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Information System
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a group of components that interact to produce information
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What are the 5 components of IS?
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hardware, software, data, procedures, people
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What is MIS?
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The development and use of IS to achieve business goals and objectives
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What is content management?
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i dont know
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What is Version Management?
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track changes to documents and provide features to accommodate concurrent work (google docs)
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What is WIKI?
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wikipedia... content shared publicly and managed by the wikis users
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What is a business process?
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a network of activities, resources, facilities, and information that interact to achieve some business function
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What is operational, managerial, and strategical decision? When do you use them?
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1. day to day decisions (TPS)
2. allocation and utilization of resources (MIS) 3. organizational issues (EIS) |
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TPS vs MIS vs EIS
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transaction processing,
management information executive information |
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what is the difference between automation and augmentation?
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hardware/ software doing the work vs. humans doing most of the work
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What are Porter's 5 Forces?
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1. Bargaining power of customers
2. threat of substitutions 3. bargaining power of suppliers 4. Threat of new entrants 5. Rivalry |
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Four competitive strategies
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cost leader, most differentiation. They can employ it industry wide or not
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what is a value chain?
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a way of making value-creating activities
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what are the primary activities in value chain?
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marketing and sales,
in-bound logistics operations out bound logistics service |
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What is knowledge managements and its benefits?
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process of creating value from intellectual capital and sharing that knowledge with others.
fosters innovation boosts revenue improves customer service |
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what are the basic functions of content management
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documents
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What are the 4 components of a computer?
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Input, Processing, Output, Storage
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Firmware
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software installed to printers, speakers to become part of the device's memory
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Server farm vs. web farm
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server: large collection of computers
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open source community
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a community of people volunteering time to code and develop and maintaining Linux
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components of a database
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records, fields, files
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what is metadata?
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data that describes data to provide certain inormation
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