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MIS- CHAPTERS 1-4
mis 250 paul clay
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Business
Undergraduate 2
05/03/2010

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1 In chapter one, computer based information systems were described as?
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combo of hardware, software, telcommthat people use to collect, create, and distribute data.
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1 another way to call a knowledge worker is?
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New economy, network society, the digital world
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1 What IS job is titled as a person who primary responsibility is directly doing maintance on an info system
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Systems analyst
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1 What is classified as business knowledge and skills?
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Management, comm, social
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1 what is Systems intergration?
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connecting seperect info systems and data to improve business processes and decision making
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2 what is considered open-source software
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Linux, firefox, openoffice.org
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2 assembly plents on in Mexico that are goods for the US
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Maquiladoras
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2 Embargoes are considered as which part of challenges operating in the digital world.
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regulatory
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2 which cultural dimension is described as " the extent to which a culture focuses on quality vs. quantity
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Life Focus
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2 reflects the extent to which a society valuses the position of individual versus the position of a group
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individualsim/collectibism
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2 which strategy is used to decide central control vs decentrlized?
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transnational bus strategy
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2 transnational business strategy?
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international bus strategy that allows compaines to use decentrlized organ, while reamping economics of scale by centralization
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2 multidomestic strategy?
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cultural charactertic that help understand risk taking nature of culture
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2 informing?
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using internet to fill yourself with info
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2 globe 3.0?
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stage of goloblization encompassing virtually every nation and shrinking the world
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2 offshore outsourcing?
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the opposite to offshoreing.
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2 nearshoring?
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shipping jobs to low-wage country that is near by
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2 uncertanty avoidance
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plant with facts to assume a properbsion haha
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3 three ways to inprove the value chain?
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improving procurement processes, min marketing expenditures, selling more products
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3 the process of building and presenting the set of arguments that show IS is adding value?
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Bus Case
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3 refers to theemergence of disruptive innovations that undermine effective management practices
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innovator's dilemma
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3 What is a process of choosing, matching, executing and assessing innovative technologies called?
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E-Business Innovation Cycle
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3 Value chain analysis?
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process of anyalizing an organizations acttivites to determine value
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3 Total Cost of ownership?
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the costof owning and operating a system including the total cost as well as ongoing costs
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3 Productivity paradox
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the observation that productivity increases at a rate lower then what is expected. ie web surfing
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3 Value chain?
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set of primary and support activities were value is added
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3 E-Business Innovation Cycle
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the extent to which a organization uses IT in innovaative ways to derive value over time
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3 Proxy Variable
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Alt places for measurement
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3 Innovator's Dilemma
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the notion that disruptive innovations can cause established firms or industries to lose market dominance, often lead to failure
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4 Speical way of on-demand computing which is tpically used to slove large-scale problems
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Grid
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4 what is a type of wireless medium?
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Infarred
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4 What is the protocal of the internet?
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TCP/IP
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4 what does URL stand for?
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Uniform resource locator
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what method is used to effectively process customer transcations?
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OLTP
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Utility computing
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on-demand computing were things are rented out
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4 Systems Unit?
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The transmission capacity of a computer or comm channel
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4 What is OLTP?
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tech used for immeditate automated response to requests of the users
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4 System Unit
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holds the electronic components of a computer
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4 OLTP
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tech use to automate response quicker
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4 Bandwidth
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the transmission capacity of a computer
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