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A business function in an organization that includes people, a process, data, hardware, and software
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MIS
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Name three reasons for MIS
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• Over-reliance of technology
• Outsourcing • Division between the functional and IT people |
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this IT culture does not share information between departments and is used as influence over others
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Info- Functional
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in this IT culture information is shared only on a need to know basis
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info-sharing
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when employees initiate finding information form each other
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info-inquiring
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This is the ideal IT culture because information is openly shared across departments
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info-discovery
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Percentage that systems are not used
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75%
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Everyone is focused in the same direction and on the same goal
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Alignment
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employees are responsive and run the business fast
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Agility
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the first stage of planning where feasibility studies, technical, scheduling economics and operations are all talked about
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Planning
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The phase where the Requirements Definition Document is designed
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Analysis
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technical diagrams and detailed processes both part of this phase
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Design
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a system with feedback is
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open
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a system without feedback
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closed
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what is a performance matrix
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when you compare actual output to a standard output
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how do you find variance
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by subtracting actual output to standard output
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when each activity based phase is performed
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waterfall
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the process of creating a prototype, involving system users in analysis, design and development phases, and collect business requirement
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RAD
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this method breaks projects into tiny phases and develops can not continue until first phase is complete
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Extreme Programming
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Customer-satisfaction through early and continuous delivery/uses tiny projects
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agile
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uses small, 30-day intervals to achieve goals
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scrum
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What is a general name for the business function and academic discipline covering the application of people, technologies, and procedures to solve business problems?
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Management information systems
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What is data that has been converted into meaningful and useful context?
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Information
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Which information culture encourages employees across departments to be open to new insights about crisis and radical changes and seek ways to create competitive advantages?
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Information-discovery culture
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What is the systems development life cycle?
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The overall process for developing information systems from planning and analysis through implementation and maintenance
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What is the analysis phase in the SDLC?
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Involves analyzing end-user business requirements and refining project goals into defined functions and operations of the intended system
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What emphasizes extensive user involvement in the rapid and evolutionary construction of working prototypes of a system to accelerate the systems development process?
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RAD methodology
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