monitor the assimilation of new information system technologies into organizations |
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A management approach in which an organization integrates its global business activities through close cooperation and interdependence among its head quarters, operations, and international subsidiaries and its use of appropriate global information technologies |
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client services that function to support and manage end-user and workgroup computing |
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| Business/IT planning process |
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| The process of developing a company's business vision, strategies, and goals, as well as how the will be supported by the company's information technology architecture and implemented by its business application development process |
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| Business requirements caused by the nature of the industry and its competitive or environmental forces |
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| Managing information technology |
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| . Managing the joint development and implementation of business/IT strategies, the development of new business/IT applications and technologies, and the IT organization and the IT infrastructure |
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| System performance monitor |
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| H. These look after the processing of computer jobs, help develop a planned schedule of computer operations, and produce detailed statistics that are invaluable for effective planning and control of computers |
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