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14 Cards in this Set
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Efficiency
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Do Things Right
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Effectiveness
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Do the Right Things
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Software Represents
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Information Requirements
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Strategic Information Systems (SISs) are to be used at which level of the organization?
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Any level!
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Dells built to order system is an example of what Information system?
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Strategic Information System
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What do Strategic Information Systems do?
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Changes the goals, processes, products, services or environmental relationships to help the organization gain a competitive advantage
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Models for identifying Strategic Opportunities
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Competitive Forces Model and The Value Chain Model
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The Competitive Forces Model defined...
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Model used to describe the interaction of external influences, specifically threats and opportunities, that affect an organization's strategy and ability to compete.
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What are the threats and opportunities that face a firm (external elements of S.W.O.T. made by Michael Porter)
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1. Traditional Competitors 2. New market entrants 3. Substitute products 4. Suppliers 5. Customers
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Peter Drucker's Analogy of an Orchestra
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Influence of IS technology on Organization Structure
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A flatter structure of an Organization means...
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Less Bureaucracy (Reduced # of middle managers) Local Autonomy (Empowered Employees)
Broadened span of Control (Controlling more workers spread over large distances) |
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Separating work from location...
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Allows tight coordination of geographically dispersed workers
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Enterprise Systems
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Organization-wide ISs that integrate key business processes with a common central DataBase so that information can flow seamlessly between different parts of the organization. (Very Difficult to build)
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Enterprise systems will never bind firms to outdated business processes and systems
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False
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