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ISDS 3100 Test OneManager - correct answer ✔✔a trained, knowledgeable worker who is in charge of a team and often
holds a master’s degree in management or business administration
General Manager - correct answer ✔✔Manager in charge of an entire organization or business unit
Fictional Manager - correct answer ✔✔Manager in charge of a functional area or team
Information system professionals - correct answer ✔✔Represent the group of people that in an
organization oversee the design, development, acquisition, implementation, and maintenance of the
firms information system resources
Moors Law - correct answer ✔✔If the current rate of improvement in the production process of
transistor-based microprocessors continued, the number of of transistors that could be etched on an
integrated circuit would double every one to two years
moors law implications - correct answer ✔✔Processing power and memory have increased
costs of computing power have declined
computers have become easier to use
Information System - correct answer ✔✔Formal, socio-technical, organizational system designed to
collect, process, store, and distribute information
Four components of IS - correct answer ✔✔technology, process, people, structure
Information Technology - correct answer ✔✔defined as hardware, software, and telecommunication
equipment. IT is the cornerstone of any modern IS
, Process - correct answer ✔✔Defined here as the series of steps necessary to complete a business
activity
Structure - correct answer ✔✔the organizational design and relationships within the information system
Purpose of information systems? - correct answer ✔✔Fulfilling organizational processing needs
• Improve efficiency and effectiveness. while reducing costs
• Achieve a (specified) Information System goal.
• Example: Grocery store
- To increase the efficiency and speed of customer check-out by using self-check out stations.
Firm strategy - correct answer ✔✔The manner in which the organization intends to achieve its
objectives.
Firm culture - correct answer ✔✔the collection of shared beliefs, expectations, and values
Infastructure - correct answer ✔✔the set of shared IT resources and services of the firm, constrains and
enables opportunities for future information systems implementations
external organizational environment - correct answer ✔✔the regulation
the competitive landscape
the general business and social trends
Three levels of organizational change - correct answer ✔✔First order: Automate
Second Order: Informate
Third Order: Transform
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