SBM4202 Week 9 Morning Class, T1, 2021

Increasingly organizations do consider IS/IT investments within the overall business investment or project portfolio, although many never actively compare the value of IS/IT options with other business investments

• Agree

• Disagree

• Maybe

• No opinion

This method calculates how long it is expected to take to recover the original investment

• Accounting return on investment

• Discounted cash flow

• Payback

• Discounted payback

This method allows for the reducing actual value of the cash flows over time by applying a negative interest rate to the future years to represent them as present values

• Internal rate of return

• Discounted payback

• Accounting return on investment

• Payback

A rate of discount is selected to apply for all investments, as with discounted payback, and the result of applying this to the cash flows over the investment life produces the residual value of the investment

(a)  

The main aims of investments in infrastructure technologies are to enable the business applications to perform successfully and create appropriate capabilities for the general-purpose use of IT tools in the short and medium term and to anticipate, as far as possible, longer-term but uncertain organization and business needs

• Agree

• Disagree

• Maybe

• No opinion

________ are responsible for planning, developing and managing the infrastructure are expected to provide a continually improving and expanding service to the business, in response to the demands of the business strategy and organizational evolution

• Managers

• Employees

• Business partners

• None of the above

_______are those associated with the chosen technologies and suppliers and their ability to deliver the functionality, resilience and performance required

• Financial risks

• Business change and organizational risks

• Technology risks

• Technical risks

Project duration is an example of:

• Technical risk factor

• Financial risk factor

• Organizational risk factor

• All of the above

_________investments are normally undertaken to improve existing essential processes and systems

• Strategic investments

• Support investments

• Financial investments

• Key operational investments

Short-term business pressures will change, projects will not proceed as planned, resources will not be available as expected, and new opportunities and requirements will emerge

• Agree

• Disagree

• Not sure

• No opinion