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| Sourcing involves many decisions. What is the first step? |
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| An application service provider (ASP) is a company that "rents" the use of an application to the customer. |
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| Which one of the following is NOT a driver for outsourcing? |
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| Working effectively w/ suppliers |
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| If a company decides to make the IT system they are using this type of sourcing. |
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| This is an overseas subsidiary of a company that is set up to serve the parent company and serves as an alternative to offshoring or nearshoring. |
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| The HBR article cautions that when senior managers to make decisions about what IT security and privacy risks they are willing to accept a company is vulnerable to... ? |
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| The HBR article recommends that for a business value of systems to be realized, a business executive should be accountable for every IT project, not just an IT executive. |
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| This is a balanced approach to managing a companies IT organization. |
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| Specifying the decision rights and accountability framework to encourage desirable behavior in using IT refers to the notion of... |
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| Business analytics is the term used to refer to the use of quantitative and predictive models and fact-based management to drive decisions. |
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| These are sites for collaboratively creating and managing tags for annotating and categorizing content. |
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| These are collections of data designed to support management decision making, and sometimes serve as repositories of organizational knowledge. |
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| Tom Davenport, in his HBR article, refers to companies that obsessively slice and dice data using analytical models to arrive at any strategic decisions as |
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| Movie studios and music companies increasingly have been using the following business intelligence techniques to decide how many copies of a new album media to produce in the first production run (sloan brief article) |
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| A real option refers to... |
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| the right without the obligation to do something in the future. |
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| A real option has the highest value with an increase in |
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| The starbucks example in the fichman-tiwana-keil article (berkley/hbr) illustrates |
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| different real options can simultaneously be embedded in a single project. |
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| This type of IT funding is probably the most fair as the costs associated with IT is based on use. |
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| The project triangle includes 3 sides: |
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| Which element of management is concerned with whether the project is proceeding properly? |
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| What dimension of project success asks the question "how high are the profits and how long will they last?" |
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| What dimensions of project success asks the question "does the project meet the established time and budget criteria?" |
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| the McKinsey article laments that the technical solutions are not the magic bullet to fix security problems because... |
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| new security technologies have shorter life spans because hackers cleverly and quickly devise ways around them |
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| According to the McKinsey Article, network security might be less important in some industries such as mining than in retail so companies in the former need to be less concerned about it. |
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| In a perfect world, information privacy guidelines should come from what level in a company? |
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| What tool is used to "block" information (specific kinds of packets) from entering or leaving a company network. |
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| Giving employees improper rights to view other employee's personal data is which type of managerial control concern. |
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