Information Systems - IS Strategy and Acquisition

Michael Porter's Five Forces model includes the following forces:

(Select all relevant)

• Threat of new entrants

• Threat of new customers

• Threat of substitute products or services

• Bargaining power of suppliers

• Bargaining power of buyers

Michael Porter identified the main business strategies. Select these from the following:

• Focus

• Lowering cost

• Lowering profit

• Differentiation

Business/IT alignment is...

(Select the correct definition from the following)

• The process of improving the organisational performance

• The process of buying new computers

• The process of developing a new business strategy

• The process in which an organisation uses IT to achieve business objectives

When a decision between developing or buying an information system is being made, which two factors are the most critical?

• Uniqueness of the application

• The number of users

• The cost of the project

• Complexity of the application

Procuring a new IS as COTS can have the following disadvantages:

(Select all relevant)

• It is typically more expensive than developing a system

• A COTS system will not potentially address all the requirements

• Little control over how a COTS system works

• Vendor may stop supporting the application

Procuring a new IS as COTS has typically the following advantages:

(Select all relevant)

• It saves time

• It is cheaper than bespoke development

• The system is tried and tested

• We don't need to collect and define the requirements for the system

What is End-user development?

(Select the correct definition)

• Involvement of end users of a new system in the process of its acquisition

• Training provided to the end users of a new system

• Activities and tools that allow end-users (not professional software developers) to develop new systems or create/modify software artefacts.

• Software development carried out by professionals with active involvement of the end users of the prospective system.

Select the stages of the procurement process for information systems.

• Defining the contract, service levels

• Providing training for users

• Defining the requirements

• Request for Tender